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

On Thu, 4 Aug 2005, David Moberg wrote:

> 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

and then to change to using BL3, chroot /mnt /bin/sh --login
(I think).  I got two things confused here.
Thanks for the correction.

> > 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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