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[Lee Forrest <lforrestster AT gmail.com>]

On Thu, Dec 21, 2006 at 03:49:45AM +0000, sindi keesan wrote:
> >>From BL3 site:
> >
> >This version comes as a 2.9 mb zip file. It unzips to a
> >directory on drive C: BL3 boots from DOS and runs in a loop
> >file.
> >
> >Minimum requirements Intel 386 or compatible 3 mb RAM DOS (or
> >Windows 95/98 in DOS mode)
> >
> >/quote
> >
> >I can create a DOS filesystem with mkdosfs, but it wouldn't be
> >bootable (says the manpage), and I don't know if that would
> >nip things in the bud.
> >
> >But I'm not running DOS or win 95/98, or dosemu, and I'm
> >pretty sure _that_ would nip things in the bud.
> >
> >
> >Lee
>
> Can you make a 30MB or so partition and install FREEDOS to it?
>
> Can you run BL3.40 under dosemu? I got it working, I think only
> the libc6 version.
>
> Everything is working now except 2.4.31 in loop BL3 (and of
> course I also need a usable wireless connection).

I'm not interested in running a DOS emulator, Sin. It's a big and
complex program and I have no experience with emulators or DOS. I
wouldn't even get it operational and figure out how to use it before
you solved your problem.

Sorry,

Lee