From: "Bruce A. Locke" <blocke@nyx.net> Subject: FireMyst v0.8 - a small UMSDOS Linux installation Date: Fri, 30 Jan 1998 12:34:26 GMT -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Announcing a new tool for Linux users... DragonLinux: FireMyst! FireMyst is a UMSDOS-based replacement for those fustrating rigid recovery diskettes. FireMyst is a tiny UMSDOS installation that is a functional Linux system. In under 7MB of harddisk on any DOS and Windows 95 (vfat, fat16, fat32) partition, FireMyst comes complete with many tools and utilities: - - shells: sh, bash - - The standard utilites: cat, chgrp, chmod, chown, cp, cut, dd, df, dircolors, du, echo, false, free, kill, killall, ln, ls, mkdir, mknod, more, mv, ps, rm, rmdir, sync, true, umount, uname, depmod, halt, init, kernald, killall5, ldconfig, makedev, mkswap, modprobe, mount, rdev, the various rdev sym links, reboot, init, shutdown, swapoff, telinit, swapon, update, expr, gpm, grep, sleep, and more... - - Disk and filesystem utilites: fdisk, mkfs, debugfs, dosfsck, e2fsck, fsck, fsck.minix, fsck.xiafs, the various fsck symbolic links for script compatability, mkdosfs, mke2fs, mkfs, mkfs.ext2, mkfs.minix, mkfs.msdos, mkfs.xiafs, mklost+found, mkxfs, tune2fs, umssync, xfsk, and more... - - Archivers and their utilites: gzip, gunzip, tar, zip, bzip2, bzip2recover, unarj, zipgrep, zipinfo, zipnote, zipsplit - - Floppy disk utilites (format and create filesystems) - - ASCII Editors: joe and pico - - Midnight Commander - - DragonLinux's own help file... available through a command. All this in under 7MB of hard disk space! And even better, FireMyst comes as a 3MB ZIP file or three RAR SFX files for when you recycle those recovery floppies. ;) If you wish, you can just keep a copy of the ZIP and unzip it when you need it. Installation of FireMyst is as easy as just unziping a file! Modifying FireMyst is easy. Wish to install your own programs? Just copy the binaries and needed library files into the right directories and you've got yourself a custom version of FireMyst. Another option you have in installing FireMyst is to simply make your modifications and re-zip up your LINUX directory. This saves space and means you have your customized version available when you need it... If you decide to keep it uncompressed and installed, you can use it to backup configuration files when you 'tinker' (useful for us lazy people who never backup... ;). What? You just trashed your init files and you can't boot? Just fire up FireMyst by using a batch file in DOS/Win95 and off you go. Just mount your filesystems and repair the damage. :) If your interested, you can grab a copy from the URL below. You may also want to check out my plans for future UMSDOS installations... :) http://www.lizard.org/dragonlinux/ Bruce A. Locke blocke@lizard.org - -- ============================================ Bruce A. Locke (blocke@nyx.net) http://www.lizard.org/blocke/ - -- This article has been digitally signed by the moderator, using PGP. http://www.iki.fi/mjr/cola-public-key.asc has PGP key for validating signature. Send submissions for comp.os.linux.announce to: linux-announce@news.ornl.gov PLEASE remember a short description of the software and the LOCATION. This group is archived at http://www.iki.fi/liw/linux/cola.html -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3ia Charset: latin1 iQCVAgUBNNHI0lrUI/eHXJZ5AQFjUgQAjnLFek6UABmz5wTLvW2EH0pcgndvjq4G IGUE/pvDd37bR8N/NyvGbjCgIdot+pw/PeHB+JnNAJvTSvAwBfTJLkm+sr2UZ6wp ezLYPXSjmmXmG4vTaKVu3bBoP8Wf1gA2NUpqVfdEPkEKmnW5bH+KOyHRUH3CHgKW +wFkICV+0Vg= =G64A -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----