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

On Wed, 3 Aug 2005 RandumAri AT netscape.net wrote:

> I got such great help on my last question, so I'll ask another:
> I'm trying to find the best way to transfer files to my BL3-box.  Here are my 
> ideas-
> 1) Floppy disks (a suprising 80% of my floppies seem to be corrupt)
> 2) CD-Rom (when mounting I get a driver not found error)
> 3) Use the other version of Linux I have to access the CD-Rom (however, 
> neither Linux distribution can mount the other)

Why can't you mount BL3 from the other distribution?
Is it installed to hard drive, or are you using the loop version?

If the former, let's assume it is on /dev/hda3 (third partition of 
primary master or single drive).
mount /dev/hda3 /bin/sh --login

If the latter, you need to
insmod loop
mount /dev/hda3 /mnt
mount -o loop /mnt/baslin/fs.img /bin/sh --login

Steven, please correct the above if it is wrong.  I am assuming that the 
loop version of BL3 is in the third partition, in directory /baslin, and 
that you have a directory /mnt in the other linux distribution.

This is the BL3 'loop' version (the one you download to DOS partition and 
unzip).

> 4) Download directly onto the computer

I have done file transfers in other ways:
5)  Serial cable (nullmodem) with DOS laplink pro (you can use it from two 
DOS boot floppy disks) or parallel transfer cable, ditto.
6)  BL3 (see netsetup) can do file transfers via SLIP (serial) or PLIP 
(parallel) transfer cable, which is faster.
7)  ethernet cable (linux only), the fastest, using BL3 at both ends.
8)  parallel port zip drive  (which I will probably use to put BL onto a 
laptop without CD-ROM drive or ethernet card).  Requires several linux 
modules, or can be done using DOS.

If transferring with DOS, you will need a DOS partition (use DOS to format 
it) and then transfer the files from DOS to linux using linux.

Using DOS to transfer the files may truncate long file names, but the 
Slackware packages in versions up to 7.1 are all short names.


> I'd rather not resort to 1 & 4...
> In order to get the second idea, I need a driver, which I don't know where to 
> find or what it would be called (I tried slackware...)
> In order to get the third idea, I made an extra partition, but I need to 
> format it for msdos/vfat (BL3 can mount those I think).  I can't find mkdosfs 
> for BL3 though.
>
> What do y'all think?
> Thanks,
> Lazarith
>
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