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

> I suppose I could try the BL1 kernel but it may not support parport zip 
> drives.

I substituted the bare.i kernel from SW4.0 and  of course it did not work 
because the modules were wrong, not only that, it completely messed up the 
floppy disk.  Scandisk found hundreds of things wrong after e2fsck fixed 
things and I just deleted a bunch of .chk files but I also seem to have 
damaged a large area in the middle of the disk - how did this happen?

Since the floppy drive I am scandisking on is the worn-out one in the 486 
laptop this may be an artifact.  How does one format for DOS in linux?

I did a Ctrl-Alt-Del when the boot process crashed - would this have 
damaged the disk?

I just downloaded the blimmz.gz file and gunzipped and wrote to disk and 
replaced the pentium kernel with my 486 kernel again, on a known good 
floppy disk.