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

----- Original Message -----
From: "sindi keesan" <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>

> > How are you booting this?
> 
> > From e:\baslin on my DOS partition, using the same boot.bat as came with
> the download of BL3-loop.  But fs.img is copied from ext2 linux 
> partition with that one change to fstab (mount /dev/loop0 on / not 
> /dev/hdb1 on /)
> Perhaps I need to change something else too?

I think you can just ignore the error because:
> >> It boots anyway.

> Would grub fit on the 2-floppy bl3 instead of lilo?

Yes. Do you want instructions for making this change?
 
> I made fs.img and copied the filesystem from /dev/hdb1 to it, which 
> of course had an fstab which mounted /dev/hdb1.  But fs.img was 
> copied to e:\baslin, from where I need to mount /dev/loop0 to /.  
> If I had simply enlarged the 20 MB fs.img in e:\baslin (by copying 
> files from it to a new 50 MB fs.img) this would not have been 
> necessary but I instead copied files from my linux partition to a 
> 50MB fs.img, and fstab had to be changed.  Steven's installation 
> program appears to edit fstab for you.

Yes, it does. I understand now why the edit was necessary.

> I will know more about the zip drive tomorrow.  Or maybe it will 
> work in DOS somehow.

Your next message said it works with imm.

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> Many stations offer a choice of realaudio or windows media player, 
> fewer offer streaming mp3.  There is now something called smil 
> format.  ???

The last time I even thought about using SMIL was almost a decade
ago. It's somewhat like M3U, only more complex and with support for
RealAudio/RealPlayer files.

David
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