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Stephen Clement wrote:
>
> >>>Do you mean the floppy version of BL3?  The floppy
> >>>version uses ramdisks.  The DOS version uses loop.
> >>
> >>Yes, that's why I said it was the ramdisk one.
> >
> >Very interesting! I did not know there is a ramdisk version
> >of BL3. I never considered to download and install it,
> >because all the time it was called "floppy version".
> 
> Well its not exactly all that "installable", except you 
> can install it to the hard drive. 

That's right.  The DOS version runs from a loop; the 
floppy version runs from ramdisks.  Both install to HD 
(ext2 partition).

> But I'm pretty sure then it wouldn't be a ramdisk version, 

To get a ramdisk version, you would need to extract the
initrd from the floppy (not easy).  Or, alternatively,
you could gzip fs.img (from DOS version) and use that 
as the initrd (however, you would then need a special 
kernel capable of running a 20mb ramdisk).

Cheers,
Steven

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