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[James Miller <jamtat AT mailsnare.net>]

This talk about ltools and rescuing Linux from DOS has got me thinking.  I
guess my first question is how helpful DOS could be in rescuing Linux in
this day of large hard drives?  I mean, let's say you've got a tiny little
4 o 6 GB drive.  Something goes wrong with Linux, but you've got DOS on a
partition on the drive.  Aren't you subject to DOS disk size limitations,
even using ltools?  Can you access drives larger than 2 GB with it, even
though DOS is limited to that?  Finally, let's say one wanted to have a
DOS partition for rescue purposes: what's the best DOS for this?  Is
Freedos a viable option?  Or should one stick with the mainstream ones -
M$, DRDOS or PCDOS?  I've got PTSDOS, but I haven't quite figured out how
batch files are written with it (slightly different syntax than M$ DOS)
and its memory management seems a bit flaky (doesn't work with loadlin; I
have to turn off its memory management to use loadlin to boot Linux).  Its
CD driver stinks too (but can be easily replaced by shcdex.exe).

Thanks, James