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I seem to recall (memory somewhat faulty these days) that the instructions 
said to use the regular copy command to move parts 1 and 2 to each floppy for 
BL 2.  I don't think that will be enough to produce a DOS boot disk.  You 
would need to either /s format the floppy first or use one of the bit write 
programs, like what is included with the BL 3 package.  Sorry but I have 
suddenly become busy with other stuff at the moment.  Having to replace all 
the security software on my Windows PCs...

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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 
> >> 
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