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Newbie Linux user qustion number 4572954: Installing from HPFS a
possibility?

Scenario: I've downloaded (no, not modem. Don't ask!) the entire
Slackware 3.3 distribution to an HPFS drive to keep long file name
support (DOS having a slight 8.3 problem).
I can create Linux bootable floppies, well and good.

Problem: Installing the rest of Linux from a partition that the kernal
can see :-). I'm completely new to Linux, but not Unix and I'm a
computer savvy person so you don't have to worry about trying to explain
everything.

Any help would be appreciated :-).

From brief reading I believe it's possible to compile HPFS support into
the kernal -- but for the first initial install?

I think it may also be possible to boot a network capable kernal (if I
sound like I don't know what I'm talking about, I don't.) according to
one book I scanned. This would be fine as I have a local network, and if
it were possible to mount a network drive from another machine running
OS/2 with HPFS networked drives that would solve partition-accessing
probs.

Are these possibilities? Any other ideas (apart from burning a CD...)?
I'm currently running DOS 6, Win95, OS/2 and NT on a purely SCSI system
so I have a plethora of file systems and partitions available.


Thankyou for any help,

Ashton
amills@acp.com.au