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

I have uploaded an 8MB BL3.32-based linux image file to be chrooted to 
after booting with Steven's 1-floppy USB linux.

http://keesan.freeshell.org/bl/usbcam/usbcam8.gz

and /issue which work for dialing and with zgv.  Report any problems.

I included busybox-1.1.0-static as an alternate, and imm.o and ppa.o to be 
used with parport.o for mounting parport zip drives, which can provide 
extra space to edit and store photos.  I could not find a way to mount 
the /dev/sda (card) from within this linux which is on the card.  I would 
probably have to add the usb modules and insmod them after chrooting.

The full (SW71 or maybe it is 81) mount often has problems umounting the 
memory card.  Sometimes it fails, sometimes it works but says Couldn't 
umount /mnt.  Inappropriate ioctl for device.

I cannot kill loop.  Once I have done a mount -o loop five times I cannot 
mount anything else loop.  kill -9 number does not work.  When I reboot it 
gives me error messages about not being able to umount and then e2fsck 
checks the partition when I boot again to linux.

Sometimes umount works perfectly.  I can't figure it out.

Has anyone on the list set up a SCSI-only (no IDE) DOS/linux computer?
We have one with dead IDE controller onboard.  A friend gave me a scsi 
card with instructions to boot from an ID 6 device but the scsi utility 
lets you choose which ID to boot from.  It won't boot as 0.  Linux is 
tolerant of double-termination.
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keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org
SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.lonestar.org