Re: [SqueakNOS-cvs] Questions on SqueakNOS

[Gerardo R. <ge...@om...>]

chi...@co... wrote:

> Good day,
> 
> Apologies if this is not the right place to ask questions, or my questions
> have been answered before... 


	It is the right place to ask this questions, so go ahead!

> 	cp Squeak.boot /dev/fd0


	This worked some time ago, when we used a mini image, but now we are
using a full featured Squeak image, and I think Squeak.boot is more like
11 Megs, than 1.44 K :). If you have linux, copy Squeak.boot to your linux
disk, and add something like the following to your lilo.conf:

image=/boot/Squeak.boot
         label=sq


	then run 'lilo' as root, then reboot, and in the boot prompt, answre 'sq'

	If you don't have linux, there may still by a way of doing this with
NT/2000 Boot loader, or using loadlin, but i haven't figured it out yet...

> Also, may I know how SqueakNOS differs from the "Squeak Kernel" as given on
> the Wiki page <http://mathmorphs.swiki.net/57?SID=623278181-3184475180>?


	I don't know much about SqueakOS. SqueakNOS already has video and mouse
capabilities, serial ports and Luciano almost finished a TCP/IP stack, all writen
in Squeak. Again, I don't know much about SqueakOS, but the idea in SqueakNOS is
to do as much as possible in Squeak, and as less as possible in C or Assembler,
this is including video drivers, hard disk and floppy drivers, etc.

	Booting Bye!
	Richie