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Linus Benedict Torvalds
Devices
Before the actual article: a quick question. Are any of you using DOS version 5.0 ? If I've understood correctly, 5.0 changes the disk-layout rather heavily. I doubt mtools can handle the new DOS partitions, and possibly even the partition table has changed. Again, I'd be interested to know if everything works fine with DOS 5.0. Ok. Here is a short table: Memory devices: Major = 1 (characted devices) minor 0 /dev/ram - not implemented (never will be, I think: minix special) 1 /dev/mem ...
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Nov 6, 1:15 pm 1991
Linus Benedict Torvalds
16-bit binaries
Ok, here's the 16-bit binaries of the bootsector and setup. They are 544 and 340 bytes respectively, but taring made them somewhat bigger (8192). I decided to send them as a tar archive, as that increases the ways you can import them to linux. In order to use them, you have to edit the Linux makefile a bit: remove (or comment) the lines that have the 16 bit dependencies on them (I'd also suggest you change 'clean' so that it won't remove these binaries), and install these binaries in the boot-direc...
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Nov 6, 11:58 am 1991
Linus Benedict Torvalds
Trying to answer ...
Well, it seems people are starting to get some things working, and my Yes. I've personally tried it, and there were no problems. It seems Urg. I fu**ed up. As has been pointed out, it is much easier to use tar on a disk-image. Stupid of me not to think of that, even though that's what tar is for. Even so, I should at least have done some kind of readme for the mtools files. If you want to read files from the DOS-partition, the mtools programs should work. They need some setting up: you need to ...
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Nov 6, 7:58 am 1991
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