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

Will 2-FD BL3 access an XP hard drive?
If not, is there a small kernel I can use that will fit into the 2-FD 
system (assuming I can figure out how to change it and there is space)?
Or will DamnSmallLinux work?

A friend is hoping to at least get the files off his hard drive in a 
computer which stopped booting and has Windows on it.  Best Buy repair 
people gave up on it.   We don't have an XP boot disk - should we try to 
get one from a friend or don't they use boot disks any more.

BL2 2-FD did a perfect job of repartitioning and formatting the XP 10.2G 
drive in a 'new' computer to Linux Ext2, and after I copied the right 
ethernet module to the second disk and insmodded it from there (insmod 
./3c59x) , I was able to transfer files over the ethernet cable using 
simply send/receive (without tar or gzip, they actually take longer). 
Until now we have been using PQMagic and first putting in a DOS drive with 
BL on it to do the file transfer.

keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org
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