Well, that's certainly a question you don't see every day. I would think that the major bootloaders would have no problem booting MS-DOS, I assume the bootloading process has stayed the same. Esoteric questions like that are probably better served with a Google search, I would suggesting searching for "ms dos" lilo (lilo being the name of a major Linux boot loader) or searching for "ms dos" grub "boot loader" (grub also being the name of a boot loader, but is a noun so you have to add the "boot loader" part.) I doubt a machine with DOS on it would have the hard drive space for dual-booting, so the question is probably academic anyway.
As far as your previous message, all of those machines (with the exception of the Amiga... you would install Linux on that mostly for its novelty value I think, I would certainly prefer AmigaOS) would make fine servers and mediciore desktop machines. Hardware compatablity issues do not come from the processors, but the sound cards, video cards etc. On older machines like those, problems often arise. On Thursday 19 February 2004 21:43, iosif wrote: > and do all distributions come with a boot-loader that can easily handle > ms-dos? pre- or -post gnu/linux install? > i > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > To get off this list, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with Subject: unsubscribe > ----------------------------------------------------------------- -- Ian Monroe http://www.monroe.nu ----------------------------------------------------------------- To get off this list, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with Subject: unsubscribe -----------------------------------------------------------------
