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Several people have had problems with the BL2 routine for 
making the two-floppy version of BasicLinux.  Apparently
the 2m floppy format is too demanding for some drives.
So, I have developed a new make_fd routine.  It is similar
to the first make_fd routine (when the BL1 baslinux.gz was 
too big to fit on one floppy), but it has been improved in
several ways.  Hopefully, it will work for everybody.

I would be grateful if some of you would try the new 
routine to see if it works better.  It might even work
on Windows2000 or WindowsXP (I don't have any Windows
machines so I can't check that myself).  If you think
it is an improvement, I will put it in BL 2.04

You will find the new make_fd.zip here:
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http://www.volny.cz/basiclinux/make_fd.zip
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Unzip it in the directory where you have loadlin.exe,
zimage and baslinux.gz.  Then execute:  make_fd.  You 
will need two floppies -- no special preparation is 
required (although you should delete any old files 
on the floppies).

Cheers,
Steven