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  • From: "Ron Clarke" <ariadne AT acepia.net.au>
  • To: baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [BL] ltools, DOSes and Linux
  • Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2003 14:48:34 +1000

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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