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Otto Werner wrote:
>
> i had a new try with bl3-21.zip and after all no succes.
> Notebook with 486SX, 8MB Ram, 780MB harddrive and only 
> with floppy. 
> I downloaded to my main linuxbox, unzipped with ark, 
> split FS.IMG to 11 floppys, 

That is *very* complicated.  

> got all to c:\baslin(dos 6.22), and restored fs.img.

Are you sure fs.img was exactly the same as before?
Did you do a md5sum?

> When booting i get kernel panic :VFS :unable to mount root 
> ext2fs error (device loop(7,0)):ext2 check descriptors corrupted

It appears fs.img is corrupt.

> Any suggestions ?

Use the floppy version.  Create the floppies on your main 
box (it needs just two floppies).  Run them on your laptop.  
Use install-to-hd to put it permanently on your laptop.

Cheers,
Steven

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