Re: kernel fission was: msdos/umsdos support?

[Shane Kerr]

On Thu, 11 Feb 1999, David C.S. Prior wrote:

> Would it be possible to have a large file present in the root directory
> of a FAT partition which was in fact an image of a Minix Filesystem. 
> That way, people could have ELKS co-existing with MS-DOS (or another
> DOS) on the same hard drive.  The part of the code that read the Minix
> image would surely need to know virtually nothing about FAT and so the
> code size could be kept to a minimum (perhaps the user could even tell
> it where the image file lives on the FAT partition to further reduce
> necessary code) 

Minix apparently supports just this capability.  

Shane