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[sindi keesan <keesan AT SDF.ORG>]

Does this floppy disk work on some other computer?  They go bad with age.
Try a freshly formatted floppy disk for the install.

Do you know the hard drive is still good?
Can you easily remove it and try booting without it?

What model computer?   I have run BL1 on a 386 with 3MB RAM, slowly.

Today I am trying to put BL3 loop on a 1997 133MHz HP Omnibook upgraded to 
64MB RAM and 3GB hard drive.  No USB, no CD boot.  Floppy boot works. I 
plan to copy files over the network via PCMCIA network card.

Another option is Puppy Linux if you can find a way to get it on there.
Can you boot from CD?

On Tue, 28 Jan 2014, mrmycorn wrote:

> When I try to boot floppy Disk1, it only goes so far, the everything freezes. 
> ??This is the last line of text that appears while booting Disk1:
>
> ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7, 0x3f6 on irq 14
>
> A blinking cursor appears beneath this line, but no input from the keyboard 
> registers.
>
> I am really hopeful that Basic Linux can be made to work, as it is my old 
> pc's last chance at being useful!
>
> Thanks!
> -Mike

Sindi Keesan