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[Sindi Keesan <keesan AT iamjlamb.com>]

I tested ltools on our computer with (problematic) 8G hard drive.  The 
linux partition, says Jim, is 4G.  Ltools works.  We are using the DOS 
that came with Win98. Dos 7?  For computers without Windows on them we 
certainly don't need more than 2G hard drive, if that, to install BL2 and 
other programs that we want to use with it.  

I tried PTSDOS once and it was quite buggy.




On Sun, 28 Dec 2003, James Miller wrote:

> 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
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