Slick Booting (Part 1)

[Doug]

Alex,

 > The drive I was thinking of is a 240mb maxtor taken
 > out of a dead 486...

It would make a good rescue disk. Beats using floppies
or cdrom ... with 240mb you could also install zipslack
on DOS and get a full minimal slackware system. Then if
you have trouble with your other drive, you can boot
from this one and fix stuff on the other drives. I like
the install.zip because it's small.

ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-9.0/zipslack/README.1st
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-9.0/rootdisks/install.zip.README

The cool thing about the install.zip is that it only
needs 16MB, so even on a small disk, you can have a
small DOS partition and always have a rescue disk
on HDD ... I hate floppies ... I don't like cdroms
very much either. The more I can do straight from
HDD or network the better ...

   -- Doug


>--
>A message from the system administrator: "I've upped my priority, now up 
>yours!"
>On Sun, 6 Apr 2003, Doug wrote:
>
> > Alex,
> >
> >  > I may install another hdd to completely devote to dos.
> >
> > The DOS (FAT16) file system only goes up to 2GB ...
> > What I do is put a 300MB DOS partition on every machine.
> > It's wild but those "windows bundles" I spoke of hold
> > the *entire* windows 2000 install bits in approx 250MB.
> > They are compressed and they extract. So I wouldn't
> > devote a whole drive to DOS ... a nice small partition
> > will do it ...
> >
> >    -- Doug
> >
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