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On Thu, 20 Mar 2008, Steven wrote:

> Thank you.  I've copied it and linked it on the 
> BasicLinux homepage.  I'm very happy we now have 
> an up-to-date image for the QEMU users.

You're welcome.

While I was at this and had sort of figured out anew how I went about this 
3 years ago (or whenever it was that I made the last qemu image), I decided 
to have a go at making a totally fresh install--creating a new virtual 
disk and the works. If nothing else, I would find out whether it would 
make any difference in the final zipped file's size. So I did it.

And, for some reason, it made a huge difference in the final size of the 
zipped file: more than 50% smaller! Still unzips to a 100 MB disk image, 
still has networking enabled by default (insmod 8390, ne, udhcpc eth0 set 
in /etc/rc). So I've uploaded the updated version to my site under the 
same file name. This new one is 2.8 MB as opposed to old file's 7.9 MB. I 
suggest you replace the one I pointed you to earlier with the newer, 
smaller one, Steven.

James