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[Sindi Keesan <keesan AT iamjlamb.com>]

On Sat, 31 Jan 2004 3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org wrote:

> Sindi Keesan wrote:
> >
> > We have ruined 5 or 6 previously perfect floppy disks, 
> 
> As I said before, they are probably not ruined.
> 
> > We tried this.  Same problem with MS DOS 6.22.  
> 
> You put DOS 6.22 on the floppy (instead of bl2-fd.img) ?  
> And it still didn't work?

He says no, he started over with a new disk rather than replacing the 
operating system on that first disk made by your program, which was 
already messed up by fdimage.


> 
> > Jim wonders why you did not make a full 4M RAM disk, 
> > but something just under that.  
> 
> Because that is the space needed to reassemble part1 and part2.  
> I didn't want to run out of memory on computers with 8mb RAM.
> Keep in mind that loadlin needs to make it's own 4mb ramdisk 
> and gunzip baslinux.gz into it.  So we don't have a lot wriggle 
> room with 8mb RAM.

Jim asks:
So the RAM used for the DOS RAMdisk is released and reused by linux?
(If not can it be mounted as a DOS partition from linux?)

On a computer with 8M RAM you have 4M RAM disk used as a linux partition
and 4M RAM (with linux kernel taking up most of it)?


> Cheers,
> Steven