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[Sindi Keesan <keesan AT iamjlamb.com>]

On Sun, 25 Jan 2004, Sheldon Isaac wrote:

> On 25 Jan 2004 at 18:59, Sindi Keesan wrote:
> > Thanks for dating your file - mine is the same date.  Did you manage to
> > make a 2-floppy version that worked?
> 

My disks have almost the same files but won't load part2.  Russ, does your
2-floppy set work (if you made one)?

I also have an AMD-300 with 64M RAM that I put together but have not put 
linux on yet.  It is my fastest computer.  Someone put the motherboard at 
the curb two years ago.  I think it is 1998.  We added RAM and a case and 
drives and cards.  

> I looked around, and found the two floppy disks.
> Here's what's on them.
> 
> The first floppy has:
> 
> IBMBIO   COM        22,100  03-18-87 12:00p IBMBIO.COM
> IBMDOS   COM        30,159  03-17-87 12:00p IBMDOS.COM
These two files are there but hidden.
> COMMAND  COM        25,307  03-17-87 12:00p COMMAND.COM
> VDISK    SYS         8,227  06-03-03  4:11p VDISK.SYS
> CONFIG   SYS            26  06-03-03  4:26p CONFIG.SYS
> AUTOEXEC BAT           361  09-21-03 11:10p AUTOEXEC.BAT
> CONTINUE BAT           248  09-21-03 11:11p CONTINUE.BAT
> LOADLIN  EXE        32,225  09-02-02  2:10p LOADLIN.EXE
> BZIMAGE            735,763  09-20-03  7:40p BZIMAGE

>>>>>>>>>>**********I have zimage not bzimage, 512K not 735K.
There is a bzimage in my DOS blinux directory that is the same size
as your bzimage, and it is bare.i.  I have been using that when I test 
sound.  I wonder how you ended up with a floppy disk set that loads bare.i 
instead of the basiclinux kernel.  It is about the same date as two
other files in there.  Perhaps the fd program is trying to loadlin
bzimage and not finding it on my floppy disk set?  

> PART1              399,936  09-21-03 10:37p PART1
>         10 file(s)      1,254,352 bytes
>          0 dir(s)         200,192 bytes free
> 
> The second floppy has:
> 
> PART2            1,237,762  09-21-03 10:37p PART2
> 
> For the first  time, I tried booting with that in my 2nd computer, the 
> 300MHz AMD K6-2 on a FIC VA-503+ (or some such) motherboard, 64Mb RAM, from 
> about 1999?
> 
> Seems to give a normal ramdisk BasicLinux.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Sheldon Isaac
> 
> 
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