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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

I did install-to-hd from e:\baslin and looked for the promised hd.bat and 
finally found it in c:\baslin (which directory I should probably have 
deleted after I realized that I cannot boot from it with loadlin because I 
need to use loadlin after booting from Win9x DOS floppy disk, which cannot 
find files on the c: drive).  If c:\baslin did not exist, I presume the 
routine would have put hd.bat into my d:\baslin (older BL3).  Is there 
some way it can detect the current directory and put it there?


Please add to the routine instructions on how to edit mtab in the new BL3 
hard drive so that you don't get "No more tasks for init - sleeping 
forever".  This is enough to make a beginner give up.

I looked at it with BL3 loop and found that /dev/hdb1 was mounted on /hd 
(I did this to look at it) and also
/dev/root / ext2 rw 0 0

Do I change / to /dev/hdb1?  If so, can you put this in the instructions?
Change
        /dev/root /
to
        /dev/root /dev/hdb1 (if hdb1 is the ext2 partition).

This HD version of BL3 has the same booting problems as the loop version 
(cannot recognize the kernel image file).  BL2 HD boots fine with loadlin 
from DR-DOS.  BL2 Ramdisk version did not (the one time I tried it).



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