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>>> 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. 

This hybrid approach didn't work, sorry. 
 -------------- Original message ----------------------
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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