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["Owen Jones" <Owen AT cellarmation.f2s.com>]

so i would put : fs.img on the computer hd (fat32 dos format) in baslin
directory, and put loadlin and intifs.gz on a cd? root of the disk? same
disk? thanks!

owen
----- Original Message -----
From: <3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org>
To: <baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Friday, July 02, 2004 10:46 PM
Subject: Re: [BL] cd install


> NoImAFungi AT aol.com wrote:
> >
> > I don't know if this would work.
> > One might be able to put the fs.img on the hard drive of
> > the computer and then boot the loop file from cd.
>
> loadlin.exe is happy running from CDrom.  It will successfully
> load the kernel (from CDrom) and put initfs.gz (from CDrom)
> into a ramdisk.  So far, so good.  Then the initfs looks for
> fs.img on the HD.  There are three requirements:
> (1) the HD must be IDE
> (2) fs.img must be in the /baslin directory
> (3) fs.img must be on a DOS-type filesystem
>
> > If you have no current OS or way of putting stuff on the hd.
> > You could use a dos boot img
>
> Would such a DOS CDrom contain fdisk and format?  Would it
> be possible to use it to put a bootable DOS partition on the
> HD?  If so, you could first create the bootable OS (DOS) and
> then boot the normal DOS version of BL3.
>
> Cheers,
> Steven
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