OK! I submit. I was wrong.
FAT is great for loading and booting floppies.
I still maintain that it is a disaster for any serious OS as a storage
medium. Even when we fake users and permissions.
I am stubborn in a way :-)
Simon
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Richard Kettlewell:
Actually I think it would be a good thing if we could support
Debian entirely over UMSDOS - being able to run Linux without
having to mess around repartitioning hard discs is going to make a
lot of people a lot more willing to try it.
Unfortunately, UMSDOS isn't rea
Simon Shapiro:
And why do we want this brain dead file system (which even M$ does
not use for its own 1980 eras OS's) to boot a Unix O/S with?
Please note that we shouldn't drop a user base just because Microsoft
has stopped supporting them.
More to the point, while "DOS" is a lousy operati
Bruce Perens writes:
>From: Simon Shapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> And why do we want this brain dead file system (which even M$ does
>> not use for its own 1980 eras OS's) to boot a Unix O/S with?
>
>Because it is the lowest common denominator, and it would let people
>alter the bootstrap floppy fr
From: Simon Shapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> And why do we want this brain dead file system (which even M$ does not
> use for its own 1980 eras OS's) to boot a Unix O/S with?
Because it is the lowest common denominator, and it would let people
alter the bootstrap floppy from a non-Linux system before
And why do we want this brain dead file system (which even M$ does not
use for its own 1980 eras OS's) to boot a Unix O/S with?
Simon
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Simon Shapiro Bullet
I've heard other reports of UMSDOS interacting badly with W95's long
filename stuff. I'd put it down as a `backup first' thing for now -
though I don't use either of them.
> umsdos with windows '95 filesystem might be a problem... With
> linux's msdos-fs I were not able to delete a director
Juhana K Kouhia:
umsdos with windows '95 filesystem might be a problem... With
linux's msdos-fs I were not able to delete a directory; only got
'directory is not empty'-message even the directory were empty.
Are you sure this is because of w95?
You can also get a directory into this sta
From: Juhana K Kouhia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> umsdos with windows '95 filesystem might be a problem...
Good point.
What is necessary is for umssync to synchronize a Windows 95
filesystem, and umsdos to write long file names back where MS can find
them and hash short names the same way MS does. Ums
umsdos with windows '95 filesystem might be a problem...
With linux's msdos-fs I were not able to delete a directory;
only got 'directory is not empty'-message even the directory
were empty.
Juhana
Actually, I was thinking of using umsdos rather than minix as the
filesystem for the installation root floppy. I haven't tried it yet.
We'd need a package with the umsdos utilities (there's umssync, which
synchronizes the directory contents with the "extended" directory
after MSDOS has changed them
We should consider adding umsdos support to Debian 1.0. Alot of
people ask about it. We shouldn't present umsdos as an alternative to
installing Debian "for real", but we could at least give our users the
option of using it.
(It might also be useful as a "try it before you install it for real"
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