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

> Apparently you cannot treat a memory card like a hard disk or floppy disk.
> The manual for the camera says you can 'format' the memory card, but that
> is incorrect, what you are doing is simply making directories in the DOS
> partition.  So I can not set up an ext2 linux.  I should be able, however,
> to put an image file of some linux into the existing DOS partition, maybe
> in a /linux directory.
>
> The 1-floppy USB linux disk made by David includes loop.o so I was able to
> boot with it, insmod loop, mount /dev/hda1 /hd, cd /hd/baslin, mount -o
> loop fs.img /mnt, chroot /mnt /bin/sh and run BL3.40.
>
> I don't know if I can insmod ppp_generic and ppp_async that David compiled
> for use with a larger 2.4.31 kernel.

See http://keesan.freeshell.org/bl/usbcam.gz

Instructions for use at /bl/blfiles.htm

This is an image file which you can mount and chroot to after booting with 
2.4.31 (or anything else if you don't need to use modules), designed for 
use with David's 1-floppy USB camera linux (usb-linux-tar.gz package). 
Copy it (unzipped) to some place on your memory card in the camera or card 
reader, or to a USB memory stick if you have your photos on one.

I have tested it only by chrooting to the file on hard drive, not yet on a 
camera (which is not where I am now), but zgv (libc5) does work.  I did 
not test dialing with it and forgot to remove the old pppd when I added 
David's new one for 2.4.31. I included parport modules but not lp or plip, 
in this preliminary version.

Just about 5MB of files in a 10MB image file in case you want to add other 
programs (such as adding back X, which I removed).

Let me know if it works for you before I add lp and remove old pppd.
I included the netpbm modules for printing so in theory you could print 
your photos out direct from the camera after a floppy boot (in color on an 
HP deskjet but I think I also forgot to add that program to BL3 netpbm 
package).

Sindi