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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

On Wed, 26 Apr 2006 t.maiden AT att.net wrote:

> When trying to boot the two floppy version of BL in QEMU, try a command 
> something like this:
>
> START qemu.exe -L . -m 128 -fda //./a: -boot a -soundhw sb16 -localtime

> Note the way the param for -fda is specified.  This is a variation on 
> the way to boot directly from a CD drive.  This specifies a floppy boot 
> from the a: device.  I tried this and it worked great for the boot and 
> load.  I was able to swap floppies no problem, didn't have to break out 
> and edit files, etc.  The only problem I had, and I'm fairly sure this 
> may have been a problem unrelated to the QEMU process, is when I had the 
> ROOT prompt up, I typed STARTX and the shell came back saying STARTX not 
> found.  It couldn't find STARTXT either.  Maybe part of the download or 
> the copy to floppy 2 was bad.  Is the shell and busybox on floppy 1? 
> Could the load of floppy 2 failed without giving any warnings?  (If this 
> email has come thru as a HTML please let me know so that I can tell ATT 
> Worldnet their software is junk.)  Thanks.

Did you really type it in ALL CAPS?
You can run just the first floppy disk if you hit Ctrl-C instead of 
putting in disk 2 and typing Enter.  That will let you know what is 
included.  Or from some working linux, look at disk 2, which is a tgz file 
(tar -ztvf /fd/*.tgz).

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 Sindi