From: niemidc@oasis.gtefsd.com (David C. Niemi) Subject: Re: Using ms-dos compression and linux Date: 15 Sep 1993 18:37:15 GMT
In article 28573@hellgate.utah.edu, jensen%peruvian.cs.utah.edu@cs.utah.edu (travis jensen) writes:
>I have a question regarding compressing my dos partition
>and using linux. Can it be done? Of course, I realize
>that I would lose access to the dos files from linux, but
>other than that, would it work?
Sure, why not? I have been using a couple of compressed DR-DOS 6 partitions
with Linux for months, and it is quite true that Linux can't read them
(directly). I still recommend booting your Messy-Dos off of a small
uncompressed partition, particularly if Double-Trouble is involved.
You should be able to access your compressed partition from Linux via
dosemu, but that won't come any where near the speed of Linux access
to a normal DOS partition (which I have timed as being 2-3 times as
fast as native DOS accesses!).