[vox] Installing Linux in a file inside a Windows parition (Was Re: Need to use a computer running Linux for 1-2 hours)

[Christopher James McKenzie]

It's called BasLin ... it runs on a 285+ with 3MB of RAM.  It has MGR 
and X.  It's still pretty usable.

Gabriel G. Rosa wrote:
> On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 11:28:26AM -0700, Bill Kendrick wrote:
>> On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 09:35:09PM -0700, Gabriel G. Rosa wrote:
>>> I'd recommend saving media, and going with QEMU[1] or Virtualbox[2]
>>> (both of which run on windows) and installing a throw-away distribution[3]
>> I hear that Ubuntu's installer now comes with a feature that lets you use
>> some space in your Windows partition as a 'host' for your Linux installation,
>> therefore removing the need to repartition the drive, or install a second
>> drive.  That's pretty hot.
>>
>> Anyone got a link to the technology behind that? (I'm guessing it's not
>> Ubuntu-specific, but just something they happen to be using and touting.)
>>
> 
> Heh. I remember being able to do something similar in 1996 on some
> floppy-based distro I don't even remember the name of. You could put the
> entire install in a DOS directory, and it would do some translation magic
> to map it to look like a unix fs. You could boot directly from DOS too
> (or use a boot floppy).
> 
> That's about all I remember.
> 
> -Gabe
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