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Message from Steven
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monz wrote:
>
> 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:

It sounds like you are using the floppy version of
BasicLinux.  Have you tried the QEMU version?

http://www.basiclinux.com.ru/bl3-5qem.zip

Cheers,
Steven








> 
> <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
> 
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