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[James Miller <jamtat AT mailsnare.net>]

On Wed, 26 Apr 2006, 3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org wrote:

> t.maiden wrote:
>
> > the DOS Loopback .img file is the same as the two floppy .img files.
> > I thought to use that I would have to load and run a DOS (MSDOS or
> > FreeDOS) before that would work.  Any ideas?
>
> The *only* function of DOS in the DOS version is to
> boot the kernel (using loadlin.exe).  There are several
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I don't think this is going to work for him since he's trying to do this 
under qemu and is probably not wanting to install DOS.  But the real issue 
is what t.maiden is trying to do: could you clarify, t.maiden?  Are you 
trying to make a smaller qemu image, since my 100MB image is bigger than 
you think it should be?  If so, how about this suggestion: when you're not 
actively running the BL3 image, you re-archive it using Winzip or some 
such.  So it only takes up 5-10MB when not running.  When you want to run 
it, unarchive it again.  Does that approach address the issues?

James

PS qemu has a -kernel option and I thought this might be useable to 
specify the kernel to boot the FS.IMG file with.  But my attempts at doing 
that failed.  The man page specifies a bzImage using this -kernel switch: 
does it maybe only work on compressed kernels?  Any insights on this, 
David?