971203DARKLIGHT (perhaps a paradoxical word) is my ThinkPad 365XD DSTN with Linux. 971203 Upgrade to 24Mbytes of RAM. Finally I have an ext2 partition for Linux.(50/50 with W95). Tunned kernel 2.0.30 + dmsdos 0.80.0pl9. Added a PCMCIA IDE 1Gbyte hard drive. With DMSDOS and loop module I get access of any DoubleSpace compressed drive, including if it is saved in a CD-W. (I have a dblspace file with my old UMSDOS Linux tree saved in a CD-W) Good patch Xcyber to recover the screen after exit XFree. (see at http://www.seriat.fr/~mentre/365xd/index.html) PCMCIA Ethernet adaptor works also. Date from my ThinkPad Setup: Model/subm/rev FC/01/00 BIOS 91G1787 (05/15/96) APM 1.05 BIOS 1.08 Video 1.00 Setup 1.02 Slave ctrl 1.09 Missing: sound and APM hybernation that don't work. 970522 Slackware 3.0 UMSDOS over original W95 installation. 8M RAM + 16M swap. Compiled Kernel 2.0.30 with APM and DMSDOS 0.8. See configuration. With APM I get Linux hibernation, what saves a lot of time. With DMSDOS I can browse (read-only for safe) the dblspace compressed drivers of W95, what saves a lot of space. X86Free 2.0 on a 800x600 DSTN. See XF86Config. OpenLook is my favorite windows manager. future plans: Zip a minimal umsdos system (a linux on a little file). Quickcam driver to get pictures to ilustrate this page. Well, I have some pictures of it: "The Darklight"; "Darklight & Linux". PPP connection. Note: I know that UMSDOS is not the best filesystem for Linux. I know that W95 is not the best OS. But, if I don't want the risks of partitioning, if I want to keep W95 applications running, then UMSDOS is nice for me. Perhaps some day everybody forgets W95. jnl@hotmail.com
(Larry Ewing's Penguin at lewing@isc.tamu.edu)