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[Justin Gombos <mindfuq AT sbcglobal.net>]

* 3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org <3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org> [2006-11-19 00:18]:
> 
> Was your C: drive formated from MSDOS, DrDOS, 
> Windows, or something else?

It's FAT16 and I believe it was formatted using MSDOS (win95 varient),
but I dug this drive out of a box of parts I've been sitting on for
probably a decade.  Back then I would have used MSDOS.  (Though if I
repartitioned it again today, I'd use freeDOS 7 or linux).

My next approach is to use GNU parted to shrink the FAT16 partition to
make room for an EXT2 partition.

> When you execute boot.bat, what exactly happens?  Is there
> any output?  Does anything happen at all?

It outputs the commandline that it's executing ("loadlin ... "), and
simply freezes.  There is no drive activity or anything.

> Which unzipper did you use to unzip bl3-40.zip?  What files
> did you get and what size are they?  Did you edit or change
> anything before executing boot.bat?

I mounted the FAT16 partition using Damn Small Linux ("DSL").  I
copied the files from a USB drive, which were possibly expanded on an
XP box.. or I used DSLs unzip; I'm not certain.  Here are the hashes
and listing:

5b846ea59a3cd7f2af19686823be6d85  /mnt/hda1/baslin/boot.bat
ec9e91865794012d0a9bc8ea2d754126  /mnt/hda1/baslin/fs.img
acc614f11a9afd8a0ceaba5f79c155df  /mnt/hda1/baslin/initfs.gz
e02f6bda08d25df6b64dcca22b950784  /mnt/hda1/baslin/loadlin.exe
caa5c1e7fc29d977741eb22edfb35d38  /mnt/hda1/baslin/readme.txt
73b134ca9ec5092ae1d206bc2e54cee7  /mnt/hda1/baslin/swap.zip
30a21cc2afabf184837c9bb32abc776f  /mnt/hda1/baslin/zimage
9a2b048cec85a7a35aa4f6eea5eadfbc  /mnt/hda1/baslin/zimage.4dx

-rwxrwxrwx  1 knoppix knoppix      114 Dec 17 17:37 /mnt/hda1/baslin/boot.bat
-rwxrwxrwx  1 knoppix knoppix 20971520 Dec 16 03:40 /mnt/hda1/baslin/fs.img
-rwxrwxrwx  1 knoppix knoppix    43821 Dec 16 03:40 /mnt/hda1/baslin/initfs.gz
-rwxrwxrwx  1 knoppix knoppix    32225 Dec 16 03:40 
/mnt/hda1/baslin/loadlin.exe
-rwxrwxrwx  1 knoppix knoppix     2466 Dec 16 03:40 
/mnt/hda1/baslin/readme.txt
-rwxrwxrwx  1 knoppix knoppix     6855 Dec 16 03:40 /mnt/hda1/baslin/swap.zip
-rwxrwxrwx  1 knoppix knoppix   458327 Dec 16 03:40 /mnt/hda1/baslin/zimage
-rwxrwxrwx  1 knoppix knoppix   442140 Dec 17 22:26 
/mnt/hda1/baslin/zimage.4dx

> Hopefully, one of these things will point to the problem.

Thanks for your help!