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Bootable BL ISO.  A ISO image of BL 3.32 exists.  It used to be on a site on 
Geocities but when Geocities was taken down the image, along with many other 
useful support files for BL was moved to roflcopter.homelinux.net.  This is 
(or was) another free hosted site (like Geocities) and apparently just as 
reliable, the files are gone.  If there is somewhere safe to upload to I can 
probably upload the BL3.32 ISO there.  The ISO is zipped.  FYI there is also 
a BL2.1 ISO if anyone is interested.

--- On Tue, 11/16/10, baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org <baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org> 
wrote:

> From: baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org <baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org>
> Subject: Re: [BL] Lilo on boot CD?
> To: baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org
> Date: Tuesday, November 16, 2010, 10:40 PM
> On Tue, 16 Nov 2010, baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org
> wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 16 Nov 2010, baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org
> wrote:
> >> 
> >> I would still like to boot (to DOS or with lilo)
> from a bootable CD or pcmcia flash card.  Do they have
> special boot sectors like FD and HD? Or do I simply make an
> .iso of the few files put onto a hard drive by DOS 'sys'
> command and burn to a CD?
> >> 
> >> Sindi
> 
> Ultimate Boot CD has several options:
> DOS/Linux boot disks
> Boot First Hard Disk
> Boot Second Hard Disk
> 
> First Hard Disk booted to the OS on hda1 of another laptop,
> which happened to be XP. (The desktop without Windows does
> not boot from any CD-ROM).
> XP was already on here in a FAT32 partition when I got
> it.  Normally I get a choice of that or 'Windows' (DOS
> 7.1) when booting from hard drive.
> 
> DOS gave me several choices.  FreeDOS took a few
> minutes to boot because it kept asking about support for
> scsi, usb, lfn, etc.  It is designed
> for running 'DOS apps' and ends up on R or Q (I forget) but
> I can type c:
> and then load BL with loadlin.
> 
> I will try a simpler faster-booting CD for this
> purpose.  Turns out the laptop won't boot MOST of the
> time from at least three hard drives which do boot in other
> computers, but will recognize them.  Very odd.
> Something interesting must have happened to the IDE
> controller since
> it does still boot CDs and let me mount hard disk
> partitions once I boot to linux.  Does not read
> floppies at all.  The original 5GB drive stopped
> booting but a replacement booted until yesterday - maybe the
> drive damaged the controller or vice versa somehow.
> 
> Has anyone booted from pcmcia devices?  In addition to
> CF card and adaptor,  I have a pcmcia IBM Travelstar
> hard drive, big enough to run BL from (700MB?).
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