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RE: [OT] DVD drives & DOS



It probably is a sledgehammer, but when it comes to the Linux community, there are a lot of blacksmiths who could whip together a sledgehammer for you quickly :-)

-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Gordon [mailto:paul_gordon@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 6 November 2002 15:41
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx Subject: RE: [ukha_d] [OT] DVD drives & DOS



Thanks Mark,

I never thought of that,  - it does seem to be a sledgehammer to crack a
nut! At the moment, the images are Powerquest .PQI files and I don't know if
there is any flexibility in that....

Paul G.


>
>Paul,
>
>If these are OS _images_ as opposed to installation routines, then does it
>need to be a DOS floppy?
>
>I'm fairly confident that one could shoehorn a Linux kernel, a set of
>device drivers for an IDE harddisk, a set of device drivers for a specific
>DVD reader, and a "copy all" routine onto a single floppy.
>
>Linux can read / write and format FAT and NTFS these days.
>
>M.
>

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