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

On Mon, 5 Sep 2005, Can Le wrote:

> Steven,
>
> > > 6. Do we have a check list to check how many files do we need
> > > to be able to run BL3 in C:\baslin ?
>
> Steven wrote:
> > All you need is the files in the BL3 zip file (plus DOS).

> About a week ago, I was be able to get DOS C:\ from F8 on my desktop. 
> Today, I couldn't get into DOS C: from F8, All I got was a line with 
> radio signals and computer freezed!  So I did shutdown then started with 
> F2 to enable USB drive to try USB for another drive H:, I got the same 
> error!  Shoul I re-install Windows with 3 backup CDs to get DOS from F8, 
> because I can't get to work from MSDOS C:\baslin?

Windows XP does not have real DOS, just an imitation of it, which will not 
work with the version of BL3 that resides on a DOS partition.  I can't 
help you with XP, sorry.  Fixing XP still won't make it work with BL3.
If you boot with two floppy disks containing the second (2-floppy disk) 
version of BL3, it bypasses XP and boots directly into linux, using lilo. 
(The first version uses loadlin and needs to boot from 'real' DOS).

Is it possible to resize an XP partition (like you can do with Partition 
Magic or Partition Resizer in DOS) to make some free space for a linux 
partition?

> I unzipped BL3 then I counted a total of 7 files as listed. If you 
> remember how many files did you have from 1 original BL3 zip file, in 
> case we have had bug which ate out a few files?

> Please help!
>
> Thank  Steven.
>
> Can
>
>
> > The DOS version of BL3 does not work on Windows XP.
> > It requires DOS. You should use the floppy version.
>
> > > Do I need make.pl and perl or bash and other files in baslin directory?
>
> No.
>
> > > Please show me how to fix the above memory error and boot
> > > BL3 to run perl
>
> > To use perl, you will need to add the perl package from
> > Slackware 4.0.
>
> > Cheers,
> > Steven
>
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