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Re: [Freedos-user] Determining partition types (NTFS, etc)

Alain Mouette
Mon, 08 Mar 2010 09:23:21 -0800

Geraldo Netto escreveu:
>>> btw, why not make freedos installation using linux?
>> There was once a very interestick pack: Linux kernel + dosemu + FreeDOS,
>> bash was on a secondary console.
>>
>> It would be easy to make that now, using LFS + busybox and an automatic
>> HW detection (there is a packege for that) :)
>>
>> and I am sure that it would help a lot of people that still want to use
>> DOS programs.

> of course your approach doing freedos on top of dosemu on top of linux
> would be really nice too :)

any volunteers, this is more a LFS (linux From Scratch) problem...

> but my main concern is about 8086 guys who uses freedos, they wont be
> able to run such linux distro either for installation or any other form and i
> guess, they are reading this msg, right? :P
> 8086 support/compatibility is a premise...

Completely not understadable :( I can only say that compatibility will 
be to the estent of DOSEMU, not more that that...

Alain

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