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>   There is a larger loop file with some extra progs already installed
> and ready to go. But it is a big download: 26.9 MB.

You can make a larger loop file yourself using dd.

Boot with 2-floppy BL3.50
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dd if=/dev/zero of=fs50.img bs=1024k count=50

This creates a 50MB image file  (50 1024k=1MB blocks in an output files 
callsed fs50.img)
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mke2fs fs50.img

Puts on a file system
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mkdir /newimg

mount -o loop fs50.img /newimg

Make a new mount point and mount the image file so you can copy things to 
it.
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I am not sure about this rest of this, since my notes are for copying from 
ext2 to loop linux, but I think you can then copy files from the existing 
loop linux.

Assuming you have the loop linux in /dev/hda1 (C: partition)

Mount the DOS directory containing the old image file
mount /dev/hda1 /hd

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mkdir /oldimg

mount -o loop /dev/hda1/baslin/fs.img /oldimg

Makes another mount point and mounts the 20MB image to it so you can copy 
files from it.
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cp -a /oldimg/* /newimg
(wait for files to copy)

This should copy all your files to the new image file.
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umount /dev/hda1/baslin/fs.img
mv fs.img fsold.img

This unmounts the old image file and renames it (as a backup).
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umount /newimg
cp fs50.img /dev/hda1/baslin/fs.img
This unmounts the new image file and copies it to c:\baslin under the name 
of the old image file.

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Reboot and run BL3.50 loop using the new 50MB image file.

Steven, please correct any goofs in the above.

A bigger loop file is helpful if you cannot make a separate linux 
partition on your hard disk.  I have put loop BL3 onto a memory card 
or zip drive (which was formatted FAT).  I boot with floppy disk and then 
mount the loop file and chroot to it.

Sindi