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[Sindi Keesan <keesan AT iamjlamb.com>]

On Sun, 25 Jan 2004, russ loroville wrote:

I don't have those two programs, nor are they in the make_fd.bat that I 
have.  Nothing about strange noises.  There is a split.exe that is used to 
cut one large file into two pieces, part1 and part2, so that both floppy 
disks end up holding about 1.2M of files.  This would in theory let you 
use 5.25" 1.2M floppy disks to install (not that I know of any machines 
that are 486 and don't have 1.44M floppy drives).


My .bat file says nothing about strange noises, nor do I hear any.

I got the BL2 zip file I think some time in late fall and the make_fd.bat 
is dated June 5, 2004.  The hard drive has two files part1 and part2 with 
today's date.  What files ended up on the two disks in the working 
2-floppy version?  Maybe I can just copy them manually?  But part2 does 
not seem to load properly (or copy properly in most cases).


> Maybe Steven didn't use those programs in the latest install, but I sure
> do  have them in mine. The following is the actual Make_fd.bat part that
> has 2m.com and 2mf.exe: ->------------------------------
>                                                        |
> echo ======================                            |
> echo.                                                  |
> echo Insert second floppy in drive A:                  |
> echo.                                                  |
> pause                                                  |
> 2m >nul           <------------*here*                < -
> 2mf /k /j         <------------*and here***          < -
> echo.
> echo Writing root file to floppy
> echo ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> echo You may hear some strange noises.  This is normal.
> echo.
> copy baslinux.gz a:
> echo.
> echo.
> echo To boot BasicLinux, insert first floppy and reset computer.
> :end
> echo.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Sun, 25 Jan 2004, Sheldon Isaac wrote:
> 
> > On 25 Jan 2004 at 18:08, russ loroville wrote:
> > > They are in my Make_fd.bat. You have to look carefully in the bottom, 
> > > its
> > > easy to miss in Make_fd.bat. They are the programs that format the 
> > > 1.44mb
> > > floppy to 2mb floppy that allows the 1.7mb Baslinux.gz file to be put on
> > > the 1.44mb floppy.
> >

Thanks for dating your file - mine is the same date.  Did you manage to
make a 2-floppy version that worked?  It looks like Steven switched from
2m.com to split.exe at some point without changing the version numbers.  
He will have an interesting problem to tackle when it is morning there.
Perhaps there is something we have to do in order to put the two parts 
back together into one file?

I might take a few days off from linux.  Tomorrow is my very last
chemotherapy (assuming it all worked) and I won't get much sleep for a few
days, so please nobody be insulted if I don't follow your good advice for
a few days.  I really appreciate all this help.  Basiclinux and the mail
list have helped keep me from going crazy while I avoid 'real' people
because my immune system gets knocked out 10 days out of 20 and I don't 
dare get the flu.  

> > I looked in the MAKE_FD.ZIP of 6/5/03; no 2m.com or 2mf.exe.
> >
> > Where did you get them?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Sheldon Isaac
> >