> In your cogent and legible FAQ noted that you have removed rlogin. Why?
Because the telnet client works and is better. There are no reasons to
use rlogin when telnet works, especially as rlogin only works to other
*nix systems, while telnet works to many platforms. Why would you need
it instead of telnet? I even have the working telnetd support, although
it often requires tweaking options in the telnet client connecting to it.
> Can it be added back in?
You may. So far you are the only one who has missed it...
> Can files on hard drive be used after booting up into tomsrtbt?
Yes, use the normal mount syntax. See "man mount". For mounting a win95
partition on and IDE drive: "mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /mnt", for instance.
It supports IDE, many SCSI types, Joliet, FAT32, ext2fs, minix, VFAT,
iso9660, doublespace/drivespace, some PCMCIA mounted drives also.
> Can tomsrtbt be used to boot from hard drives as well?
It is easy to do but unsupported. Basically, blast everything over from a
running tomsrtbt and tweak rc.M and fstab and make a lilo.conf and go!
Or, if you mean "boot an existing linux system from the tomsrtbt kernel",
you can certainly do, say, at the "boot:" prompt, something like:
boot: zImage root=/dev/hda1
> What file system is being used? Can FAT32X be used? (cf. Zipslack [which
> sets up RAMdisk from realDOS of MS W9x], DOSlinux [whose FAT16 files are
> also usable from Windows], monkeylinux)
It is in 3 parts: (1) a minix filesystem at the start of the floppy,
which has only the compressed kernel and files needed at boot time, (2) a
gzipped minix filesystem, which is loaded by the kernel to /, and a bzip2
compressed cpio archive, which goes on a minix filesystem on /usr. I will
not be supporting other architectures. The design goal is "as much as
possible on 1 floppy", and the way it is now is the best way I've found to
meet that. Tomsrtbt supports FAT32 and VFAT, so you can mount, backup,
create, check, format, restore, etc... but tomsrtbt is meant to be
administered _from itself_, not _from Windows_. I will not be doing
anything to make tomsrtbt manipulatable from Windows or specially from
other Linux distributions- it is intended to stand on its own and be
internally self-sufficient. There are some ways to _boot_ tomsrtbt from
DOS without going through floppy, search the list archives for
"loadlinable" or "llable". There is also a bootable-CD version, this is
called "ElTorito-2.88.bz2". Again, those are ways to _start_ tomsrtbt
besides floppy, and there are many ways to _access your WinXX files_ from
tomsrtbt, but there will probably never be a way to _edit and configure
tomsrtbt_ from WinXX. Just boot tomsrtbt and do it from there...
-Tom
