[BL] BL3 install-to-hd
sindi keesan
keesan at sdf.lonestar.org
Wed Sep 22 18:18:56 EDT 2004
On Wed, 22 Sep 2004, sindi keesan wrote:
> I did install-to-hd from e:\baslin and looked for the promised hd.bat and
> finally found it in c:\baslin (which directory I should probably have deleted
> after I realized that I cannot boot from it with loadlin because I need to
> use loadlin after booting from Win9x DOS floppy disk, which cannot find files
> on the c: drive). If c:\baslin did not exist, I presume the routine would
> have put hd.bat into my d:\baslin (older BL3). Is there some way it can
> detect the current directory and put it there?
> Please add to the routine instructions on how to edit mtab in the new BL3
> hard drive so that you don't get "No more tasks for init - sleeping forever".
> This is enough to make a beginner give up.
The above paragraph is irrelevant. I would not have had problems if I had
a usable c:\baslin directory on this computer but I need to boot with a
floppy disk that then cannot find c:\baslin (or c: anything).
(Hal has one computer with the same problem - loadlin won't work unless
you reboot with Win9x DOS instead of DR-DOS or MS-DOS).
Since I could not access the C: drive which is where install-to-hd put
hd.bat (c:\baslin) I simply copied over the boothd.bat file for BL2 and
changed the partition (from hdb2 for BL2 to hdb1 for BL3). BL2 for some
reason uses ro in its boot file. BL3 uses rw. Why? Does some routine
during boot act differently in the two versions?
With rw substituted for ro BL3 boots to hard drive and I copied over
kermit and telnetted here with kermit (because I use kermit for file
transfer at sdf, since ftp is not available at present).
The modem is working okay now in BL3. 56K external modem with port speed
set down from 115200 to 57600. BL2 can handle the higher speed. Maybe
the older pppd could not? I managed to access several websites with
links-0.90 and change options without losing the connection, for once.
I am ready for Abiword and will try sound, which I just downloaded.
Thanks to everyone.
keesan at sdf.lonestar.org
SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.lonestar.org
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