[SunRescue] Tape drive

James Sharp rescue at sunhelp.org
Sun May 20 13:04:43 CDT 2001


> Now, the one Novel system I ever used, I know that I saw the thing booting
> into DOS before it went into Novell.  Maybe it was just doing something
> like loadlin (which is a dos program that boots linux), but I got the
> distinct impression that Novell was running as a 32bit dos program.

Its sort of doing that, Novell takes complete control of the system but by
default leaves DOS in a chunk of memory so you can actually exit back to
DOS when you down the server.  However, you can type "remove dos" at the
server console and it removes DOS from memory and gives that memory back
to the main cache buffer...so its not really a DOS application.  When you
down the server with dos removed, it reboots.




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