Linux from inside DOS: Have your cake and eat it, with BasicLinux on the Pocket 386
You want to have a well-confined Linux installation in which to play around, but without doing harm to your default MS-DOS/Windows 3.11 or Windows 95 installation, e.g. on the « modern vintage » mini-laptop Pocket 386 (as on mine, shown here, ere it perished), and it must not be a dual boot? Then BasicLinux might be just what you have been looking for: a minimized Linux distribution that can be extended using Slackware 4 packages and that runs from loop file* and that can be started with a DOS command — bending the machine to its will, turning it into another Renfield to the Dracula that Linux truly is, until you reboot…
* For those looking for a UMSDOS guide — that comes in a future video, this is not it yet.
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Source by Alone in the Kitchen — by Nino Ivanov
