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voidmain:
You can get a split command for DOS. I actually wrote one myself about 10 years ago (before I found the GNU file utilies were already ported to DOS). A quick search should find many different "split" commands for DOS.

Calum:
yeah, but he needs to put the stuff back together in DOS, not split it. anyway, the files will fit on 2 floppies if you unzip the file on your big machine. also, DOS is only going to be there long enough to get basiclinux installed. Actually, i think that there is a bit in the basiclinux FAQ about how to install basiclinux without using DOS.

[ December 12, 2002: Message edited by: Calum ]

voidmain:
C:\> COPY /B FILE1.DAT+FILE2.DAT+FILE3.DAT ORIGFILE.ZIP

[ December 12, 2002: Message edited by: void main ]

KernelPanic:
Right I'm planning on installing Basic Linux on one of my partitions, I havn't used it in a while.

What I need to know is, how does it bootstrap?
Does it touch the MBR?
Basically I don't want it to kill my GRUB.

Calum:
if you install it to hd it does not touch the MBR (as it says in the FAQ, the first link at the bottom of the basiclinux page) and if you want to add it to GRUB, you'd just perform whatever hocuspocusery you do in GRUB to add another bootable partition. Once you install it to a hard drive partition, you then copy your kernel (zImage) from your DOS baslinux folder into your new /boot directory on your new ext2 basiclinux partition, and then you point your bootloader at that.

There's instructions somewhere (i think in the baslinux FAQ) for how to add it to lilo, and i am sure they would be useful to you.

This 'copying the kernel' business is the exact reason why it won't work if you run basiclinux and bas2hd from the floppy based version. if you copy the floppy kernel to /boot, it doesn't appear to work. It needs to be the DOS kernel that you use.

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