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  • From: sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>
  • To: baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [BL] Booting from a ppa zip drive
  • Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2005 16:05:56 +0000 (UTC)

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




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