Reed Wade writes:
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>
> ok, imagine I want to install elks on
> an 8086 machine which runs dos from
> rom and has a small flash memory disk
> set up to act like a dos disk.
>
> http://www.jkmicro.com/summaryV25.html
>
This machine looks really interesting. I would quite like to get my hands
on one and see if I could get ELKS on it.
> I imagine adding msdos filesystem support
> we be the first step... Then a loadlin sort
> of thing.
Steffen Gabel ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) has a package on his homepage that
loads elks from msdos
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Lakes/4535/
but it requires an image of low memory obtained by booting with a floppy
which obviously cannot be done on this machine. You may be able to find a
way to get the loader to work without such an image. Have a look at the
code and see what it does.
MD-DOS filesystem support would be more tricky as there is no support in
the kernel for this yet. Whould it be possible to overwrite the flash disk
with an elks filesystem, or even blow a new ROM image with ELKS on it
instead of DOS?
Al
