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From: pjfarley AT dorsai DOT org (Peter J. Farley III)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: 32bit DOS.
Date: Tue, 23 Sep 1997 01:27:36 GMT
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"SERACK, Garrett W.*" <gserack AT shl DOT com> wrote:
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>WARNING : REMEMBERED 'FACTS' Follow. Accuracy is not guaranteed!
>
>I seem to remember a version of Linux someone put together that ran 
>entirely off of a FAT file system.  ( MINILINUX ?) I know that it doesn't 
>like to run on large drives 'cause it uses a early version of umsdos file 
>system.  I remember that it dates to '95 or so.  Maybe we need to rebuild 
>that sort of thing.  I would love to run linux off of my FAT drive.

Was it MINIX?  I seem to remember this, too.  Time to go to the web
searcher...

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Peter J. Farley III (pjfarley AT dorsai DOT org)

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