DOS ain't dead

Linux starting from DOS (Users)

posted by animalid, 03.03.2011, 01:20

Some years ago in my job i needed knoppix but i was too lazy to install it on my pc. But i had 1GB of free space on dos partition on my laptop so i looked around and found a way to run it on dos without instaling - just had to copy knoppix and isolinux folder to hdd and use loadlin to run it. Some time ago i found out that the same thing works for DSL (Damn Small Linux). Just have to get iso of DSL: http://ftp.heanet.ie/mirrors/damnsmalllinux.org/current/dsl-4.4.10.iso and copy folder Knoppix from iso to hard disk. Next you have to copy files from /boot/isolinux also to knoppix folder on hard disk. Then create in that folder file boot.txt containing folowning lines:
linux24
root=/dev/ram
rw
initrd=minirt24.gz
vga=normal
init=/etc/init
lang=us
apm=power-off
nomce
BOOT_IMAGE=knoppix

then copy loadlin.exe to this folder and you are all set. And you can run it with loadlin @boot.txt
I run it on PIII 400 with 128 MB RAM and it was quite fast. I don't have anything lower than PIII so i cannot tell if will work 100% sure on your setup but DSL info says it needs max 486DX and 128 MB for running on ramdisk.

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