Clarence Verge wrote: > > I'm still afraid to follow your instruction. > What is going to happen ? Loadlin boots zimage (Linux kernel), creates a 4meg ramdisk and puts baslinux.gz (root filesystem) into the ramdisk. > Even ASIDE from fear of damage to my already installed > files, No fear. It won't touch your files. > I need to know what to expect. I assume something is > going to unpack itself and make camp on my HD. No unpacking, no camping. It doesn't write to your harddrive. In fact, BasicLinux doesn't even know that you have a harddrive. Everything happens in the ramdisk. When you reset your computer everything disappears. > If it isn't DOS file system compatible, by what means > can I remove it ? Delete boot.bat, loadlin.exe, zimage, and baslinux.gz. > Could you give us ALL some idea of the differences ? UMSDOS would use about 5meg of HDD space (instead of 2meg). UMSDOS would run significantly slower than the ramdisk. UMSDOS couldn't be used for floppy version. UMSDOS is easier to modify and customize. UMSDOS has more RAM available. Baslinux.gz is just a compressed Linux filesystem, which is loaded into the ramdisk when you run boot.bat. If we were using UMSDOS, we would need to gunzip baslinux.gz and transfer it to the UMSDOS structure (which would write hundreds of files to your DOS HDD). Currently baslinux.gz is parked on your HDD, but it doesn't use the HDD. It would be just as happy parked on a CDrom. I hope this has reassured you. BasicLinux is very, very safe. Cheers, Steven ______________________________________________ http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~ichi/baslinux.zip
