Hello everyone, is someone here alrealy played with umsdos ? i mean,
im stuck in that someone know where i can find a complet tutorial on
how to install slackware 10.0 under umsdos every howto i found on that
just explain what umsdos i or if someone know how to please reply me
im desaspered
Thanks..
Andy

Hi,
I am running Slack 10.0 on a umsdos filesystem.
Installed it from Zipslack (which is on CD 4 of the distribution).
See http://www.slackware.com/zipslack/ and
http://www.slackware.com/zipslack/install.php
I also have Windows 98 on my PC.
I installed Slack 10 from file zipslack.zip in folder C:\linux whilst
running Windows.
Configure the file C:\linux\linux.bat to suit your disk drive configuration
Then start the PC in DOS mode, and boot Linux by running the file
C:\linux\linux.bat
Having got Zipslack installed, running and configured to see my CD drive and
network,
I installed most other packages - compiler, X, Gnome, KDE... -using
installpkg.
And also downloaded and installed OpenOffice.
All running happily on umsdos file system on 350Mhz Pentium II.

Then setup the PC to have selectable dual-boot - Windowsor Linux - by
configuring C:\config.sys
See http://www.faqs.org/docs/Linux-mini/...n95-98-ME.html

Good luck...



in directory linux.on my C; I also have Winodws 98alongside Windows 98.
First thing I did was to intsall Zipslack - it's on CD4 of the distribution.

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Look at Zipslack.

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Thanks for anwsering, yeah i alrealy know zipslack is based on the old
doslinux, and diliux "dlx" well is not really customizatble as the
full one , and plus if you know how to do the umsdos thing like i need
to, you can do it with other distro, "redhat, debian" alrealy able to
be booted from loadlin.exe, and soon freebsd will be hehe that why i
wanna know how to, so you can have 4 distro like c:\linux1 c:\linux2
c:\linux3 etc etc zipslack limit you to c:\linux that it well if
you have other idea im open to hear Thanks again


On Thu, 22 Jul 2004 23:23:59 +0100, "geep"
<geep(at)boursorama(dot)com> wrote:

>Hi,
>I am running Slack 10.0 on a umsdos filesystem.
>Installed it from Zipslack (which is on CD 4 of the distribution).
>See http://www.slackware.com/zipslack/ and
>http://www.slackware.com/zipslack/install.php
>I also have Windows 98 on my PC.
>I installed Slack 10 from file zipslack.zip in folder C:\linux whilst
>running Windows.
>Configure the file C:\linux\linux.bat to suit your disk drive configuration
>Then start the PC in DOS mode, and boot Linux by running the file
>C:\linux\linux.bat
>Having got Zipslack installed, running and configured to see my CD drive and
>network,
>I installed most other packages - compiler, X, Gnome, KDE... -using
>installpkg.
>And also downloaded and installed OpenOffice.
>All running happily on umsdos file system on 350Mhz Pentium II.
>
>Then setup the PC to have selectable dual-boot - Windowsor Linux - by
>configuring C:\config.sys
>See http://www.faqs.org/docs/Linux-mini/...n95-98-ME.html
>
>Good luck...
>
>
>
> in directory linux.on my C; I also have Winodws 98alongside Windows 98.
>First thing I did was to intsall Zipslack - it's on CD4 of the distribution.
>
>

Ah - now I think I understand.
You want to try to install several different linuxes in directories like
c:\linux1 c:\linux2 etc...

I also wanted to do that, but I don't think that it's possible. (I tried
it - it didn't work).
(But if somebody else knows how to I'd like to know).

The HOW-TO -
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/doc...SDOS-HOWTO.pdf -
says in 3.1 "All Linux files are created in a DOS subdirectory called
linux," and doesn't mention any alternative name possibility.

I took a quick look at the source code from
http://packages.qa.debian.org/u/umsdos.html,
and it seems that the directory name "linux" (and length - 5) are hard-coded
in umsdos_fs.h as
UMSDOS_PSDROOT_NAME (and UMSDOS_PSDROOT_LENGTH)

Maybe change UMSDOS_PSROOT_NAME and create a new version of umsdos for each
Linux you want to install ? (Personally I don't want to risk trashing my
filesystem, so I am not going to try this).

Else create a new DOS partition for each version - resulting in D:\linux,
E:\linux etc.

I have both Slack9.1 and Slack10 installed on umsdos, and just change the
directory name from linux9 or linux10 to linux (in DOS) before I boot to
linux. Not elegant - but it works.
I did think about setting up multi-boot from config.sys (Win98,
Slaxk9, Slack10) and writing a script in autoexec.bat to automate the
changing of directory names. (You probably need a way to remember which
version of
Linux was booted last). But I didn't pursue this, but I think it's less
risky than changing umsdos_fs.h and recompiling.

Now found the source of the umsdos files on the CD - Disk 3 has them.