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Message from Steven
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Teixeira wrote:
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> My friend Stremer says he created the 2 floppies 
> with tgz  

The two floppies are different:  the first must be
copied with dd, the second must be copied with cp.

> and he doesn't know if he could do it with mkisofs 

He should not use mkisofs to make the floppies.

> (he's got no Windows nor floppy on his machine).

The two floppies can be created with Linux (using
dd and cp).  The lack of a floppy is a bigger problem.

> He's booting from VMware 

Will the BL3 image for QEMU work in VMware?  I've
never used VMware so I do not know.  Ask your friend
if he can use a QEMU image.  Alternatively, he could
use fs.img (from the DOS version of BL3).  fs.img is
a 20mb filesyste with BL3 on it.  He should be able 
to mount it on his linux system.

> Stremer intends to purchase a 486 CPU in order to 
> install BL-3. Steven, do you think it's a good idea?

I like 486 laptops.  They are cheap and useful.  But
make sure it has at least 12mb RAM.  More is better.

Cheers,
Steven