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  • From: sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>
  • To: baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [BL] BL 3.40 preliminary GRUB report
  • Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2006 18:42:20 +0000 (UTC)


# 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




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