UMSDOS HOW-TO

Jacques Gelinas, jacques@solucorp.qc.ca

1. Copyright and License

2. UMSDOS: Where is it ?

• 2.1 Copyright and License
• 2.2 History
• 2.3 Availability
• 2.4 Distribution supporting it
• 2.5 Home site
• 2.6 Technical documentation
• 2.7 Who wrote it

3. Umsdos as your root partition

• 3.1 The pseudo-root concept.
• 3.2 Things to know about the pseudo-root

4. Different topics about the operation of Umsdos

• 4.1 Mount option
• 4.2 How to set defaults for the root
• 4.3 To swap or not to swap

5. How to boot a Umsdos system

• 5.1 Loadlin
• 5.2 From a floppy
• 5.3 LILO
• 5.4 How to defragment a Umsdos partition
• 5.5 Advance tricks

6. Basic principle

• 6.1 Introduction
• 6.2 Umsdos can replace the Ms-DOS file-system.
• 6.3 Directory promotion
• 6.4 How to promote: /sbin/umssync
• 6.5 Using /sbin/umssync at boot time
• 6.6 How to UN-promote
• 6.7 What about files created during a DOS session ?

7. Installation/UN-installation and some tricks

• 7.1 The pseudo-root /mnt/linux
• 7.2 Preparing /mnt/linux
• 7.3 Making sure /mnt/linux is correctly setup
• 7.4 Oops releasing pseudo root ...
• 7.5 How to UN-install a Umsdos system
• 7.6 Moving a Umsdos system to another DOS drive
• 7.7 About installing 50 Umsdos systems.

8. Setting a Linux section in a DOS partition

9. UMSDOS-WHY-TO

• 9.1 The goal of Umsdos
• 9.2 Who needs it
• 9.3 Performance issue