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[Lee Forrest <lforrestster AT gmail.com>]

On Thu, Dec 21, 2006 at 04:40:02PM +0000, sindi keesan wrote:
> >>>I can create a DOS filesystem with mkdosfs, but it wouldn't be
> >>>bootable (says the manpage), and I don't know if that would
> >>>nip things in the bud.
> >>>
> >>>But I'm not running DOS or win 95/98, or dosemu, and I'm
> >>>pretty sure _that_ would nip things in the bud.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>Lee
> >>
> >>Can you make a 30MB or so partition and install FREEDOS to it?
> >>
> >>Can you run BL3.40 under dosemu? I got it working, I think only
> >>the libc6 version.
> 
> >I'm not interested in running a DOS emulator, Sin. It's a big and
> >complex program and I have no experience with emulators or DOS. I
> >wouldn't even get it operational and figure out how to use it before
> >you solved your problem.
> >
> >Sorry,
> >
> >Lee
> 
> Do you have an extra old drive anywhere that you could temporarily plug 
> into the motherboard?  (I don't think the case has room to put one in 
> permanently).

No. And I have no interest in learning DOS.

You like it because you are used to it. I've read enough about it
to know that it is quite inferior to linux.

Lee