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  • From: sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>
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  • Subject: Re: [BL] Booting from a ppa zip drive
  • Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2005 16:51:13 +0000 (UTC)

On Sat, 12 Mar 2005, David Moberg wrote:

----- 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?

Did not try that. The file size was always correct but md5sum appeared to be different every time I copied with llpro.


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?

I have not yet learned to resize a loop.

How do I copy files to fs.img, with dd?

dd if=/dev/hdb1 of=fs.img (all from ramdisk linux)?

Then to copy fs.img to zip drive:
mount /dev/sda4 /zip
cp fs.img /zip ?

Is your boot disk designed to work only with fs.img?
Could one be put together that would mount /zip on / with a file system like the one on hard drive instead? But I guess you can always modify the fs.img while it is running if you want to make changes.

Could I try out your boot disk with a scsi zip drive? I think the only difference is the two parport modules (which won't hurt anything) and ppa. Would it mount fs.img even if ppa did not detect the expected drive?

I am going to first have to learn to make an ext2 filesystem on the zip disk with iw from iomega. Can I partition a disk to be half linux and half DOS? I only have one disk here and want to be able to use it in DOS.

I really ought to finish taxes before playing with these toys.

David
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