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  • From: Terry Maiden <t.maiden AT att.net>
  • To: <itfactor36 AT gmail.com>, <baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [BL] An unusual project . .
  • Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2016 16:24:57 +0000 (UTC)

I still read this list and I occasionally still play around with baslinux.

On a previous topic where the gentleman could not get a network connection
with QEMU I wonder what version of QEMU he is using?

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On Thu, 11/17/16, itfactor36 <itfactor36 AT gmail.com> wrote:

Subject: Re: [BL] An unusual project . .
To: baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org
Date: Thursday, November 17, 2016, 10:10 AM


On Mon, 10 Oct 2016 01:03:09 +1100, Philip Rhoades wrote:
>>> I wonder if anyone else is still reading this
mail list.
>> Doesn't look like it . .

"Ron Clarke" <ariadne AT ausreg.com>
wrote:
> I still read this mail list.
> And I still have working BL distros, but I now mostly
use DOS and Slackware 14.2

Another good use-case scenario for keeping around both
DOS and working BL distros is to uniquely keep these on
really small but NON-DEFECTIVE 20GB or less IDE (EIDE)
hdd's that are suprisingly still around. Having a
bootable DOS 6.2 on such an hdd is useful for some of those
DOS-based flash-BIOS firmware utilities that a few
manufacturers keep around for their older motherboards.
Having BL distros around on such hdd's is incredibly
useful for various system utilities such as repartitioning,
wiping data off of, and/or thoroughly scanning other
attached hdd's for physically defects.

OTOH, on such older, lower-capacity hdd's
with DOS and BL, wouldn't really need to install
Slackware 14.2 or even use some small "live"-type
distro on themĀ  (e.g., using Tom's Root Boot floppy,
Damn Small Linux, Tiny Core Linux...etc.)



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