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

> > The kernel which David used in the boot floppy for parport zip
> > drive was for pentium only.  David, was this BL3 or BL2 kernel?
> > BL2 kernel already supports imm.o, don't know if BL3 zimage.p1 also
> > does.
>
> BL3. I still don't know why it wouldn't boot on your 486.

BL3 zimage.p1 and zimage.4dx both support the parport drive, when used 
with a pentium.  Neither work on a 486, the first because a 486 won't boot 
with a pentium kernel, the second probably because of some bug in the 
kernel.

The odd thing is that the two 486 kernels, which both worked on the 486 
from hard drive and let me mount the parport zip drive, and on the pentium 
boot from grub boot floppy disk directly to parport zip drive, would not 
floppy boot on the 486 to parport zip drive.

With luck I won't run into anyone with a 486 that want me to demo linux 
from a zip disk.

I have posted the pentium version of the blimmz.gz floppy disk image for 
use with parport zip drive.  (zimage.p1).  You can substitute your own 386
or 486 kernel by mounting the floppy and cd /boot and replacing zimage, if 
you want to experiment.

Sindi