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> > 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?

Typo - I omitted one x

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

I just extracted:
http://keesan.freeshell.org/Xi810-libc5.gz (400K)
Gunzip, chmod +x if needed.

> 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
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