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  • From: t.maiden AT att.net
  • To: baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [BL] BL 3.40 in qemu image
  • Date: Sat, 22 Apr 2006 19:49:45 +0000


I did the download and it works great in Win32 QEMU! Even the internet
connection worked perfect right off the bat. I didn't try Telnet but as
Links worked great I suspect Telnet and probably FTP (or other program) would
work as well. Great job making up this .img file. No problems configuring
QEMU or anything...

-------------- Original message from t.maiden AT att.net: --------------


> Sorry I didn't get to this sooner but I'm at home where I only have a slow
> dialup connection. Even a small 5 meg. download can take painfully long to
> get.
> On the QEMU front I finally figured out how to boot a live Linux CD to run
> in
> QEMU. I have found a few Live CDs that wouldn't run on my PC natively but
> will
> load and run in QEMU. Figure that out. If I ever get the courage I may try
> to
> load and run Windows 95 in QEMU and maybe even XP Home. What worries me is
> the
> Autoplay function in XP which may try to execute the Win. 95 CD native and
> mess
> up my hard drive (can't afford that). Maybe there is a way to turn off
> Autoplay, anyone know?
> -------------- Original message ----------------------
> From: Ken Martwick
> > James, I have downloaded your image and I hope to check it out soon;
> > I just haven't gotten to it.
> > Ken Martwick
> >
> > On Sat, Apr 22, 2006 at 06:10:46AM -0500, James Miller wrote:
> > > I haven't heard a thing from anyone yet on this qemu image, e.g.,
> > > whether
> > > it unarchives alright and then boots and runs under qemu. I was
> > > thinking
> > > t.maiden might be first to respond, since he showed some interest.
> > > Anyway, let me ask more directly with this post. David (Moberg), I
> > > recall
> > > you saying that you use qemu. Could I ask that you download and unpack
> > > the BL 3.40 qemu image I made and then try booting and running it a
> > > bit,
> > > then post back with your results? Thanks in advance for any help you
> > > might provide with that.
> > >
> > > James
> > >
> > > On Wed, 19 Apr 2006, James Miller wrote:
> > >
> > > > On Wed, 19 Apr 2006, t.maiden AT att.net wrote:
> > > >
> > > >> An image or ISO of BL 3.4 would be nice to try out.
> > > >
> > > > Go to http://cmiller.sdf-us.org/baslin/baslin3/BL3-4qemu.zip for a
> > > > ca. 5MB
> > > > zipped qemu disk image of BL 3.40. Unzipped it should expand to
> > > > 100MB.
> > > > Boots with GRUB into a virgin BL 3.40 install that has networking
> > > > already
> > > > enabled (if your host system is set up to handle it). I would much
> > > > appreciate feedback on whether it works. I created the zip archive on
> > > > a
> > > > Linux system, and the original image file booted fine here, but I
> > > > obviously can't say how well it works on other systems or especially
> > > > platforms, or whehter even the archive can be handled by other
> > > > archiving
> > > > programs. Reports, please.
> > > >
> > > > James
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