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The Win2K I am setting up for someone self-destructed when I installed a 
Trident sound driver and now I get a blue screen 'Cannot load device 
driver ks.sys'.  Safe mode and other modes give me the same screen.

Someone else with a different sound driver and card but same problem fixed 
it by copying over ks.sys after installing Win2K to another partition 
(sort of like having another kid with the right bone marrow to rescue the 
first).  I would hate to install Win2K again.  (I did it 10 times already 
before changing to a non-overclocked CPU).

I found a Village Idiot Boot Disk (wbootess.exe - unzip, then write the 
resulting .ima file to floppy using dd, since the exe won't execute except 
under Windows) with extract.exe from Win98 but it runs out of memory 
running in DOS.  This is a 52MB driver.cab and Win98 has 1.4MB CAB files 
(floppy disk size).

I found and compiled linux cabextract for glibc 2.2.5 - 48K stripped 
(http://keesan.freeshell./org/bl/cabextract) and attempted it for uclibc 
so I could use it with 2-floppy linux but it would not compile.  Something 
missing.

I finally moved the Windows hard disk to secondary controller and put in a 
DOS/linux hard disk, ran BL2 from that and copied cabextract to 
/usr/local/bin.  It extracted all the files when I tried to extract just 
one.  I copied over ks.sys and portcls.sys (which Windows had also 
complained about and which were the same size but different md5sums).  It 
then complained about not finding ntoskrnl.exe but booted (very very 
slowly) into Safe Mode command prompt, which worked and must have fixed 
something because plain Safe Mode and then Regular Mode booted properly in 
normal time.

Steven, could you download the 200K or so source code and compile for 
libc5 so it can be used with 2-floppy BL3?  It compiles easily and quickly 
for glibc.  I cannot find it precompiled.  Is there a good libc5 
precompiled package site?  The DOS binary and source code links at the 
cabextract site are 404 Not Found.

Knoppix supposedly has cabextract.  DSL has a downloadable package.
But they don't boot on this machine (syslinux is fussy).

Sindi Keesan