On Tue, 27 Aug 2002, Steven C. Darnold wrote:

> Even two floppies is clunky.  I definitely don't want to
> go to three.  Ideally, I would like to find a way to boot
> Linux from winXP using no more than one floppy.

Does your current BasicLinux recognize the XP filesystem?  You could
use it to install the next version from a directory on the XP partition.

> > mounts the root off the tail of the disk image or a second
> > disk, then mounts the FAT partition
>
> If winXP had a FAT partition, there would be no problem.
> Boot Linux from one floppy and get compressed filesystem
> from the FAT partition.  However, AFAIK winXP doesn't
> usually have a FAT partition.

How hard would such a partition be to create?   Can any XP experts
help?

Boyd Ramsay

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