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> James Miller wrote:
> >
> > The BL3 floppies are hard-coded to look for the second diskette 
> > at /dev/fd0 (or is it just /dev/fdx, Steven?).  
> 
> /dev/fd0  -- but it could be changed by editing /etc/rc
> 
> > In theory the two files could be joined somehow
> 
> Why bother?  The fs.img (in DOS version) holds the entire
> filesystem.  In order to fit it on floppies, it had to be
> split in two pieces.  Otherwise it's the same (except that
> the DOS version has loadlin and the floppy version has lilo).
> 
> Cheers,
> Steven
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But wouldn't using the DOS version require the loading and running of a DOS 
such as MSDOS or FreeDOS before you can load BL?  When you run things in QEMU 
there is no software preinstalled before your input file.  I would have to 
find a way to put BL in with the DOS image so that once the DOS loads and 
runs BL could then be started.  Thanks.