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> > I simply mirrored the libc5 and glibc21 TinyX server packages from Xorg.
> > For BL3 use the libc5 i810 server (and Steven's package no-xvesa for
> > adding standard X, which adds and modifies a few things besides changing
> > servers).  BL3 uses libc5-based X libraries.
>
> Where do i find this "libc5 i810 server"? None of the servers on the page explainig "How  to 
>  Replace  Xvesa" have an "i810" in their name or suggest otherwise they could be the proper 
> server. And if i found this server, could i use it with a 2.2 kernel?

http://keesan.freeshell.org/Xtiny-480-libc5.tgz  (BL3.50
http://keesan.freeshell.org/Xtiny-480-glibc21.tgz  (BL2.1)

Download the package and unpackage it and look in a subdirectory for the 
actual X servers.  Or get the file from Xorg binary collection like I did. 
If you use dialup I will extract it and post just the one server there.

> > 2.4 kernels never worked for me in the DOS loop version of BL3 except in
> > read-only mode.  They work if you boot to an ext2 partition. But you can
> > use a 2.2 kernel with BL3.50.
> >
> > Nobody could tell me the reason, but the solution is to:
> >
> > 1.  use 2.2 kernel with BL3.50 (and libc5, or glibc 2.1 or 2.2 or 2.3.1)
> > 2.  install to ext2 partition and use 2.4 kernel if you want USB storage
> > support.  The loop version is for learning on and is small.

> Do i get you right, that a 2.4 kernel simply can't use a loop device as 
> root? If so, this is rather strange, because this DOES work:

I don't understand how loop works and nobody responded when I mentioned 
the problem a few years ago.  Maybe it is related to how I compiled it. 
Try a different 2.4 kernel from Slackware (with matching modules since 
they must be compiled with the same gcc as the kernel).

> losetup /dev/loop1 /DOS/baslin/fs.img
> mount /dev/loop1 /mnt
>
> Mounting the very same file on /mnt doesn't seem to be any problem, just 
> mounting it as root, fails. What's so different with the root device?
> Even this fails:
>
> mount /dev/loop0 / -o remount,rw
> mount: Mounting /dev/loop0 on / failed: Permission denied

> What permissions, other than being "uid=0(root) gid=0", could it take, 
> to successfully complete such an operation?

I don't understand most of this.  I am self-taught in linux.  Look at my 
kernel configuration file.

> > The following I think means you are running the loop version (from a DOS
> > baslin directory).  And that you upgraded gcc when you switched kernels.
> > 2.95.3 has worked well for me.  What is senior2.16?
> >
> > > /<#>cat /proc/version
> > > Linux version 2.2.26 (root AT senior2.16) (gcc version egcs-2.91.66 
> > > 19990314/Linux (egcs-1.1.2 release)) #6 Fri Nov 11 17:21:34 NZDT 2005
> > > /<#>cat /etc/mtab
> > > /dev/hda5 /DOS msdos rw 0 0
> > > /dev/root / ext2 rw 0 0
> > > /dev/root.old /initrd ext2 rw 0 0
> > > none /proc proc rw 0 0

> Yes indeed, i am running it from a loop device. I didn't touch gcc, i 
> haven't even installed one. And i don't know either who "senior2.16" is. 
> This is just the message i get from the original 2.2 kernel which came 
> with the zip-file. So if you don't know, who "senior2.16" is, who else 
> could know it?

The previous BL (2.1) used 2.16 kernel.

> > Can you replace onboard video with an AGP or even PCI video card?

> Of course i can. I could even buy an entirely new computer with some 
> sort of Microsoft Windows alread installed on it. :-) But that's not the 
> kind of solution i'm looking for.

I also replace onboard sound with something better and more standard.
i810 does not work well in DOS or svgalib (VGA only) and uses onboard 
memory.

Someone else in our list got i810 working eventually.  Check the archives.

Sindi