From: Sabina & Franz (sabina@niedermeyer.org)
Date: Sun Jan 20 2002 - 04:45:54 CET
I just recently used Professor Andreoli's recommended method for Windows
NT. This should work the same for Windows 2000 and Windows XP.
>From the README.txt in archive DOSTOOLS.ZIP:
[begin quote]
UNPACKING THE archives
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1) Create a new directory (eg. c:\mulinux) and move DOSTOOLS.zip,
mulinux-VERSION.tgz and the addons into it.
2) Unzip DOSTOOLS.zip using pkunzip or equivalent (Winzip).
eg:
c:\mulinux> pkunzip DOSTOOLS.zip
3) Run unpack.bat
c:\mulinux> unpack
This will open the main archive mulinux-VERSION.tgz
METHOD 1: using the Installer Disk (Suggested for WinNT)
--------------------------------------------------------
a) Run makefi.bat (formerly makefd.bat) in a DOS window:
c:\mulinux> makefi
This will create the "Installation Disk". It is formatted as
usual, i.e. 1440k.
b) Put this disk in the drive and reboot
[end quote]
The 1.44MB diskette you create with the method described above contains a
bootable Linux kernel which will automatically guide you through the
process of creating the 1.7MB diskettes you need.
Best of luck! Just note that I did suffer problems from a corrupted file
on one of the diskettes. I had to redo the process of downloading and
creating the distribution diskettes, and everything worked fine. Bravo,
Michele and friends!
-Franz
>Hello,
>I just joined this list so this question may have been answered before. I
>looked at the Archive page but it doesn't exist anymore as far as I could
>see. I wanted to load mulinux on my XP machine but XP doesn't allow one to
>boot to MSDOS. Just wondering if there is still a way to create a boot disk
>for mulinux despite the lack of MSDOS. In the mulinux tutorial it said I
>couldn't create the boot disk from a DOS console window. mulinux works great
>on my W98 machine. Thanks for any assistance!
>Jim
>
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