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[Terry Maiden <t.maiden AT att.net>]

Virtual Box and QEMU versions of BL 3.5 are available in Mr. Miller's folder 
on SDF.  Please see http://cmiller.sdf-us.org/baslin/baslin3/

--- On Sat, 1/7/12, sindi keesan <keesan AT SDF.ORG> wrote:

> From: sindi keesan <keesan AT SDF.ORG>
> Subject: Re: [BL] Hello from Virginia...
> To: baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org
> Date: Saturday, January 7, 2012, 9:18 AM
> On Sat, 7 Jan 2012, neil tanner
> wrote:
> 
> > Hi again from S.E. Virginia.  It's been a long time
> since I was here with the Basic Linux group.  I found you
> back in 2000/2001 and with some help from the folks here
> managed to install BL to an old toshiba laptop I had at the
> time.  I see some familiar 'faces' here from back then. 
> Right now I'm using Arch Linux on an "EMachine" but wouldn't
> mind setting up BL again.  I've just started looking thru
> the archives and noticed someone (maybe Sindi) mentioned
> loading an image on a flashdrive and someone else talked
> about running it in virtualbox.  Both look like good
> ideas.  Also, back when I was using BL on my toshiba, I had
> dial-up and it ran flawlessly but wondered how difficult is
> to set up using wifi?  All right....happy New Year and hope
> to be using BL again soon. Neil
> 
> Please set your mail program to send plain text without a
> second copy in HTML.
> 
> I have run BL from a zip drive and from a USB_storage
> camera by booting a single floppy version then mounting the
> other drive and chrooting to it. Zip drives are pretty
> slow.  Running from the camera let me use svgalib
> viewer zgv to look at the pictures on someone else's
> computer (with floppy drive).  I posted a small
> camera-linux package for svgalib, which works on CRT
> monitors.  My camera card was 16MB so I omitted X and
> used svgalib viewer zgv.  svgalib does not work well on
> LCD monitors.  Other people have used it with qemu.
> 
> BL3 supports pcmcia airo_cs wireless and some orinoco
> cards.
> Kernel 2.4 supports all orinoco cards.  Non-cardbus.
> 
> I am online with BL3 loop version on a 233Mhz Compaq Armada
> where BL2 won't boot (crashes with some memory error with
> 2.4 kernel) even with 2.2.26 kernel (fatal: kernel too old)
> and BL3 must be booted nomce (machine check
> exception).  Works okay but I forget why glibc programs
> won't run even after installing SW11 libc (can't
> execute...no such file or directory). Online with 10MB/sec
> 3com pcmcia ethernet card using pcnet_cs. Modified rc to
> swap /dev/hda3 as swap partition.  1GB hard drive also
> contains Win98SE (which on a desktop also 233MHz runs Opera
> 10, seems to depend on the hardware).
> 
> Lovely keyboard, excellent for email, and uses an actual
> heavy-duty grounded power cord not adaptor (transformer is
> interior) so you don't get the problem of flexing of the
> board and power jack solder breaking when used in bed. 
> Also the floppy drive and battery come out to save weight,
> without losing the feet.  They don't make them like
> this any more (for 1/10 the new price).
> 
> 32MB onboard RAM used to let you browse most websites, with
> Opera 8.
> I can ssh to sdf.org to use lynx or links2.  I added
> 64MB.
> 
> Sindi Keesan
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