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

On Fri, 11 Mar 2005, David Moberg wrote:

> I've posted an experimental bootdisk for booting from a
> parallel port ZIP drive on my website. Please try it and
> let me know how it works. Once again, the URL is:

I will try it as soon as the promised parport zip drive is mailed to me. I 
read the instructions.  Have you actually tried copying fs.img to a zip 
disk?  I have had lots of trouble copying that image - cannot copy it with 
DOS llpro (zipped or unzipped) or even between drives (at least with DOS 
copy) in the same computer, or via plip between computers.  The md5sum 
changes. So far it can be copied in zip form (split in two) on two floppy 
disks, or via linux ethernet, or over a modem connection.  I have not 
tried copying between computers over a serial connection (send/receive).
Or between drives with linux cp, which I hope will work.

Is there some way to put the BL3 hard drive version onto zip disk?  I want 
to show friends that linux has a wordprocessor and can even work with 
Opera and Firefox (with upgraded glibc).  And maybe games.

> http://geocities.com/davidjmoberg
>
> You can read some documentation I wrote about it at my
> website as well. Let me know if I made any bad
> assumptions about how the drives work.

Thanks to you.
> Thanks.
> David