Day, your still around! Garry Hamilton and I have been wondering if you fell dow an Ozark hill and got lost?
Glad to read your still at it. John Oram Sacramento, CA Day Brown wrote: >Wouldnt it be possible to setup the desktop so that if I leave the >floppy in, it'll boot and find the dos drive, pulling up DW.exe, or >whatever filemanager you wanted. Or- if I leave the disk out, instead of >being on the dos desktop, have it boot loadlin from the /linux directory >on a vfat 16, and then continue on to load the desktop, even the browser >and ppp driver, without ever asking me for a username and password. No >shifting from the qwerty, or the numpad, or the mouse. > >BasicLinux says it'll run in 4megs dram. I have lots more, but I was >also impressed with how fast it came up to the bash prompt compared to >the other distros. But what do you all have? I have been given crashed >PCs to fix or upgrade for years, and it dont take long before you >collect a cigar box full of the 1meg 30 pin SIMM, and have saved enough >of the rarer 8 meg SIMM to install that on the few remaining 486 boards >that still work. > >But BL could also do the ext2 drive. Which it treats as data storage, >relying on the fat16 for the copies of its own OS Kernel... which it >copies onto a ramdisk, and runs from there. So it would seem that if it >got infected with sabotage software, wouldnt it be cured every time you >rebooted? And who cares what the sabotage software does to the kernel it >thinks is on the ext2 drive, since it dont boot off it. > >To unsubscribe from SURVPC send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with >unsubscribe SURVPC in the body of the message. >Also, trim this footer from any quoted replies. >More info can be found at; >http://www.softcon.com/archives/SURVPC.html > > > > > To unsubscribe from SURVPC send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe SURVPC in the body of the message. Also, trim this footer from any quoted replies. More info can be found at; http://www.softcon.com/archives/SURVPC.html
