DARKLIGHT (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)