Re: Booting tomsrtbt from Mess-DOS

On Thu, 05 Sep 2002 15:34, Charles Curley wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 04, 2002 at 07:53:18PM +1200, Warren Doney wrote:
> > On Wed, 04 Sep 2002 07:07, you wrote:
> > > On Wed, 04 Sep 2002 00:29, Charles Curley wrote:
> > > > Has anyone gotten tomsrtbt to boot directly from Mess-DOS
> > > > without building a floppy?
> > > >
> > > > I have a laptop with no floppy drive and it doesn't boot to the
> > > > CD-ROM, so that leaves a Mess-DOS boot.
[........]

From the front page of the wiki:

"I recommend using a bootable CD rescue distribution if you have a 
bootable CDROM drive available. Why limit yourself to tomsrtbt if you 
can have a full GUI and 650 MegaBytes of tools?" -- TomOehser.

The same could be said of having a few  100MB free on your DOS 
partition. Why not just use zipslak, or tar a minimal install of your 
favorite rpm/deb based distribution & extract it to a Loopback Root 
Filesystem & boot it with loadlin? About all you'd have to do is edit 
fstab, unless there is some problem with distros that boot with an 
initrd.

The Loopback Root Filesystem HOWTO:
http://www.tux.org/pub/people/kent-robotti/looplinux/loop-root-fs.txt

BTW, if you have tweakui installed in M$, there is an option in it to 
boot to a menu, rather than the GUI.

I did use a batch script to start Tomsrtbt in DOS, but didn't have a 
problem with line endings, as there was only one line :-)
(This has shed some light on a problem I had with another .bat - from 
editing it in Linux).

-- 
-WBD.