🚀 go-pugleaf

As an addenum....

In my anxious attempts to install Linux I failed to realise that the disk
sets conform to 8.3 and as such can easily be copied to and installed from a
FAT drive... ahem :-)

Linux is up and running with a minimal of fuss, very impressed. Now I just
have to remember all the commands from my CS days...

Ashton


Ashton Mills wrote:

> 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