Date: Sat, 05 Sep 1998 14:38:02 -0500
To: andreoli@pisoft.it
From: <jpena@universe.uiwtx.edu>
Subject: muLinux: Floppy Linux, v 1.1

Dear Michele,
     Hi!  My name is J.R. Pe=F1a.  I recently discovered muLinux two days
ago, after looking up information on Trinux.  I'm very pleased with
muLinux.  It took me a while to figure out how to make a diskcopy from the
image file. =20
	No, I knew how to use rawrite.  I just couldn't get a diskcopy using
rawrite, since I was always getting error messages saying that the first
sector was bad.  I was using the earlier August release, by the way.  Yet,
I downloaded the later, V1.6 .tgz file.  I noticed that the compressed copy
was different than the earlier release.  For instance, there was a
install.bat file and other utilities, such as fdformat.  I couldn't exactly
format a disk using fdformat.  It wouldn't work.  So, I downloaded a copy
of WinImage for Windows 95.  I then proceeded to format a disk using the
1.72 MB format.  I then used rawrite to make a copy of the image file.  To
my amazement, it worked!!
     Have you ever heard of Monkey Linux or Trinux?  Trinux is mostly
dedicated to networking, and it uses two disks (a boot and root disk.)  On
the other hand, Monkey Linux is mostly a small 20 MB distribution of
Slackware.  I personally prefer using muLinux.  It's great!  The PPP,
telnet, and ftp servers and clients work.  The e-mail and news clients
actually work, too!!  (I could never accomplish to send mail using Monkey
Linux.)  I hope to present muLinux this coming Wednesday at a Linux User's
Group meeting.
    Do you think it would be possible to release a "HD distribution" of
muLinux?
In other words, is it possible to put the contents of the disk into a
directory,
like muLinux?  And then boot Linux from the Hard Drive, not the floppy=
 system?
I'm just wondering since I have an old Zenith 386 system, which I've=
 dedicated
to running Monkey Linux.  I don't think the Zenith BIOS supports 1.72
formatted
3.5" disks.  Yet, I may be wrong.  If not, please let me know.  Thanks for
your time!

						Sincerely,
						J.R. Pe=F1a
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