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Owen Jones wrote:
>
> I want to use basiclinux but i dont have a floppy drive 
> (long story) could/how would i burn it to cd?

AFAIK there is no simple way for you to put BL3 on a CDrom.  
However, I could be wrong.  I know nothing about burning 
CDroms.  

The floppy version boots with LILO which loads the kernel
and uncompresses the initrd to ramdisk.  I think LILO looks
at specific locations on the floppy for the kernel/initrd,
so simply raw-copying the floppy to CDrom is unlikely to
work.

The DOS version boots from DOS and uses loadlin.exe to
load the kernel and uncompress a tiny initrd (which mounts 
fs.img as a loop device).  This looks specifically on the
HD for fs.img (so a CDrom will not work).

What you need is a version of BL3 that runs fs.img in a 
ramdisk (instead of a loop-file).  However, for that to
work, you would need a kernel (zimage) that is able to
accommodate 15mb ramdisks.  The current kernel does not
(its ramdisks must be 4mb or smaller).  Just for fun a
few months ago I compiled a BL3 kernel with 15mb ramdisks.
It happily ran fs.img in a ramdisk.  Unfortunately, I did
not keep a copy of that kernel.

This issue does not occur with BL1 and BL2.  They are both 
designed to boot from DOS and run in a ramdisk, so booting 
them from CDrom is not difficult. However, in its present
form BL3 is not suitable for CDrom booting.

Cheers,
Steven