muLinux (µ-Linux) is a full-configured, minimalistic, almost complete, application-centric tiny distribution of Linux made in Italy, fitted on a single 1722K floppy.
Its aim is to demonstrate the power and scalability of
this operating system. The 2.0.36 kernel is compiled for the 386
(without co-processor) and
modularized as much as possible. The binaries are taken from the
dozens of distibutions and boot-floppies on my 3 big
hard-disks. Are you wondering why I chose a particular binary,
When I had two of them with the same name? I simply took the smallest
and the one which needs only libc.so.5.
I won't bother you telling about
all the dirty hacks to save space: it's enough for you to know
that I rewrote in C the expr command, because I couldn't understand
why it takes 50328 bytes when I can do the same job with only 4586
bytes. I even substituted grep with sed and other similar stuff.
muLinux is not intended for the generic mouse-based user, who wouldn't be very
Happy with its spartan interface, but for the Linux
fan in general, or the curious person who wants to look inside
scripts to understand why an hack as muLinux sendmail
(only 1216 bytes) is really able
to deliver mail with the correct return-address. Moreover, a
portable Linux would be ideal in a number of situations: maintenance
in different places, as a demonstration, as embeddable system
or just to see it booting at times, for no particular reason.
Most PC hardware will work fine. The very minimum is a 386 with 8MB of
RAM: installing muLinux with only 4MB is russian roulette. A math coprocessor
is NOT required since mulinuz has math emulation built in.
A hard-disk in not required. Of course, you can mount the existing partitions on your hard-disks if you want. SCSI disks are not directly supported because of the huge variety of controller cards. If you want SCSI support please read How can I personalize muLinux?
In order to configure and control all resources , muLinux has a script
(setup, see setup -h ) which is able to read (setup -r) and write
(setup -s)
muLinux profiles to and from the floppy, the
type of keyboard, ethernet data, where the mouse and modem are located,
which modules the kernel has to load at each boot, the phone number of
your ISP, and so on. Thank God, you only have to bother with this profile
the first time you boot the floppy. The user, however,
is able to type a command like setup -f ppp or setup -f net
each time he wants (-f means "force"). Or, if you want, you can
type setup -f -a, where -a means "all". In order to use the
floppy in various positions, the setup command manages
a sort of "multi-configuration". You are able to switch from
one profile
to another one whenever you want. You can save different
profiles with different names. For example, with setup -r "home"
you can load a profile with only ppp support; with setup -r
"pc12" you can load a profile for an ethernet card and the IP for
PC #12. All this stuff resides in the /init directory of
the BOOT segment, while the current profile resides in /setup.
When muLinux boot, setup ask you for a profile to load. Special config name are "NONE" and "lock": with NONE, setup skip any operation and if your last saved config is named "lock", setup load them without confirm.
With setup command, you can also load in memory a
compressed modules: setup -m module_name and, starting from 10r0 release,
it support also command line mode. See help.
Starting from version 2.0, muLinux is able to install itself not only in RAM, but permanently into a DOS directory (UMSDOS installation) or into a free partion of your hard-disk (EXT2 installations). You only need about 8-10M of free space somewhere on your hard-disk.
To perform this kind of installation, the muLinux kernel comes
with UMSDOS and DOS support, and we added loadlin.exe
to the floppy. In both cases, we use loadlin to boot muLinux, so
it is necessary to start from the DOS prompt with the command
linux.bat. The reason behind this choice is that muLinux was
built to be used temporarly on PCs which we do not own: we must
perform non-invasive and easily removable installations.
UMSDOS installation realizes this concept: you can share disk
space between Linux and DOS; you do not have to repartition hard-disks
and you can remove it without particular effort.
EXT2 installation, on the contrary, is just a curiosity and it is
the only intrinsecally dangerous one: muLinux will have to format the
chosen partition (like every Linux installation floppy) and it is possible
For a novice user to chose the wrong partition. By the way, if you
really have a spare partition sufficiently big, why don't you install
a true Linux?
Release > 5.1 support also another kind of DOS-based
installation: the loop filesystem. This feature uses the so-called
"loop Linux device", a whole filesystem embedded in a normal DOS
file, located in c:\linux.
At this point you will be asking about the title of this
section. Actually, what we described until now are not real
installations but actually a cloning process. The entire muLinux
filesystem (even mounted devices) is copied (with cp -a, that's
true!) into the chosen destination.
Just a few word of advice: do not leave your cd-rom or any NFS volume mounted while cloning mulinux if you do not want the entire universe being replicated into your DOS partition!
Cloned muLinux systems work just as normal systems mounted in RAM. Setup and autoconfiguration procedures are consistent between the three installation modalities. The user will not notice any difference. This feature makes muLinux different from similar floppy-Linux offerings, which have a stronger link with the floppy.
Starting from 7r4 release, a new kind of cloning (via /bin/roclone) is provided. This is primarily for to embed a frozen copy of active filesystem in a (maybe read-only, bootable) media, with DOS campatible formatting. Usefull for clone on Iomega ZIP, CD-R (El-Torrito mechanism) and other removable media (SCSI devices supported).
From a technical point of view, all happen in usually way, but
after booting muLinux try to mount own USR segment from
a removable device, probing in turn CDROM IDE, CDROM Scsi, ZIP floppy
and other. If succeded, muLinux mount the USR image
(a normal file in the boot/ directory) using
the loopback Linux device and uses a mixed filesystem
arrangement: RAMDISKs and read-only media togheter.
SRV addon mounted is required, for this functionality. Tested on IOMEGA Zip and HP CD-Writer M820 devices by myself.
The cloning process (see
muLinux and the sheep Dolly), which can be run by the user with the clone command at
any time, will automatically start when the system recognizes that there
is insufficient RAM available (<4M).
In this case, muLinux stays at "runlevel 3" (only the /bin
commands available), immediately creates a swap file in the DOS
partition, and starts cloning itself without delay.
When you see the message Automatic reboot in progress, extract
the floppy and start DOS. At the dos prompt cd into c:\linux
and start linux.bat: the cloned muLinux will soon be up and
running.
The first boot of this new system is exhausting like the pains of a
childbirth: if
muLinux realizes that some components are missing (typically
/usr and X11), it starts copying them from floppy to HD.
If instead you manually cloned muLinux starting from a RAM-mounted
system already configured, the cloned system will already be complete.
Beware that on a 386 with 4M the entire cloning process and "re-animation" can take more than 15 minutes the very first time, but you will then be able to see XWindow starting on your 386!
Starting from version 3.0, code-name "Hammameth", muLinux is able to install its root filesystem via NFS (Network File System), provided you have a working LAN-server supporting this traditional TCP/IP protocol.
The nfsroot-service is configured with the usual setup procedure (see The setup command): muLinux will ask to configure the Ethernet parameters and to specify the nfs_root, i.e. the remote directory containing a Linux system (which can also be a copy of muLinux).
muLinux kernel was slightly modified in order to mount the "real root" only after the configuration of the variuos network drivers: muLinux kernel is modular, so it is not possible to configure these drivers via the usual boot parameters (nfsroot= and nfsaddrs=). The patch is so tiny (just one line) that it can be the subject of an email or it can be written on a stamp!
For example, suppose your muLinux clients have IP addresses given by (in dot-notation) 192.168.1.x, and that the nfs_root is /remote/root. The /etc/exports on the server could be something like
#/etc/exports
/remote/root 192.168.1.0/255.255.255.0(rw,no_root_squash)
Once you saved the profile on the floppy (with your favourite name, for example "nfs"), the next time muLinux is booted you only have to request this "nfs" profile: muLinux will configure the network drivers and mount the nfs_root.
If the remote system is itself a muLinux system, it is possible that at the first boot the "remote" muLinux will ask you to restart the setup one more time. Forgive him: how can he know that you already answered all those questions?
In order to prepare the remote system it is enough copying the entire muLinux tree into the server's /remote/root. Another solution is exporting the entire server's root (THIS SOLUTION IS NOT SAFE).
If you have a spare EXT2 partition on the server (/dev/hdb1 for instance), you can also prepare it with a working Linux distribution and export it to the workstations. In this case it is enough to mount this partition at boot time (place the line "mount -t ext2 /dev/hdb1 /remote/root" into one of the server's boot scripts) in order to make it available to the clients. The clients' /etc/fstab should contain something like
/dev/nfs / ext2 defaults 1 1
If the client needs swap space, it must use a local disk: muLinux kernel is not able (at this time) to swap via NFS.
For machines with low memory (less than 4M of ram), the boot process is slightly changed: muLinux will immediately ask if you want to clone the system to disk (like previous versions), or if you want to mount root via NFS. With little effort it is possible to transform your 386 into a diskless workstation based on Linux+XWindow. This solution is very cheap and efficient for many schools with obsolete computer labs (like many Technical Institues you can find in Italy).
______________________________
__|__ ___|___
| | local network | | ______ PPP-link to provider
| PC | 192.168.1.0 | Linux |--|modem |------------------>
| | | Router| |______| x.x.x.x
|_____| |_______| (dynamic IP-address)
pppd
IP filtering firewall is designed to control the flow of packets
based the source, destination, port and packet type.
In muLinux (version > 2.7, setup ipfwadm) You can
enable IP masquerade feature and IP generic protection
on a Linux server, allowing connected computers (running TCP/IP,
but without registered Internet address) to connect to the Internet
through your muLinux box.
The floppy is made up of 1722 blocks of size 1024K. It is logically divided into three parts:
An ext2 non-compressed (i.e. mountable) file-system. It
will be mounted under /startup;
A gzipped ext2
file-system image, obviously mounted under /;
A
bzipped ext2 file-system image. It will be mounted under
/usr.
The X11 floppy addon (1772K) is, instead, in tarred+bzipped (tbz) format.
The kernel is loaded, as usual, via LILO. When the kernel is loaded,
it executes /sbin/init. BOOT is mounted from the floppy
under /startup, while USR is mounted under /usr
as ramdisk. Accessing /startup we are able to permanently
save to floppy our muLinux profile: see section
The setup command.
Startup scripts take also care about creating a fourth partition into
RAM, loaded under /tmp.
The Linux kernel has a limited capability to accept information at boot in ther form of var=value entry. In general, this is used to supply the kernel with information about hardware parameters.
Boot-prompt arguments typically only apply to hardware drivers that are compiled directly into kernel, so in muLinux this feature is rarely useful.
If You, at "boot:" prompt, press [SHIFT] or [TAB] key, LILO waits for the name of a boot image (in our case: mulinux) and pass command-line options to the kernel. Example:
boot: mulinux root=/dev/hdb2 vga=extended
This is a brief list usable with muLinux kernel:
specifcs the VGA text mode: normal (80x25), extended (80x50), or "ask".
mount this device as root partition.
specifics the name of init program to execute, ex. /bin/sh, or /bin/rc.1,etc. This is useful for recovery purpose.
specifics the amount of installed memory (if BIOS report is bad).
avoid muLinux root loading.
If You want to supply an alternate mountable root floppy, instead of muLinux standard ramdisk (low-memory system) you can type:
boot: mulinux load_ramdisk=0
The kernel ask you "Insert ROOT floppy ..."
If You want mount an existing EXT2 root partition, type:
boot: mulinux root=/dev/hd...
This list is always a work in progress: whenever I free space on the floppy the list will grow.
Release >4.2 comes with a set of mini-apps, based on "muless", a less-like programmable ncurses interface:
RNA, mail & news reader; Pion, File Manager with FTP and rustic VFS support; whois, looks up records in the Network Information Center
(NIC) database;info, System info; help, small "hypertextual" help system;mon, resource monitor (/proc based); muhex, an hexadecimal editor (v>5.3)
/bin/ash: I know it's ugly, but it is much smaller than
bash and it's the same as far as scripts are concerned. "Command history"
approximated support with ile.
None really. help interactive command (VAX style)
is available. Some true man pages are in GCC floppy addon.
elvis tiny (standard UNIX vi clone)
and ae Antony Editor (but this on X11 floppy).
Many national keyboard mappings. Codepages: 437,850.
Serial mouse. Bus Mouse: PS/2 (aux port style): /dev/psaux; Logitech BUS Mouse: /dev/logibm; Microsoft BUS Mouse: /dev/inportbm. gpm mouse server (v>6.0, SRV).
Dos, UMSDOS, Windows, vfat, NFS
(nfs.o module), WfW/NT fs share Samba/SMB (smbfs.o module),
cdrom (isofs.o module). Commands like mount, smbmount,
umount, fdisk, fdformat, df, free, mkfs.ext2,
[e2fsck].
ls, cp, mv, gzip, gunzip, bzip2, bunzip2, more, less, stty,
zless, zcat, cmp, find (emulated),
grep,fgrep (emulated), sed, tr (rewritten),
date, basename (emulated),
dirname (emulated), pidof (emulated),
ee editor, dd, od (emulated),
file (emulated), pr (emulated), du (emulated),
expr (rewritten), setserial,
tar, insmod, rmmod, lsmod, m4 macro processor,
bc calculator (emulated with awk) etc.
Release > 4.2 comes with awk language and a set of new classical UNIX
command based on them, like: sort, uniq, tail, etc.
I dreamt of not
including gzip and using the z option of tar. But tar only
gunzips...
You won't find either zip or unzip: these are rather big. Maybe
in the future.
lp.o module, by request plus a simple lpr
with escape codes (no spooler). muLinux support only ASCII,
POSTSCRIPT (i.e. Apple Laserwriter) and
HP-PCL (i.e. Laserjet) printer, but print only this format: ascii, pgm,
tiff (g3,fax). Starting from 4.0 release, muLinux support also
remote UNIX printers, BSD style (contributed by
Tom Poindexter (tpoindex@nyx.net). Starting from 6r3 release muLinux
support an LPD server, contributed by
Steve Flynn (smflynn@ozemail.com.au): a little C program which
understand the traditional BSD lpd printer protocol (RFC1179).
Enabling this daemon, your host may act as a simple Print Server
or Print Sharer for UNIX machines, for WinNT ( using "Microsoft
TCP/IP Printing" driver) or for Windows 95/98 (using a FREE program,
called ACITS LPR )
Timeout is used by the drive to determine how long to wait (with no disk activity) before turning off the spindle motor to save power.
ifconfig, route, ipfwadm for
masqueranding & forwanding processes, ping,
finger, traceroute, trafshow(tcpdump). ftpget (a small FTP client, suitable for scripting),
telnet(emulated), rlogin, finger (emulated)
and netcat, a general purpose TCPUDP port scanner.sniffit packet sniffer and monitoring toolnmap (rustic) network mapper ssh Secure Shell (on WKS addon)
Cards supported: 3c509,
ne (NE1000, NE2000, and many clones), ne2k-pci (PCI ne2000 clones),
wd (WD8003, WD8013), smc-ultra, 3c59x ( the 3Com "Vortex"
and "Boomerang" series ethercards,Fast EtherLink 3c590/3c592/3c595/3c597,
XL 3c900 and 3c905 cards), ...,
but the modules are on the floppy.
You just have to gzip your own module, and put it on the floppy. See section
How can I personalize muLinux? for further details.
Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol; muLinux (>4.2) support
a dhcpcd configured client. DHCP allows
hosts on a TCP/IP network to request and be assigned IP
addresses, and also to discover information about the net-
work to which they are attached.
ppp.o, serial.o and slhc.o modules;
chat and pppd commands. Configuration is automatic and you
start PPP typing pppd or ppp-on, ppp-off.
PPP mulinux setup also provide a way
to link together two PCs (or a local network to the Internet),
via null-modem serial cable.
muLinux (hyper-rustic) diald is a daemon based on an IP accounting's hack. Enabling diald, muLinux detected outgoing DNS request to some remote NAMESERVER (port 53) and start PPP (or what you want, of course)
the traditional UNIX command scheduler.
A fetchmail only a few K, perfectly
working, with the -F (flush) option, but also a true
fetchpop.
A sendmail compatible with the
real one, wich support smarthost and offline processing.
I tested it with pine from my "big" Linux. You can use the
From: field you prefer (-f option).
Mail processing with RNA Messenger,
symlink `mail` (offline supported).
RNA, newsreader mode + suck (pull small newsfeed from
usenet; emulated with scripts).
Starting from 7.0, mulinux support inetd, wu-ftpd, in.rlogind. Multi-user is now enabled, with login and password.
Starting from 7.0 release, muLinux support PCMCIA card (SRV addon). Tested on IBM Thinkpad with 3c589 card and ACER Extensa 5027, with ne2000 compatible card.
miterm command, similar to minicom, for remote
modem session.agetty (dialin session) and efax (send, receive fax)
A fax script allows You to make,send,receive and print fax files, with
efax packages (C) Ed. Casas. Tested with USR Sportster 3.66, but will
work with any modem, I hope.
sound.o module (SoundBlaster) and PC-Speaker module+patch
(by Michale Beck). On my PC the SoundBlaster works. In
some cases it may be necessary to give the kernel extra optionsmpg123 to play MPEG files (layers 1-2-3) (X11 addon)vplay to play .wav filesvrec to record with your microphone.playcd to listen to cd.wave waveform generator..au files directly to /dev/audio
lynx, version 2.6
a fully-featured World Wide Web (WWW) client for users running
cursor-addressable, character-cell display devices (e.g., vt100
terminals, vt100 emulators running on PCs or Macs, or any other
character-cell display). It will display Hypertext Markup Language
(HTML) documents containing links to files on the local system, as
well as files on remote systems running http, gopher, ftp, wais, nntp,
finger, or cso/ph/qi servers, and services accessible via logins to
telnet, tn3270 or rlogin accounts.
sed, muless, m4 and netcat. Its one and only
notable feature is its size in bytes: 3713.
rpost (emulated), and inews (emulated)
used by Lynx for newsgroup posting. Chimera graphical Web Browser (in X11 addon)
Starting from release 2.3, muLinux comes with some rustic "servers and daemons" support. A muLinux server is, generally, a shell script (often netcad based) running via init(8) at "runlevel 5", without inetd. Servers shutdown with "init s" and restarts with "init 5"; "init q" update the init(8) status. This list will grow, I hope.
Pygmy WWW server, a simple httpd server (2202 bytes), supporting
multi-connections,download and directory browsing. Try with
lynx://localhost/. Recents releases run also a CGI capable HTTP server
(thttpd) and comes with a nice CGI front-end to internal setup engine (mu-RCP).
atd) daemon for deferred execution (command like
at,atq,atrm).
fortune (classical Linux fortunes, in latino),
paganini, piano (sound games)
reverse, blue (solitaires).
carbo (crypto games)
TicTacToe , forza4 (solitaires).
No comment.
The mu -i command supports creation of various floppy models, of
size 1440K or 1770K. For example, the two floppy model
BOOT+ROOT(1722K) and USR(1722K), allows to increment the number of
binaries put in ROOT (/bin) and in USR (/usr/bin).
The model BOOT+ROOT(1440K) and USR(1722K) boots much more rapidly.
mu -i has a drawback: DOS-installers cannot choose the model
but they must accept the default BOOT+ROOT+USR on a single 1722K floopy.
This is because LILO is not available as a DOS program.
Tecnically, building a floppy is just a command similar to
cat BOOT ROOT > /dev/fd0, but LILO is necessary to modify the MBR.
I do not know a simple way to do this under DOS (without LILO).
Finally I don't think that distributing a BOOT.1440 and a BOOT.1722 would be a good idea.
See also the file doc/custom.txt in dist archive.
Neccessary kernel functionality to do 'mu -r':
- loopback device support
The right versions of 'fdformat', 'lilo' and 'bzip2' are included.
The root partition resides on the floppy, split into two parts (see
section
What happens at boot time?):
The first part (ROOT) just
contains the directory structure (/bin, /lib, etc.)
The first thing to do if you want to build a custom muLinux is
to unpack the BOOT,ROOT,USR and X11 images with the command mu -u.
It will unpack the BOOT partition under subdirectory tree/startup
and ROOT+USR+X11 under subdirectory tree/.
Now, add, wipe, replace commands as you like.
If you want to change the kernel, compile it with make zImage and
copy it under tree/startup/boot/mulinuz.
The necessary modules must be
gzipped and copied in tree/startup/modules/archive.tbz
(see tree/startup/modules/README,
for details).
It is often necessary to specify parameters like io, irq and so on
when you
load a module. If your X.o module needs extra parameters just
write them into tree/startup/modules/X.param, remembering that
muLinux loads modules with a command equivalent to this
insmod X.o `cat X.param`
Please note that you have to compile ext2, DOS, UMSDOS file-system support
and ramdisk support directly into the kernel because they are
needed at boot time for UMSDOS muLinux models.
If you look into the mu script you will find a variable called
BOOT_FREE: with it you can tune the free space you want on the BOOT
partition, where all configurations are saved permanently and
where you may want to save you emails for instance.
Custom keymaps are located under tree/startup/init,
in keymap.tgz.
See tree/startup/init/README for customization instructions.
You can save a mailrc and/or a bookmars.html
into tree/startup/init.
/usr/bin directoryYou will find the contents of this directory under tree/usr/bin.
You may change this directory without restrictions. If you ran out of space
this is the place to look if you want to purge commands. Remember that lynx is the biggest executable on the floppy.
When you finished customizing muLinux just type
mu -r
mu -x # this if for X11 subsection
This addon consists, basically, of the VGA-16 XServer, the fvwm95-2, Afterstep
and wm2 Window-Manager and the XFM Application & File Manager.
muLinux mounts the content of this floppy (approximately 4.2M not compressed) under
/usr/X11R6. You will find the new binaries and libraries into
/usr/X11R6/bin and /usr/X11R6/lib.
Configuration files are located under /usr/X11R6/lib/X11, the initial choice of X11R6 developers.
Maybe you want to take a look at the following files:
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/XF86Config: configuration of the X server;/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fvwm95-2/*: fvwm configuration files;/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/afterstep/*: afterstep configuration files;/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xfm/*: xfm configuration.The XKB feature is disabled: national keyboards are directly exported into X. Finally, a lot of fonts were simply deleted.
Anyway, you will find these X programs: xcalc, xclock, xload, xhost, xmodmap, xsetroot, xinit, xcal, xmixer, pyro, xsnow and xterm (rxvt).
xterm can be used to run every text-mode muLinux command (lynx, minicom,
workbone, etc...). xhost is interesting because it allows the local X server to display applications running on a remote workstation.
If you have 16-32M of avalaible RAM, X will run at a terrific speed!!!!
Approximative list:
- full PCMCIA support
- multiuser support
- lilo & syslinux bootmanager
- the UPX compressor
- thttpd Web Server
- inetd, ftpd, telnetd, rshd and other daemons
- rdate (set date from a remote server)
- Smail: a sendmail replacement
- The Samba Suite, v1.9.18a (smbd, nmbd, smbclient)
- Lynx 2.6, the popular UNIX web browser
- MC, the Midnight Commander
- Mutt, a small and powerfull text-based Mail user agent
- PGP 2.6.3i RSA/IDEA encryption system
- multimedia: mkisofs, cdrecord, cdda2wav,sox
- generic: su, id, ftp(client),zip/unzip, diff/patch
- ssh: the secure shell
XVnc X-Server (from Virtual Network Computing) and relative clients; SVGA-lib; zgv thumbnail image viewer. X11 required.
An add-on floppy for muLinux to add a healthy mix of application programs written in Tcl/Tk. Requires the muLinux X11 add-on, as most Tcl programs included are X11 based. Author: Tom Poindexter, tpoindex@nyx.net.
LaTex: TeX typesetting system for UNIX-like systems, with AMSTex (from American Mathematical Society) package, dvips, xdvi, etc. The addon contains also Lyx: the popular X frontend to LaTex.
This addon can be used as tool for emergency professional typesetting, if you work as sturm-reporter in some war-zone, around the world, and wish urgently to rewrote the "Book 8th, Conic's Section" of Apollonio di Perga (never found; I'm curiousus).
In this 1722K floppy, coming with 4.0 release, some utitily for C developers.
as -- the portable GNU assembler.gcc -- GNU project C Compiler (v2.7.0)cpp -- The GNU C-Compatible Compiler Preprocessormake -- GNU make utility to maintain groups of programsld -- the GNU linkerldd -- print shared library dependenciesldconfig -- determine run-time link bindingsstrip -- discard symbols from object files.flex -- fast lexical analyzer generator ("lex" replacement)bison -- GNU Project parser generator (yacc replacement)f2c -- FORTRAN to C translator. p2c -- turbo-PASCAL to C translator. qb2c -- Quick-BASIC to C translator (source package) g48 -- C to RPN (Reverse Polish) translator for HP48G ddsbasic -- a small BASIC interpreter (6372 bytes!)
(source package)
(Release > 11) It is now possible to compile kernel modules for the serie 2.0.*. I tested using sample modules form 1) "Linux Kernel Module Prog. Guide", by Ori Pomerantz and 2) "Linux Device Drivers", by A. Rubini.
Demo sources in /gcc/usr/src.
This is the muLinux EMU(lators) addon. It contains:
-- DOSEMU v0.66, the Linux DOS Emulator -- WINE v981018, the Linux Windows Emulator -- mtools v3.8, DOS commands in the Linux box
Because most of this programs requires libc6 and libX11 to works, this addon depend from the PERL and X11 addons. Wine, on the other hand, requires XWindow up and running; DOSEMU, doesn't.
The addon is mounted on /usr/emu. Please, look in the directories /usr/doc/help and /usr/emu/doc for more info.
-- DOSEMU starts typing 'dos' (see dos -h) -- WINE starts typing 'wine' (see wine -h) -- swap is strongly suggested running WINE
Alert! DOSEMU and WINE are alpha software; they can crash/destroy your DOS/WIN9x installations: handle with care.
This document was written in SGML, and then rendered using the sgml-tools package.
You can find the latest version of this document at http://sunsite.auc.dk/mulinux/.
End of the MuLinux README. (You can stop reading here.)