Sergio Lopez 
slp@fosstodon.org
Remember UMSDOS? UMSDOS was a Linux pseudo-filesystem overlaid on top of a FAT filesystem. All the attributes that couldn't be stored in FAT (actual file name, permission and ownership bits...) were stored on a separate file in the same directory.
It was super-slow, extremely fragile and, well, pretty much a hack. BUT, it allowed many, including myself, to have a "soft" entry to installing Linux at a time when disk space was scarce and repartitioning usually meant losing data.
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Sergio Lopez
slp@fosstodon.org
And, in fact, my first Linux distro was Slackware 3.1, installed in no other place than C:\LINUX 😄
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El Pamplina 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 
ElPamplina@masto.es
@slp ¡Me acuerdo de eso! Funcionaba muy bien. El archivo se llamaba _LINUX_.___ o algo así.
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Sergio Lopez
slp@fosstodon.org
@ElPamplina Bueno, muy bien, lo que se dice muy bien, no lo tengo tan claro 😂
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HAMMER SMASHED FILESYSTEM 🇺🇦
lkundrak@metalhead.club@slp *high four*
me too! we got a stripped down five-floppy version of slackware called monkey mini-linux, that ran from umsdos!
extra floppy with x86-only kernel sources, anyther one with gcc tailored to build it, another with netscape, and yet another with s3 and mach64 x11 servers! it was fantastic!
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Jiri Kastner
indy
dualboot in autoexec.bat :) sweet memories. at work we had scsi iomedia jaz drive (1gb) and iomega zip drive 100mb. i had them formatted as bootable in windows and only autoexec.bat there. few months later bootable cd with installer of red hat 5.1 manhattan for 150 czk.
umsdos replaced by ext2.
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