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

sindi keesan wrote:

> 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

It should be

mount /dev/hda3 /mnt

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

This last line should be:

mkdir /bl
mount -o loop /mnt/baslin/fs.img /bl

You will probably need to be root. Also, the other
distribution might be picky about capitalization.

> 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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