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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

> # cmp -l dosfs dosfs_with_syslinux | wc -l
>   9294
>
> Does anybody have a size estimate for lilo?
>
> As you can see, syslinux is only 9k, compared with about 100k for
> GRUB. syslinux also installs to a FAT filesystem, which has less
> overhead than ext2 for a floppy-sized image. There is a variant of

Could we use syslinux instead of loadlin to boot from DOS?  If so how?

> syslinux that boots from ext2 instead, it's called extlinux.
COuld it be used with Bl3.40 floppy instead of lilo?

> David