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First thing I tried today was to create another 2nd floppy on the drive I would then shift to the broken PC and boot from.  I got this idea from extensive reading of the BL archive of messages.  Unfortunately it didn't work.  So I gave up on BL and moved on to DamnSmall.  Made a bootable flash drive with the latest CD of DamnSmall I have and then tried it on the busted machine.  It loaded and is now running.  Hooray.  Now I have to find out if the other ports (standard serial, PCMCIA) work too.  Might actually make some use of this Old, ruined laptop.  Is there a way to install a bootable image of BL onto a flash drive like you can with DS linux?

 

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> > Message from Steven
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> > >
> > > 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
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