Slick Booting (Part 1)

[Doug]

Alex,

You can use *any* kernel with both Zipspeak and that
other install.zip that I mentioned. After you unzip
the filesystem on the DOS partition you can copy
over any linux kernel you want. So if it doesn't
have speakup, or any other thing you need, you can
just copy the same kernel that you boot on your
regular slackware filesystem, or look in the
kernels section ...

ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-9.0/kernels/
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-9.0/kernels/speakup.i/

What I do is this ... when I first unzip install.zip
in the DOS partition ... before I actuall boot it, I
copy a kernel there ... to /dos/linux ... one that is
already working on my machine ... that way I know it
will work. Then I add the lines to LILO  to point to
it ...

image = /dos/linux/vmlinuz
     root = /dev/hda1
     label = Linux-UMSDOS
     read-write

It must be set as "read-write" for the UMSDOS
file system.

Then, whenever I upgrade kernels on my normal root
file system, I also copy the kernel over to that
DOS filesystem ... that way I always have the same
kernel booting regular slackware and in my case the
install.zip thing (for rescue purposes).

You can of course boot that install.zip or the
zipslack from withing a running DOS environment
using loadlin ... but I like having it on my
LILO menu ... which has these options:

1) Slackware-Linux - Boot full slack9 on ext3

2) DOS-Windows - Boots the NT boot loader on
    /dev/hda1 which in turn displays a menu to
    boot DOS or Windows 2000

3) Busybox-Rescue - Boot the small UMSDOS root
    filesystem (from install.zip) on /dev/hda1

Ever since I started using this install.zip on
all machines I never need floppies anymore and
rarely use CD-ROMs either. I only need the
CD-ROM when setting up a new disk (not for
reinstalls and upgrades) ... and I have even
figured out how to create an image for a new
clean disk using only DD ... by mounting a
new drive as slave and copying over all that
is needed for DOS, Windows, and Slack ...

   -- Doug








>Thanks for the info.  I'll try this.
>One question: is the zipslack 9.0 kernel speakup enabled?
>
>--
>A message from the system administrator: "I've upped my priority, now up 
>yours!"
>On Mon, 7 Apr 2003, Doug wrote:
>
> > 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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