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[James Miller <jamtat AT mailsnare.net>]

On Fri, 19 Mar 2004, James Miller wrote:

> Just out of curiosity:  I'm presuming the following would work.
> 1) boot to BL2 ramdisk version
> 2) create a 15MB partition on the HD at, say, /dev/hda2
> 3) create ext2 filesystem on /dev/hda2

> 4) mount the DOS drive where BL3 resides at, say, /DOS
> 5) cd to /DOS/baslin and do dd if=fs.img of=/dev/hda2
>
> It gets BL3 on an ext2 HD partition, correct?  Comments?

Correction made.  Step 4 - mounting the newly-created partition is not
required.  The final step - writing the image to a partition - requires a
"raw" device, so having the partition mounted and then trying to write to
/mnt/hda2 is not going to work.  The above revised rendition is the one
that seems like it should work (i.e., it should put BL3 on an ext2
partition on the HD).

Btw, I think we should bring BL3 to the attention of the Freedos people.
After all, with the right BIOS, Freedos can use 100+ GB hard drives (seems
that any limitation to partition size under Freedos comes only from the
computer's BIOS).  People with that much space on a DOS drive could afford
to do alot of playing with a Linux like BL3.  I suppose first we should
see how BL3 works on a Freedos installation, though.  Anyone onlist using
Freedos?

James