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[Matrix Mole <matrixm AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

On Mon, 5 Apr 2004, [iso-8859-1] Ian Scott wrote:

> > Couldn't this be a reason
> > to consider moving the BL line away from the DOS
> > filesystem, or at least
> > making it more portable to a pure Linux environment?
>
<snip points 1 and 2>
> POint 3: Isn't the whole point of BL that it is easy
> to run for someone who is used to DOS.   If you have a
> PC without DOS on it already, you are probably much
> better going with another distro that will install directly.

Points 4: If you really want to move away from using the DOS fat/vfat file
systems for a more native linux system you could always fight with
installing lilo yourself. That way your system would boot directly into a
linux native file system. I think a few people have actually done that
here.

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