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> Message from Steven
> ===================
> Sindi wrote:
> > Is the problem with floppy 2 that it
> > cannot recognize a USB floppy drive?
>
> Yes, that would appear to be the problem.
> IIRC he is using a USB floppy drive.
>
> Replacing the BL3 kernel with a USB kernel
> would probably fix the problem, but it would
> have to be about the same size as the BL3.
> There's not space on the first floppy for
> a significantly larger kernel.

Try David Moberg's 1-floppy USB capable BL-variant, then mount a USB flash 
drive with BL on it and chroot to it.

Could you put the files for disk2 onto a PCMCIA flash drive instead?
Or compact flash card in PCMCIA adaptor.

I have a PCMCIA CD-ROM drive some place.

Ask around for small used laptop hard drives of the right thickness.  We 
still have one 20MB in a 386.  We have a bunch of thin floppy and CD-ROM 
drives from old rackmount servers that fit into the newer laptops (post 
1998).

Sindi

> Cheers,
> Steven