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

On Sun, 16 Jan 2005, Alejandro Lieber wrote:

> I transferred my 10Mby BL3 loop to hda2 in a 8Mbytes 486DLC.
> MidNight Commander and Mutt are included. No X.
>
>
> These are the results:
>
>                             Loop            hda2
>
> Loading time              22 secs          17 secs
> Free (used)               6052 Kbytes      3596 Kbytes
>      (free)                980 Kbytes      3436 Kbytes
>
> It seems that working in loop, nearly 2500 Kbytes more memory is
> required.

I cannot duplicate your results.  I get the following for FREE using 
mem=3M in my loadlin line (or similarly for 8M):

        TOTAL   USED    FREE    SHARED  BUFFERS
loop    1716    1468    248     480     360

hd      1716    1516    200     484     144
I had several modules automatically loaded (ppp, slh, parport, 
parport_pc).


On the other computer
        1716    1592    124     484     104

Why is this computer using more RAM?  Because I have automatically 
insmoded ppp, slhc, rtl8139, and the three CDROM modules.
The first computer has ppp slhc parport and parport_pc automaticallyloaded 
and would use less RAM without them loaded.

3M RAM no modules loaded on other computer
loop    1716    1516    140     484     348
hd      1716    1508    208     484     128

Difference is 208 versus 140K free (68K) or 8K less used.
Steven, please explain again how to interpret buffers.  Why is the loop 
version using more buffers and is this RAM actually available for use?  If 
so, it is only an 8K difference in available RAM between loop and hd 
versions without modules loaded.  With modules loaded the difference is as 
much as 48K - does the loop version load modules differently?


While trying to check this on the other computer I was unable to do a 
Ctrl-Alt-Del in BL3 hd. I could type reboot to reboot.  I notice there is 
no /sbin/shutdown.  Is typing reboot okay or does it mess things up?

I then tried to figure out how to mount the fs.img from BL2 hd in order to 
copy the files to ext2 since on two computers the loop BL3 has a kernel 
panic and won't boot.

I read linuxrc in /initrd of BL3 loop and then
mkdir /DOS
insmod loop
mount -t msdos /dev/hda3 /DOS
losetup /dev/loop0 /DOS/baslin/fs.img

Command not found.

I do not have losetup - but am I on the right track?  Will the above put 
the file system from fs.img onto /dev/loop0 whence I could try to copy it 
directly to /dev/hdb1?  Or can I copy the BL3 filesystem from fs.img 
without using loop, while in BL2?

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I am pleased to report that the ssh.gz posted by Steven (I think it is 
compiled statically for all BLs) works for accessing both sdf and my local 
bbs (which latter cannot be accessed with microcom).  Very simple:
ssh keesan AT grex.org
Answer yes to the question about adding this to the list.
(Next time no question.)
Give password.

Make a 1-letter alias if you don't like typing the line with @.
Is there some way to include the password in the alias?

Kermit also comes with an ssh and if you ssh somewhere with kermit you can 
do kermit file transfer after that.  Kermit file transfer also works over 
a kermit telnet connection.  This saves having to open another connection 
(FTP, or ftpput, or wget if you first move your file to the html 
directory) to do a file transfer.

Kermit file transfer does NOT work over the non-kermit telnet or ssh for 
BL.