On Thu, 26 Oct 1995, Bruce Perens wrote:
> > Is syslinux-1.20-0.deb going to do something for me? > > It lets you create boot diskettes like the installation boot disk. > I'm hoping that the next installation root disk will create that kind > of boot diskette rather than the one it makes now, which doesn't understand > the boot command line. The disks use MSDOS filesystems. They can display > up to 10 pages of help and boot a Linux kernel from an MSDOS file. > > > Should I insall it? > You probably won't need it, unless you are having booting problems or want > to help develop the installation disks (and we could sure use some people > willing to do _that_). Well, I went ahead and installed it anyway :-) I read the readme files. This package is way cool! The first thing that came to mind was: "Now I can test a new kernel or kernel driver without having to take the chance of bunging up my current system!" After which, about half a dozen uses jumped to mind. Among others, I can build a boot disk that will boot linux up on a dos machine and download stuff from my linux machine in a comfortable environment! Thanks for the effort Bruce! YHS, Dale P.S. Of course now I have to actually do something with it :-)
