[syslinux] [PATCH] Documentation: introduce the working directory

H. Peter Anvin hpa at zytor.com
Wed Jan 12 14:18:47 PST 2011


On 01/12/2011 01:55 PM, Paul Bolle wrote:
>  
> -Use "syslinux.com" (in the dos subdirectory of the distribution) for
> +Use "syslinux.com" (in the DOS subdirectory of the distribution) for
>  plain DOS (MS-DOS, DR-DOS, PC-DOS, FreeDOS...) or Win9x/ME.
>  

The subdirectory is called "dos".

> -This will alter the boot sector on the disk and copy a file named
> -LDLINUX.SYS into its root directory (or a subdirectory, if the -d
> -option is specified.)
> +This will alter the boot sector of that device. A file named LDLINUX.SYS
> +will be copied into its root directory. That root directory will the working
> +directory of LDLINUX.SYS. (If the -d option is given, that file will be copied
> +into the specified subdirectory and that subdirectory will be the working
> +directory of LDLINUX.SYS.)

We probably should lowercase ldlinux.sys, since it's a lower case name
on Unix.

	-hpa




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