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[Sindi Keesan <keesan AT iamjlamb.com>]

On Tue, 9 Mar 2004 3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org wrote:

> Sindi Keesan wrote:
> >
> > Might you rename it baslin3 to help keep track of which 
> > basiclinux is in the directory?
> 
> The C:\baslin directory is hard-wired into BL3.  Changing it
> would not be simple.

I was suggesting that you consider doing this, not that I learn to do it.  
On our various computers, Bl2 is in 'BL2' 'blinux' and 'baslinux' (two of 
us have different ideas where to put it) and there is also a BL1 directory 
on one computer.  It is going to be a bit difficult to remember where to 
find BL3 - in baslin, baslinux, blinux?  

> > > To mount a DOS floppy:
> > > ---------
> > > mount /fd
> > > ---------
> > 
> > Is this an alias 
> 
> No.  It is an entry in /etc/fstab.
> 
> > and will mount /dev/fd0 /fd also still work?
> 
> Yes, that should work, too.  However, without the -t parameter,
> it looks for an ext2 filesystem first and complains if it doesn't 
> find one.  So, if the floppy is DOS, the long form should be::
> ---------------------------
> mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /fd
> ---------------------------
> I think it is much simpler to do:  mount /fd


For my dyslexic partner, I made aliases such as

A - mounts the first floppy drive under /A.

Most of my computers have two floppy drives.  I like 360K disks.
They almost never go bad.

> > Is it Tuesday there already?
> 
> Yes, Tuesday afternoon.

Here in EST land (Eastern US) I got BL3 a day ahead of your schedule, on 
Monday late evening.  The rest of the US would have got it up to 3 hours 
earlier, which is probably why James managed a more thorough test.


> 
> Cheers,
> Steven
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