UMSDOS HOW-TO

Jacques Gelinas, jacques@solucorp.qc.ca

1. UMSDOS: Where is it ?

• 1.1 History
• 1.2 Availability
• 1.3 Distribution supporting it
• 1.4 Home site
• 1.5 Technical documentation
• 1.6 Who wrote it

2. Umsdos as your root partition

• 2.1 The pseudo-root concept.
• 2.2 Things to know about the pseudo-root

3. Different topics about the operation of Umsdos

• 3.1 Mount option
• 3.2 How to set defaults for the root
• 3.3 To swap or not to swap

4. How to boot a Umsdos system

• 4.1 Loadlin
• 4.2 From a floppy
• 4.3 LILO
• 4.4 How to defragment a Umsdos partition
• 4.5 Advance tricks

5. Basic principle

• 5.1 Introduction
• 5.2 Umsdos can replace the Ms-DOS file-system.
• 5.3 Directory promotion
• 5.4 How to promote: /sbin/umssync
• 5.5 Using /sbin/umssync at boot time
• 5.6 How to UN-promote
• 5.7 What about files created during a DOS session ?

6. Installation/UN-installation and some tricks

• 6.1 The pseudo-root /mnt/linux
• 6.2 Preparing /mnt/linux
• 6.3 Making sure /mnt/linux is correctly setup
• 6.4 Oops releasing pseudo root ...
• 6.5 How to UN-install a Umsdos system
• 6.6 Moving a Umsdos system to another DOS drive
• 6.7 About installing 50 Umsdos systems.

7. Setting a Linux section in a DOS partition

8. UMSDOS-WHY-TO

• 8.1 The goal of Umsdos
• 8.2 Who needs it
• 8.3 Performance issue