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Re: [BL] Rescue Disk needed

From: 3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org
To: baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: Re: [BL] Rescue Disk needed
Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2004 20:56:50 -0000

Sindi Keesan wrote:
>
> What I meant is that you do not need to have a
> DOS partition that way.

If you wanted to avoid having a DOS partition,
I would recommend lilo. That's what the floppy
version of BL3 installs by default.

> What is the smallest DOS partition that can be
> used to boot BL from? Can you make it the same
> size as zimage plus loadlin, say 500K?

msdos.sys + io.sys + command.com + autoexec.bat
+ zimage + loadlin.exe

I wouldn't go any smaller than 1mb.

Cheers,
Steven

[BL] Rescue Disk needed, Denton He, 07/12/2004
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        Re: [BL] BL3 kernel panic with FAT32 d:\baslin, 3aoo-cvfd, 07/12/2004
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        Re: [BL] BL3 kernel panic with FAT32 d:\baslin, 3aoo-cvfd, 07/13/2004
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