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I ran into another problem.  I decided to put the two floppy images on actual 
floppies.  Copying over the disk2.gz image was no problem, but neither of the 
recommended programs RAWRITE or FDIMAGE would recognise my floppy drive as a 
floppy drive.  I work on a laptop that didn't come with a floppy drive 
originally so I bought one that plugs in via a USB port.  For some reason 
FDIMAGE gets an error 20 when it goes to the floppy, RAWRITE can't determine 
the drive's recording density and bombs out.  I will try your idea though.  
Thanks.
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From: James Miller <jamtat AT mailsnare.net>
> On Sun, 23 Apr 2006, t.maiden AT att.net wrote:
> 
> > I decided to see if I could run the two-floppy version of BL in qemu.  I 
> > setup the BAT file to see the disk1.img as the -fda floppy image, the 
> > disk2 dataset as the -hda hard disk image.  I can't seem to get around 
> > the function that asks me to swap floppy disk one and floppy two.  I 
> > then took the -hda param off and tried exiting to the qemu monitor and 
> > using the change fda command but that didn't work either.  Is there a 
> > way to do this?
> 
> The easiest way to boot BL floppy in qemu will be to just use the real 
> floppy drive and not an image file set as -fda.  If qemu won't do this on 
> its own, then specify -fda /dev/fd0 when you start qemu.  The BL3 floppies 
> are hard-coded to look for the second diskette at /dev/fd0 (or is it just 
> /dev/fdx, Steven?).  A hybrid approach would be to do what you've done 
> specifying -fda DISK1.img, then putting DISK2.gz onto a floppy and 
> sticking that in your floppy drive.  Once BL is already partway booted, 
> it's going to go the the floppy drive itself.  In theory the two files 
> could be joined somehow--like the BL2 image was.  But I'm unsure how to do 
> that.
> 
> James
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