Kenneth Alan Boyd Ramsay wrote: > > Does your current BasicLinux recognize the XP filesystem?
Nope. That capability is not available for the 2.0.34 kernel. Hopefully, a more up-to-date kernel will be able to do that. > You could use it to install the next version from a directory > on the XP partition. That is my hope. Kernel boots directly from the floppy (no loadlin.exe, no LILO) and runs a *very* minimal root filesystem with loop capability. Mount the BL2 image from /dev/hda1 and chroot. I have actually done all those steps experimentally *except* for the winXP bit. I do not have a kernel that has the abiity to read the winXP filesystem. Even if I can find such a kernel, it remains to be seen whether such a kernel will fit on one floppy (with all the other stuff). > How hard would such a partition be to create? It is unrealistic to expect winXP users to create a new FAT partition just to try BasicLinux. The only realistic approach is to create a mini-Linux that will work on what they've got. Cheers, Steven To unsubscribe from SURVPC send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe SURVPC in the body of the message. Also, trim this footer from any quoted replies. More info can be found at; http://www.softcon.com/archives/SURVPC.html
