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DosLinux is a relatively small distribution of the linux operating
system.
It can be installed on an existing dos system i.e. msdos, pcdos,
opendos, and win95/98 in dos mode.
There's no need to create a partition or repartition to install
doslinux, because it will just occupy a directory i.e. c:\linux,
d:\linux, etc. on your existing dos system.
Read DosLinux.README for further info at the site below.
You'll need about 40 megabytes of free space on your dos system
to unpack doslinux.
DosLinux doesn't include X windows or the gcc compiler, but these
are easy to install on doslinux, just read /usr/X11/install.X.guide
and /usr/doc/guides/gcc-doslinux after you install doslinux.
DosLinux has support for IDE & SCSI hard drives, Ethernet cards, IDE
& SCSI cdrom drives, Tcp/ip networking i.e. SLIP/PPP, Floppy drives,
Sound cards, Serial & non serial mice, Parallel printers, PNP support,
PCMCIA support, etc.
DosLinux runs on kernel 2.0.34.
DosLinux is a linux libc5 elf system.
You need at least a 386 CPU and 8mb of memory to use DosLinux.
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Title: DosLinux
Version: 57
Entered-date: 19JUL98
Description: A small linux elf system that can be droped into an
existing dos system, i.e. opendos, msdos, pcdos, etc.
& win95/98 in dos mode.
About 28 mbytes uncompressed, 12 mbytes compressed.
Contents: doslnx57.exe 1408Kb or 1440000b
doslnx57.r00 1408Kb or 1440000b
doslnx57.r01 1408Kb or 1440000b
doslnx57.r02 1408Kb or 1440000b
doslnx57.r03 1408Kb or 1440000b
doslnx57.r04 1408Kb or 1440000b
doslnx57.r05 1408Kb or 1440000b
doslnx57.r06 924Kb or 945385b
zimagei.exe 439Kb or 445778b
zimageia.exe 442Kb or 449072
zimages.exe 717Kb or 729473b
modules directory.
packages directory.
DosLinux.README and this lsm.
Keywords: DosLinux.README
Primary-site: http://gwyn.tux.org/pub/people/kent-robotti/index.html
ftp://gwyn.tux.org/pub/people/kent-robotti/doslinux
Alternate-site: There are no mirrors of doslinux that i know of at this
time, anyone is free to create a mirror etc.
Platforms: Dos
Copying-policy: GPL
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