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  • From: t.maiden AT att.net
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  • Subject: Re: [BL] BL 3.40 in qemu image
  • Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2006 03:29:05 +0000


> > > > zipped qemu disk image of BL 3.40. Unzipped it should expand to 100MB.

Silly question. Why is the unzipped .img so large? 100 meg is a little big
for the otherwise petite BL...

-------------- Original message ----------------------
From: t.maiden AT att.net
>
> 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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