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

Following David's later instructions (gunzip blppaz.gz, mount blppaz, 
mount initfs.gz and replace ppa.o with imm.o, edit the rc file to insmod 
imm.o, change kernel if desired) I have made a blimmz.gz floppy boot disk 
image posted at keesan.freeshell.org/bl, and also wrote it to floppy disk:

dd if=blimmz of=/dev/fd0

Instructions for use are at my site (blfiles.htm), which also includes 
some things I compiled.

I also made a 50MB fs.img of the BL3 files I had installed to ext2 hd 
partition and copied this to a 100MB zip disk.  This involved making an 
empty file with dd (see another posting on how to resize fs.img), mke2fs, 
answer yes, and copying the file system from /dev/hdb1 to it, again with 
dd and loop involved.  You could instead just copy the 20MB fs.img from 
the DOS partition if you got that version of BL3 (loop/DOS).

Our second parport zip drive turns out to be scsi (they use the same 
D-shell cables) so I will have to go to another address to test the boot 
disk on the real parport zip drive.  Some day I will get all the pieces in 
one place and be able to impress the neighbors.

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:
>
> 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.
> David
>
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