DistributionWatch Review: PhatLinux - page 2
Is PhatLinux All That and a Bag of Chips?
Obtaining PhatLinux was as easy as obtaining an ISO in the form of a 180MB
.zip file from a LinuxBerg FTP site. (You can also obtain PhatLinux from
FileFarm or the PhatLinux Web site.)
Opening this ISO file under Windows using WINzip yielded a handful of files,
most notably a 681MB Linuxsys.img (a Linux system hard-drive
image), and a README.TXT file. Two key pieces of information were
placed in the README.TXT file–that you must unzip the PhatLinux
package into x:\phat (where x is the destination
drive) and that the root password was phat.
Since Windows 98 and the PhatLinux .ZIP file were both on the C:
drive, I decided to unzip PhatLinux into D:\PHAT. After unpacking
the 180MB zip into 700MB of files (great compression ratio!), I needed to edit
LINUX.BAT--the loader batch file--to match the amount of
memory I had in the system. PhatLinux uses the following line to load
PhatLinux:
loadlin vmlinuz initrd=ramdisk.gz mem=128M
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