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  • From: 3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org
  • To: baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [BL] Ted problems
  • Date: Sun, 14 Dec 2003 09:24:21 +1300

Day Brown wrote:
>
> Corel/debian on an IDE, FREEDOS on the SCSI, set to
> boot off the floppy. Leave the floppy out, it boots
> to Linux. Unlike the usual boot menu, I dont havta
> be at the kybd to make the choice, just turn on the pc,
> and either shove the floppy in, or not.

I think it's easier pressing one key (from the boot menu)
than inserting a floppy (and remembering to remove it).
Boots much faster too.

> All my own writing sits on the dos drive where no online
> sabotage software can ever do anything to it.

format c:/u ?

> the half life of a 'resuce floppy' is about 3 weeks.

And the half life of your DOS boot floppy is ???

> can BL access an ext3? or only ext2?

The default BL2 zimage (kernel) does not do ext3. However,
you can replace it with a bzimage that does (you'll probably
need new modules as well).

Cheers,
Steven







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