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[James Miller <jamtat AT mailsnare.net>]

On Sat, 22 Apr 2006, t.maiden AT att.net wrote:

> 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...

Thanks for your report, t.maiden.  It's great to hear it unarchives and 
runs under the Win version of qemu.  All networking stuff I tried here 
under a Linux host worked fine.  I think having a qemu image of BL will be 
a great way to get more exposure for BL.  Folks with more powerful 
machines and who have qemu can try it out and see how well it works.  And 
being as slim as it is, BL somewhat counteracts the performance hit the 
emulator makes on the emulated OS.  Some of the people who might toy with 
it under qemu may well have older hardware they'd like to press into 
service for friends or family members, and would try an install of BL on 
real hardware for that.  I'd actually like to make a torrent file of this 
image for sharing at OSZoo, but I have no experience whatever of making 
such files, and have barely even used torrents for downloading files. 
Any other list members know anything about doing this torrent stuff?

James