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I'm trying to run a BasicLinux 3.50 virtual machine in qemu
using Slitaz linux as the host system. But there's one problem ...

When the boot process is finished reading BL DISK1.IMG, it says:

<quote>
Insert floppy 2 and press ENTER
</quote>

I go to the qemu monitor and issue these commands:

<quote>
(qemu) eject floppy0
(qemu) change floppy0 /home/virtual/bl/DISK2.TGZ
(qemu)
</quote>

Then exit the qemu monitor to go back to the BL virtual machine:

<quote>
Insert floppy 2 and press ENTER
</quote>

Upon pressing enter i get this message:

<quote>
[MS-DOS FS Rel. 12,FAT 16,check=n,conv=b,uid=0,gid=0,umask=022,bmap]
[me=0xe7,cs=9424,#f=223,fs=24210,fl=1451234,ds=324697968,de=63472,data=324701936
,se=40567,ts=2070600374,ls=32157,rc=0,fc=4294967295]
Transaction block size=512
VFS: Can't find a valid MSDOS filesystem on dev 02:00.
mount: Mounting /dev/fd0 on /fd failed: Invalid argument
zcat: /fd/disk2.tgz: No such file or directory

Insert floppy 2 and press ENTER
</quote>

At this point, if i press Ctrl+c, it stops the boot process
and leaves me with a command-line BL which works fine.
There's just no X-windows system available.

I also tried copying DISK2.TGZ to disk2.tgz (i.e., lowercase
instead of uppercase), and changing to that in qemu,
but that gave the same error message.

Am i doing something wrong with the qemu commands?

-monz