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Is the problem with floppy 2 that it cannot recognize a USB floppy drive?

I was able to run BL from a zip drive after booting from floppy, using a 
special boot floppy created by David Moberg (posted at my site).  You need 
a few modules on it to use the zip drive.

Used hard drives and CD-ROM drives are cheap or free.  Someone created a 
CD-ROM image of BL - where is it?

Do you have a floppy drive controller on the motherboard?

 Sindi Keesan

On Wed, 17 Dec 2008, baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org wrote:

> Message from Steven
> ===================
> > BL 3.5 first floppy loaded OK.  However on  the second
> > floppy I got this error message:
> >
> > mount: mounting /dev/fd0 on /fd failed: block device required
>
> The second floppy is not necessary.  The first floppy
> installs everything essential.  I suggest you press
> CTRL-C when it asks for the second floppy.  You should
> then be able to use the system.  IIRC the second floppy
> contains the X GUI, the links browser, and the kernel
> modules.  Everything else should work.
>
> Cheers,
> Steven