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["Ron Clarke" <ariadne AT acepia.net.au>]

Hi Folks,

On Sun, 28 Dec 2003 15:57:17 -0600 (CST), 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?

  In my MS-DOS 6.20, I set ldrive /dev/hdb4
then:     ldir -s/dev/hdb4
gave me the DIR listing of my BasciLinux 32 GIGABYTE partition at "/"    

  So it seems that in this case at least, the big partition does not 
frighten the LTOOLS.

Regards,
         Ron




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