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  • From: t.maiden AT att.net
  • To: baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [BL] BL loopback version in Windows XP command window
  • Date: Thu, 09 Feb 2006 19:19:24 +0000

Unfortunately these computers (and XP computers in general I believe) won't
boot from a floppy even if a floppy drive is built-in. Booting from the CD
drive (or maybe from a flash drive) is all you have short of going to (from)
the hard drive.

-------------- Original message from "Anthony Albert"
<albert AT umpi.maine.edu>: --------------


> On 8 Feb 2006 at 19:52, t.maiden AT att.net wrote:
> >-------------- Original message from t.maiden AT att.net: --------------
> >
> >
> >> Someone may have asked this already, but has anyone ever tried to run
> >> the
> >> loopback version of BL on a Windows XP PC from either the cmd or the
> >> command
> >> window? Where DOS-like commands can be entered? Is it worth trying? Do
> >> you
> >> think it would run from a flash drive? Am I goofy to even wonder about
> >> this?
> >> Thanks.
>
> >Sorry to be replying to my own e-mail, but no, it didn't work. From
> >either "command" or "cmd" I got the strange message that there was not
> >enough free memory! I know the available RAM memory on these school
> >PCs is huge compared to the available memory on my old Compaq Windows
> >95 box that runs BL3 floppy version like a champ...
>
> I think that running BL (or any Linux, for that matter) from the
> command line in XP is going to be problematic. The issue, I believe is
> how WinNT/2000/XP handle memory and allocate it to programs - I don't
> think they'll let BL start up its memory management and load the
> kernel, with all the low-level access it needs. This is likely the
> cause of the "not enough free memory" issue.
>
> If you were to boot that same computer into DOS, with a floppy disk,
> and then try BL, or boot from the BL floppies, I'm sure it would work
> like a champ! I might suggest adding a second, small hard drive that
> you can install BL on, and to which you can boot from floppy.
>
> 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.
>
> Anthony Albert
> ===========================================================
> Anthony J. Albert albert AT umpi.maine.edu
> Systems and Software Support Specialist Postmaster
> Computer Services - University of Maine, Presque Isle
> "This is only temporary, unless it works."
> --- Red Green
>
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