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Doesn't the two floppy version of BL unzip into 2 images that you then put on 
the two floppies (thus the name "two floppy version")?  Or is the problem the 
need to install the 3.4 version of BL or is the problem the amount of memory 
(3 meg vs. the 12 meg) needed?  Thanks...

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> sindi wrote: 
> 
> > I have run BL3 on such a laptop with 3MB or 5MB RAM (very slowly, no 
> > graphics), but not from floppy disk. 
> 
> It's not exactly true :) I ran qemu 0.7.2 with RAM of emulated computer 
> set to 3MB. 
> 
> Harddisk version. Unzipped bl3-40.zip to c:\baslin. 
> Unzipped swap.zip (6MB swap file) in c:\baslin 
> 
> boot.bat 
> 
> Before `startx`, `free` reports: 
> 
> total used free shared buffers 
> Mem: 1684 1540 144 392 376 
> Swap: 6717 12 6704 
> Total: 8400 1552 6848 
> 
> 
> After `startx` and running xterm from menu, `free` reports: 
> 
> total used free shared buffers 
> Mem: 1684 1544 140 208 344 
> Swap: 6717 1024 5692 
> Total: 8400 2568 5832 
> 
> and X runs on 3MB systems with some swap. 
> Well, on 3MB systems it runs very slooooooooow. 
> Really very slow. I tested also 4MB RAM and it runs much faster. 
> 
> For sure, Jose can run harddisk version of BL 3.x on his laptop. 
> But definitely not floppy version as he has only 5MB RAM and 
> floppy disk version requires 12MB ram (ramdisk is created during startup). 
> 
> 
> Chris 
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