From: kburtch@pts.mot.com (Kevin Burtch) Subject: Re: [Q] DOS 6.0 + Linux coexist ? Date: Thu, 5 Aug 1993 21:30:25 GMT
In article 7044@dutrun2.tudelft.nl, wbtt001@dutrun2.tudelft.nl (A. Evers) writes:
>I have DOS 6.0 on my 1 physical IDE hard disk (220 MB, 16 MB internal, 486) and
>have DblSpace-d it (works fine btw). It was fdisk-ed with DOS 5 (upgraded to 6).
First off: GET RID OF DBLSPACE!! It has _major_ bugs! :(
Now don't go flaming me for saying this. If you want proof, e-mail me.
Keep this MS-DOS discussion out of this newsgroup!
I would recommend Stacker (besides, it gets better compression)
(I am _not_ a DOS-hater)
>Can i savely put Linux on it and have a part (say 40 MB DblSpace-d) for DOS 6 ?
No: dblspace works just like any other drive compression program:
The CVF (Compressed Volume File) is on an MS-DOS formatted partition.
It uses its own algorithms to compress files real-time into one large file.
(Dblspace is a _program_ that runs _in_ MS-DOS)
Linux uses its own (read different) format (filesystem)
Linux is a stand alone (real) operating system, not a program running in
MS-DOS, so there is no way to run linux from a Dblspaced disk.
>Is it necessary to remove DblSpace first (quite an exercise, btw) ?
Like I said above GET RID OF IT!! (nothing to do with linux)
>The FAQ says Stackers works fine with Linux...
I don't know which FAQ you are refering to, as I have only seen comments
on how to _access_ a stacked drive from _within_ linux using dosemu
(MS-DOS EMUlator), _not_ running linux from a compressed drive.
(Big difference)
>Unfortunately, i have to stick partially to DOS because of some dedicated XMS
>programs we use (they will definitely not run under dosemu).
You will have to repartition your drive to run linux. Linux needs
its own (isolated) partition.
>
>Anybody did this succesfully (or not) ?
>I'm asking this, because i heard that Dos 6 gave problems with Linux.
I have installed on my 486DX-50 VL-Bus machine MS-DOS 6.0 and
linux 0.99pl11 with no problems. In fact, MS-DOS 6.0 has a very nice
advantage over its predecessors: multi-config. I have a program called
bootlin.com that runs from MS-DOS's config.sys menu to boot linux.
It's _very_ fast! :) (instead of LILO from a floppy) It has other
very nice advatages I won't waste bandwidth on.
I have (2) 340MByte hard drives one for MS-DOS and one for linux.
They get along _fine_.
>
>Will summarize reactions (positive AND negative) !
>
>Bye-bye,
>
>Eric.
>ericm@dutw34.tudelft.nl
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