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

On Wed, 22 Sep 2004, sindi keesan wrote:

> 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.

The above paragraph is irrelevant.  I would not have had problems if I had 
a usable c:\baslin directory on this computer but I need to boot with a 
floppy disk that then cannot find c:\baslin (or c: anything).

(Hal has one computer with the same problem - loadlin won't work unless 
you reboot with Win9x DOS instead of DR-DOS or MS-DOS).

Since I could not access the C: drive which is where install-to-hd put 
hd.bat (c:\baslin) I simply copied over the boothd.bat file for BL2 and 
changed the partition (from hdb2 for BL2 to hdb1 for BL3).  BL2 for some 
reason uses ro in its boot file.  BL3 uses rw.  Why?  Does some routine 
during boot act differently in the two versions?

With rw substituted for ro BL3 boots to hard drive and I copied over 
kermit and telnetted here with kermit (because I use kermit for file 
transfer at sdf, since ftp is not available at present).


The modem is working okay now in BL3.  56K external modem with port speed 
set down from 115200 to 57600.  BL2 can handle the higher speed.  Maybe 
the older pppd could not?  I managed to access several websites with 
links-0.90 and change options without losing the connection, for once.

I am ready for Abiword and will try sound, which I just downloaded.
Thanks to everyone.


keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org
SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.lonestar.org