Klaus Hameyer wrote:
>
> I had used "tar -zxvf joe" (which works ok on RH6.2
BasicLinux uses a slim version of tar which does not
understand the z parameter. This is easily accommodated
by doing gunzip first.
> I understand the size limitations of BASLINUX. Is there
> a way of increasing the ram0 initial size,
The size and number of potential ramdisks is fixed when
a Kernel is compiled. I have considered recompiling
the BasicLinux kernel to use an 8meg ramdisk, but this
would increase the minimum requirements to 16meg RAM.
However, I am reluctant to shut out computers with
8meg-12meg RAM (fairly common on old 486s).
> Another unrelated question: it's great being able to get
> to BASLINUX from DOS. Is there a way to get back to DOS
> without rebooting the machine?
While in BasicLinux, you can mount a DOS partition and
edit, delete, copy, rename and move DOS files. But you
can't execute them (although you can execute a Linux
executable sitting on a DOS partition).
Cheers,
Steven
