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[James Miller <jamtat AT mailsnare.net>]

On Thu, 27 Apr 2006, sindi keesan wrote:

> Can the second floppy disk be changed to an .img file and loaded somehow
> with qemu?

Steven's recent post covering this:

> From 3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org Wed Apr 26 16:38:46 2006
Subject: Re: [BL] BL 3.40 in qemu image

Yesterday I wrote:
> However, I have managed to boot the floppy version in QEMU:
> ----------------------------
> qemu -fda bl3.f1 -fdb bl3.f2
> ----------------------------
> When it asked for floppy 2, I hit CTRL-C and edited /etc/rc. 
> I changed the line that says "mount /fd" to: 
> ------------------
> mount /dev/fd1 /fd
> ------------------
> Then executed:  /etc/rc

I have found a better way of doing the same thing:
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qemu -fda bl3.f1
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Then when it asks you for the second floppy:
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CTRL-ALT-2
change fda  bl3.f2
CTRL-ALT-1 
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Cheers,
Steven