UMSDOS is an implementation of a unix-like filesystem on top of a FAT filesystem, where each file would reside as a separate file in the FAT filesystem, but this shouldn't be necessary if you're doing an actual 'disk image' within another partition. In the latter case, your image would probably contain an ext2 or ext3 filesystem, and the host partition should be able to be NTFS or any other type of partition that Linux can mount read/write. I'm not sure what the status of NTFS is right now, though -- it used to work for read/write on the 2.2 kernels, but then it dropped down to read-only support with the introduction of 2.4, and I'm not sure if read-write functionality has been fixed yet.
Mounting an image on another filesystem is accomplished via loopback, I believe. You'd probably need an initrd image to get it all set up. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jason Pepas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, November 24, 2002 9:13 PM Subject: Re: [Siglinux] >>Question<< > and if you don't have partition magic, there is the option of creating a > filesystem inside a file, and installing linux there. I haven't tried it, > but Winlinux will do this automatically. I am not sure how to do it with > other distros. ah, nevermind. winlinux is not supported under NT, 2000, or XP. Probably due to the fact that umsdos is for fat32 only (ie, not NTFS). -jason _______________________________________________ Siglinux mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.utacm.org/mailman/listinfo/siglinux _______________________________________________ Siglinux mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.utacm.org/mailman/listinfo/siglinux
