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Please don't think I am unhappy with your efforts at making that BL 3.4 
image.  Its great and the next thing I may try is installing some of the 
optional packages into that extra 100 meg of disk space.  Is there a package 
for Firefox and/or Opera?  I just like to experiment and try different things 
with QEMU.  I only just managed to figure out how to run a Live Linux CD from 
my CD/ROM drive in QEMU.  It still has to be a minimalist implementation to 
work well.  I tried the Mandrake Move CD and it hung!  Too big.  Anything 
using KDE or Gnome is not a good candidate for running in QEMU.  As for the 
-Kernel param I have seen that specified when booting KNOPPIX type images 
where I believe the kernel isn't in the main image (usually named KNOPPIX in 
a subfolder named KNOPPIX).  I suspect there is something different about 
KNOPPIX type implementations.

-------------- Original message from 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 
> 
> 
> 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? 
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