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On Tue, 5 Jun 2007 baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org wrote:

> So you are saying that diskette 1 for BL 2 must also be a DOS bootdisk? 
> This is no problem but it should be mentioned somewhere in the docs.  I 
> have been thinking about trying to run DOS in QEMU, just to see how that 
> would work.  Please let me know, thanks.  Oh, the other BL discussion 
> stream has been very interesting too...

You can mount /dev/fd0 to look at each BL2 floppy disk and you should see 
DOS command.com, loadlin.exe, boot.bat, and I forget what else on the 
first disk.  Disk1 boots to DOS and then uses loadlin to boot to linux, 
after reassembling the file containing the filesystem from pieces on both 
disks.

I do not recall if the BL2 program for making the two disks puts on the 
DOS boot files or you need to do that yourself.  There must be 
instructions in the downloaded package.

Please set your mail program to send only plain text.

Sindi
> > BL2 I think boots with loadlin from a DOS bootdisk with the kernel and
> > part of the filesystem, then the second disk contains the rest of the file
> > system, which is combined with the first part in DOS.
> > Sindi