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["David Moberg" <davidjmoberg AT gmail.com>]

sindi keesan wrote:
>
> > # 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?

AFAIK syslinux doesn't run inside of DOS, it only runs when it is
executed by your PC's BIOS.

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

Sure. But what advantage would that gain?

David