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Date: Mon, 5 Sep 2011 12:33:41 +0000 (UTC)
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Christian Gmeiner <christian.gmeiner <at> gmail.com> writes:

> 
> Hi all,
[...]
> Now I run in some troubles as I need to be able to boot a MSDOS
> application stored on
> an usb stick. [...]
> Are there some creative/working solutions for my problem?
> 

How about some DOS emulator (e.g. DosEmu or DosBox) (if you really
have to run DOS program(s) and absolutely can't recompile/rewrite it for 
Linux...) - but if you need low-level hw access I think you'd better
create a kernel module...

> thanks
> --
> Christian Gmeiner, MSc
> 

L.