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

On Mon, 20 Dec 2004 3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org wrote:

> sindi keesan wrote:
> > Can the Bl3-ramdisk version be modified using a loop?
>
> No, the ramdisk version is completely different from
> the loop version.
>
> > the only way I came up with was to change the boot
> > procedure to be like Bl2 ramdisk
>
> Unfortunately booting with DOS+loadlin wastes a lot
> of space compared to booting with lilo.

How large is lilo compared to
DOS system files + autoexec.bat + config.sys +continue.bat + loadlin?

I still got the whole root disk into 720K with about 450K kernel. Another 
advantage is I can take my 2-disk set and install it directly to a DOS 
partition to boot into RAMdisk there, just copy over loadlin, zimage, and 
bl3.gz to a directory in DOS.  But this would not work if I had not 
removed a lot of BL3 (X and some modules) to fit the file system onto just 
one floppy disk, otherwise I would have had to reconstitute the .gz from 
two parts as in BL2.  And I don't know if it would even have fit onto two 
floppy disks without the deletions.  It is certainly not as good for 
impressing friends with, without the graphics.  I still might use it next 
weekend for accessing mail via telnet on Windows computers (with external 
modem).

> Cheers,
> Steven
>
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