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On Thu, 18 Nov 2010, baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org wrote:

> On Wed, 17 Nov 2010, baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org wrote:
>
> > BL2.1 ISO is here:  http://cmiller.sdf-us.org/baslin/baslin2/
>
> I have copied it to http://keesan.freeshell.org/bl/
>
> The small BL2 laptop kernel I am using right now does not include loop
> (and I don't seem to have compiled that module either) so

I downloaded from my own site loop.o and the package of modules that 
includes ide-cd, cdrom, and isofs.  I insmodded them all (cdrom.o caused a 
segfault but does not seem to be needed).  I mounted the iso file
mount -o loop bl*.iso /mnt (there is some fancier way to do it but this 
works, however you cannot unmount it later).  Inside it was a bl2*.img and 
a boot.catalog (binary file).  I then mounted bl2*.img loop to /hd  (you 
can mount up to 8 things loop with this loop.o module) and it contains a 
readme.txt, which says to ignore three of the files in there.  There is a 
freedos kernel.sys and command.com, loadlin, zimage, baslinux.gz, and 
fdauto.bat which says to boot with the last three ro.  I will experiment 
with replacing zimage with my own kernel.  I don't know if boot.catalog 
has to match the file size somehow.  Remarking out fdauto.bat should get 
you into plain DOS (and then maybe you could have a choice of kernels to 
use loadlin with?).  I could also edit it to boot BL from my hard disk 
directly, or use it with my kernel to boot to ramdisk then manually mount 
and chroot to /dev/hda7 where my BL2 resides.  I have no idea how to use 
lilo with a boot CD.

This CD may have been made by adding the BL-pertinent files to a regular 
freedos boot CD (with the three extraneous files).

> I can also post BL3.32 but BL3.5 seems more appropriate.  Steven, do you know 
> how to create BL3.5 boot CD iso?

It should be possible to simply replace the zimage and baslinux.gz and 
fdauto.bat.

Hopefully a larger kernel will fit and if not I can delete the three 
unused files.

> Sindi

BL2-2880.img contains
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root      1637698 Jun 15  2003 baslinux.gz
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root          512 Jan 20  2004 bootsec.bin
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root        64816 Jul 28  2003 command.com
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root          163 Jan 20  2004 fdauto.bat
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root          132 Jan 20  2004 fdconfig.sys
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root         3512 Jul 28  2003 fdxms.sys
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root        45908 Sep 24  2003 kernel.sys
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root        32225 Sep  2  2002 loadlin.exe
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root          640 Jan 20  2004 readme.txt
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root        18183 Dec 11  1995 tdsk.exe
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root       512425 Jan 24  2003 zimage

readme.txt:

This is BasicLinux 2.1 booting from a 2.88 MB Floppy Disk.
Freedos is used for bootstrapping the Linux System.

This image can also be used to make bootable CD-Roms.
Search the Internet for for "Eltorito" and "Bootable CD" for more information.

BasicLinux: http://gd.tuwien.ac.at/opsys/linux/baslinux
FreeDos: http://www.freedos.org

BasicLinux and FreeDos are Licensed under the terms of the GPL. For 
information on the GPL please refer to http://www.gnu.org.

Notes on this Image:
- right now, fdxms.sys and tdsk.exe are not used.
- bootsec.bin is not used at the moment (just a copy of the actual freedos 
boot sector)