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- Title: comboot
- Version: 1.0
- Entered-date: 25APR96
- Description: A boot sector for booting DOS-style .COM files.
- Used primarily for making freely redistributable
- network boot floppies under Linux (i.e., ones that
- do not require a copy of DOS on the floppy).
- Keywords: floppy diskette boot sector
- Author: adam@yggdrasil.com (Adam J. Richter)
- Comboot is almost entirely derived from code written
- by Linus Torvalds (torvalds@helsinki.fi),
- Drew Eckhardt (drew@cs.colorado.edu) and Doug Evans.
- Maintained-by: adam@yggdrasil.com (Adam J. Richter)
- Primary-site: ftp.yggdrasil.com:pub/dist/
- Alternate-site: sunsite.unc.edu:pub/Linux/system/Linux-boot
- Original-site:
- Platforms: x86 and floppy disk. Build requires ld86 and as86 programs.
- Copying-policy: GPL
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