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[Sindi Keesan <keesan AT iamjlamb.com>]

I used llpro to copy all my DOS files from my main computer to another 
computer (and from there to three others) including BL3 and BL2.

Zimage of BL2 got corrupted somehow on one of those three computers (both
copies of zimage on this same computer were corrupted, oddly enough)  but
a recopy worked.  It was complaining that zimage was not a real kernel.
This was also the only one of these four computers that would not work 
with plip - just kept timing out.  (It could be my Hercules card parallel 
port, and I will try another.  The Hercules card worked with llpro but 
perhaps it is not working very well with it, considering the corruption of 
zimage 2 times out of 3).  

So I tried booting BL3 on both the sending and the receiving computer and 
discovered BL3 won't boot on either of them.  (Probably because it was bad 
on the first one and got copied from that to the second).  Or is there 
something wrong with these computers?  The problem is that half-way 
through boot I get to the line:

IP Protocols:  ICMP, UDP, TCP   

and it gets stuck there.  

Most likely llpro does not do a good job copying image files, either
zimage or fs.img, and I will have to copy fs.img it over again four times
and this time check each copy.  Maybe once I get plip working on this last 
computer I can use that to copy fs.img, instead of llpro.

Is there some file other than fs.image that I should recopy?  This is a 
real pain having to set up file transfer four times again so I want to get 
it all right the first time.  

The file sizes on the good and bad zimage were the same.  Can md5sum be
used to compare fs.img's and zimage's?  None of the temp.tgz files I
copied with plip seem to be corrupted (the sums were the same).

Any other ideas on what is going wrong with the copying of BL2 (which 
worked 3 times out of 4) and BL3 (which probably went wrong on the first 
copy)?

Anyway, I now have three more working copies of BL2 hard disk and four of 
BL2 ramdisk, via tar and plip.  We left the hard drives in their 
respective computers and it only took about 50 minutes to transfer a 147MB 
temp.tgz file (which came from about 250M of files).