On Thu, 05 Sep 2002 15:34, Charles Curley wrote: > On Wed, Sep 04, 2002 at 07:53:18PM +1200, Warren Doney wrote: > > On Wed, 04 Sep 2002 07:07, you wrote: > > > On Wed, 04 Sep 2002 00:29, Charles Curley wrote: > > > > Has anyone gotten tomsrtbt to boot directly from Mess-DOS > > > > without building a floppy? > > > > > > > > I have a laptop with no floppy drive and it doesn't boot to the > > > > CD-ROM, so that leaves a Mess-DOS boot. [........]
>From the front page of the wiki: "I recommend using a bootable CD rescue distribution if you have a bootable CDROM drive available. Why limit yourself to tomsrtbt if you can have a full GUI and 650 MegaBytes of tools?" -- TomOehser. The same could be said of having a few 100MB free on your DOS partition. Why not just use zipslak, or tar a minimal install of your favorite rpm/deb based distribution & extract it to a Loopback Root Filesystem & boot it with loadlin? About all you'd have to do is edit fstab, unless there is some problem with distros that boot with an initrd. The Loopback Root Filesystem HOWTO: http://www.tux.org/pub/people/kent-robotti/looplinux/loop-root-fs.txt BTW, if you have tweakui installed in M$, there is an option in it to boot to a menu, rather than the GUI. I did use a batch script to start Tomsrtbt in DOS, but didn't have a problem with line endings, as there was only one line :-) (This has shed some light on a problem I had with another .bat - from editing it in Linux). -- -WBD.
