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Re: umsdos root partition
- To: robert <http://dummy.us.eu.org/robert>
- Subject: Re: umsdos root partition
- From: guenther <http://www.gst.priv.at/~gst>
- Date: Wed, 27 Oct 1999 19:23:51 +0200
- In-Reply-To: <19991027142345.14801.qmail>; from http://dummy.us.eu.org/robert on Wed, Oct 27, 1999 at 02:23:42PM +0000
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On Wed, Oct 27, 1999 at 02:23:42PM +0000, robert wrote:
> > i have a notebook with windoze 98 and debian linux installed. because
> > the harddisk isn't very large (and i don't want to split it) i decided
> > to install linux in an umsdos partition.
>
> Hi. I have been looking for a HOWTO or something on how to do this (i.e.,
> install Debian onto an existing FAT partition and not having to
> repartition the disk). Do you know if such a HOWTO exists for Debian?
sorry, i don't think that a debian specific umsdos howto exists.
on my notebook i installed debian in an ext2 partition then moved
the whole thing on the fat partition (subdirectory c:\linux\)
deleted the ext2 partition and changed the size of the fat
partition.
when my kernel boots the system checks for the linux subdirectory
and mounts the c:\linux\ subdirectory as /.
i think that is the only solution with the debian 2.1 distribution :-(
cu
-guenther