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[James Miller <jamtat AT mailsnare.net>]

On Sat, 15 Apr 2006, t.maiden AT att.net wrote:

> But I already had a internet connection established on the "host" side. 
> I guess the boot routines for BL 2.1 don't have the coding to go looking 
> for the open connection already there.  The Knoppix remasters I have 
> been playing with (DSL and Feather) do ID the open tcp/ip connection and 
> hook in.

That's helpful to know.  So the tap/tun thing works under Win, too. 
Sounds like qemu for Win is set up to automatically create the virtual 
network.  In that case, once you've booted the BL2 iso do the following:
1) cd to /sbin and issue ln -s /bin/busybox/ifconfig
2) insmod 8390
3) insmod ne
4) issue dhcp
That should get you online.  Works for me with a Linux host system, 
anyway.  But about all you can do is surf with links and such.  Can't add 
any packages, since BL2 ramdisk is not set up for package installation.

James