Bruce Perens writes: >From: Simon Shapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> And why do we want this brain dead file system (which even M$ does >> not use for its own 1980 eras OS's) to boot a Unix O/S with? > >Because it is the lowest common denominator, and it would let people >alter the bootstrap floppy from a non-Linux system before they booted >it. This is sometimes convenient. Since it's just the bootstrap >floppy, we don't have to worry about supporting it as much as we >would if we supported having the entire system on a umsdos disk. Some >people are going to try that, I guess.
Actually I think it would be a good thing if we could support Debian entirely over UMSDOS - being able to run Linux without having to mess around repartitioning hard discs is going to make a lot of people a lot more willing to try it. -- Richard Kettlewell [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.elmail.co.uk/staff/richard/
