Development History and Kernel/distribution Support
Most of the major Linux distributions, including RedHat, SuSE, and Debian, do not employ umsdos to permit installation of Linux on a FAT disc volume. A few distributions do, however. These include distributions such as Phat Linux, a distribution created by two schoolchildren which installs in C:\PHAT on DOS by unpacking a ZIP file and is booted by running a COMMAND.COM script named LINUX.BAT, and ZipSlack.
The UMSDOS project was started in 1992 by Jacques Gelinas and made available to the net in January 1994 as a patch. It was included in the standard distribution starting with kernel 1.1.36. UMSDOS was removed from the Linux 2.6.11 kernel for lack of maintenance. UVFAT, an extension of UMSDOS to use the Windows data structures for long filenames instead of its own, was discontinued before release. They should work in 2.4.x kernels.
Earlier Linux distributions which used UMSDOS are MuLinux, Monkey Linux and Winlinux 2000.
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