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

> I do believe that some of the other folks on the list are working on
> getting BL to run from USB thumb drives - see the last month's
> archives.

We have DOS USB mass storage working (two files in config.sys) with two 
USB cameras (CF and XD) and one card reader.  We have a 64MB CF card and a 
16MB XD card, which I think we could partition to make a baslin directory. 
How would we go about making a DOS boot floppy for BL3-on-camera to 
impress our friends with (and also maybe to even edit images within the 
camera using netpbm)?

David Moberg made a linux boot floppy disk for parport zip drive linux (BL 
3.32 kernel 2.2.16), with an initrd.gz which I think contains the imm.o or 
ppa.o for the drive (I forget if it uses syslinux or lilo or loadlin), and 
also a 1-floppy syslinux 2.4.31 kernel uclibc-static USB storage boot disk 
with semi-static zgv.

We could try putting BL3 into a 20MB CF partition (ext2) and chrooting to 
it from the linux USB boot floppy disk.  I don't think any of our computer 
boot from USB drives - do the newer ones?

Can partition managers shrink XP partitions to make space for ext2?

Sindi