Phoebus wrote:
>>For the Q40/Q60 this could be solved by preparing a special Linux ramdisk
>>with only the tools needed for file transfer/CD-writing and a script to
>>simplify things. This package could be used by a SMSQ/E user even without
>>installing or even knowing Linux... only the overhead to boot the Linux
>>kernel.
>
>Ditto. I suppose this also means that Qx0 Linux doesn't clean up the ram
>(kind of a warm restart) when booting up? How would the RAM disk protection
>occur while going from SMS to Linux?
The "Linux ramdisk" I meant was only to carry the necessary Linux files.
Not the actual data for the CD, which can be accessed under Linux directly
from the SMSQ/E partition.
Under SMSQ/E this "Linux ramdisk" is a file, not a ramdisk. When starting
Linux it gets copied into RAM. The whole purpose would be not to have to
install Linux. A user would only need the kernel, the loader and this
ramdisk filled with the Linux progs and nice scripts.
>And would that work in QDOS Classic?
You could do it from QDOS Classic, but that would mean changing floppy disks.
Q40 Linux can not access Qubide Partitions and Qubide Partitions can not
even exist on one harddisk with SMSQ/E and Linux. Qubide is incompatible to
all but itself and semi-commercial closed source software.
Peter
