On Tue, Feb 29, 2000 at 10:41:47PM +0000, Howard Schwartz wrote:
>
> I am impressed with how unbelieably easy this one is to install, for a
> Linux, and how many features and programs it includes. However, I dont
> see much of a real advantage in these kinds of programs that try to
> coexist with Microsoft: We all know the problems of installing another
> pseudo-OS or shell ``on top of'' dos from your years with win 3x. And,
> if you really have 500 megs of free space on a disk partition, it is
> not big deal to use one of the freeware disk resizers and make that
> space into an independently format-able partition. My guess is that
> the ``real'' Linux filesystems will work better and more trouble free.
>
I guess the real advantage is if you just want to experiment with Linux.
A person could look around, play with it some and then if they decide
Linux/Unix is way too much for them <grin> they could easily remove it.
Definitely right about a ``real'' Linux filesystem being better.
My current[1] Linux usage started out with DOSLinux 4.x a few years ago.
It was UMSDOS so the Linux setup would suffer right along with any
disk problems I might have had (fairly common when using the AOL software
it seemed). At times this would cause loss of Linux files because
special hidden files used by the UMSDOS system were gone or trashed
after doing a scandisk or NDD fix-up.
After getting fed up with that as well as performance problems linked
to running on FAT16 I went about creating a separate partition for
Linux with its own filesystem (this required installing Dragon Linux
since DOSLinux didn't include utilities for disk management).
Of course the loop system doesn't have that problem since its one big
file as far as DOS/Windows is concerned, I think.
I believe all the Linux-on-DOS distros do the loop thing now.
[1] As opposed to originally trying out Linux back in `92.
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