Re: Is ELKS a good idea for teaching O.S.

[Prem Setu]

Nicola Girardi wrote: > On Sun, Apr 09, 2000 at 11:46:54AM +0530, Prem Setu wrote: > | dosemu is enough for Elks. I did not try yet but it must be light and fast. > | If someone want to run Elks on non x86, then she need Bochs.... > > Is there anywhere a howto/guide to set up dosemu to boot elks? Ah!.... I was almost writing my self..... I will try my self soon. but if someone has information how to install / boot Elks in DosEmu, I am happy to hear.... This is only info I have.... ------- this is extruct of past discussion ------------------------ > From: Mario Frasca <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Kalogirou Harilaos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Date: Sun, 19 Dec 1999 12:28:08 +0100 > Subject: Re: VMware > > > Hi Kalagirou, > > > I tried DOSEMU(ver 0.99.10) > > but nothing, it stops while reading the boot disk with message > > You're running Redhat, too, aren't you? I've had this same problem with > the dosemu 0.99.<something> coming with RH6.0. that is a development > version, not necessarily a stable one. what I did was uninstalling it > and downloading 0.98.8.0. now I start my dosmachine in a xterm like > this: > xtermdos [-A] > (the -A is to boot it from a boot disk.) > > > I use ELKS kernel version 0.0.81 > > and Dev86 version 0.14.9 > > this is exactly what I'm using, and it works as described above. > > hope this helps. > > Mario. > Thank you Mario, meanwhile I found "bochs" an i386 emulator which runs fine. I'll use that for the moment it seems to work ok if I exclude some "@" appearing randomly at the bottom of the screen! If more problems evolve I will switch to DOSEMU. Harry "Alegria Loinaz. Inaki" wrote: > Hi, > > I am a new participant in the list and after reading FAQs I have a couple > of questions: > - Is ELKS able to run executable programs from standard Linux? > - Is possible with ELKS to read the File System in the hard disk (I > suposse no, but I donエt know sure) > > I am looking for a simple OS to use teaching (modifying the kernel) and > despite simplicity is very important, I'd like to be possible to load > pre-compiled programs and to have a file system in hard disk. > > Is ELKS a good choice for this or it is better an old version of the Linux > kernel? > > Thanks in advance > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > Inaki Alegria > University of the Basque Country > 649 Postakutxa, 20080 Donostia > Basque Country > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > -- > Nicola Girardi aka nick, nikke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Key fingerprint = 5D9E ED36 C2E9 EF8F C4B6 25C2 3FF4 E5A2 27A7 83B9 > GnuPG Key at http://agnes.dida.physik.uni-essen.de/~nicola/gpg-plan > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Part 1.2Type: application/pgp-signature love setu