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[Ron Clarke <ariadne AT earthlink.com.au>]

Hi Folks,

On Mon, 24 Jul 2006 03:13:09 +0000 (UTC)
sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org> wrote:

> >   I can get an external USB hard drive with 4 partitions to work with 
> > BL3 and kernel 2.2.26. I can then mount sda1, sda2, sda3 and sda4 on 
> > /hd/sda(n).
> 
> 
> Good to know.  I will try 2.2.26 with the USB zip drive and also with our 
> USB external hard drive (80GB, $2 at yard sale) once we find a power 
> supply for it, though 2.2.26 won't work with the camera or card reader or 
> USB pen drive (all of which work in DOS).
> 
> Can you boot to BL3 on the USB hard drive from DOS? 

   I haven't tried, but I would think so, if I boot DOS with USB enabled. On 
the other hand, I have no reason to want to.  :)

> Or load the required 
> modules and chroot to it?  (You might need to edit initrd.gz to load them 
> in order to boot to it). 

   I have enough distros of BL to play with, on my regular hard drives.  I 
use the external USB drive for other things (like backing up the 
irreplaceable stuff from DOS and Linux). I am unlikely to use the external 
USB drive for a BL bootable distro.

> What power supply does it need (AC or DC, voltage?).

    It has a power-supply/transformer to reduce 220 v AC to whatever it needs.

Regards,
         Ron

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