Subject: SYSLINUX -- boot Linux off MS-DOS floppies
From: [email-masked] (H. Peter Anvin)
Date: Sat, 20 Aug 1994 15:51:20 GMT
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.announce

Hello Linux world...

I am happy to announce SYSLINUX, a tool to boot Linux off MS-DOS
formatted floppies, without the need for LILO-style map files.  It is
intended to simplify first time installation; in conjunction with the
UMSDOS filesystem it would even be possible to put together a Linux
distribution using nothing but MS-DOS formatted floppies, COPY, and a
small utility (10K, of which 2K+boot sector are copied to the disk).

LSM entry follows.

Begin3
Title: syslinux          
Version: 08/20/94
Entered-date: 08/20/94  
Description: SYSLINUX is a boot loader for the Linux operating system
	     which operates off MS-DOS floppies.  It is intended to
	     simplify first-time installation of Linux.  SYSLINUX
	     could in conjunction with the UMSDOS filesystem,
	     completely eliminate the need for distribution of raw
	     diskette images for boot floppies.  A SYSLINUX floppy
	     can be manipulated using standard MS-DOS (or any other
	     OS that can access an MS-DOS filesystem) tools once
	     it has been created.
Keywords: syslinux msdos boot umsdos bootfloppy floppy install
Author: [email-masked] (H. Peter Anvin)
Maintained-by: [email-masked] (H. Peter Anvin)
Primary-site: eecs.nwu.edu /pub/linux/syslinux
	      37814 syslinux.zip	
Alternate-site: sunsite.unc.edu /pub/Linux/system/Linux-boot
Original-site: eecs.nwu.edu /pub/linux/syslinux
Platform: MS-DOS
Copying-policy: GPL
End

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