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["David Moberg" <davidjmoberg AT lycos.com>]

----- Original Message -----
From: "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?

No.

> 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.

That is very strange. Maybe DOS copy can't deal with binary files from
a different platform? If you copy it back does it retain the new md5sum?

> 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.

This is the loop version, so you can resize it and install as many
applications as will fit. Maybe you can make your own FS.IMG by mounting
the hard drive partition and copying everything over to a new FS.IMG?

David
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