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Gilles Molesini wrote:
>
> The installation instructions tell to place packages on a 
> Dos partition, or read them from a CD rom.
> On this latop i can't have simultaneously a floppy disk 
> and a cd rom. 

I assume that means you have a single expansion port which
can only take one thing at a time.  

> I don't want to make a dos partition on my hard drive,

Not even temporarily?  The DOS partition can subsequently
be reformatted as swap (or something else).  It doesn't even
need to be a DOS partition -- any spare partition will do
(as long as Linux can read it) to hold the Slackware 7.1
installation packages temporarily.

> is it possible to read the package from a floppy disk to 
> install them ? 

Possible, yes.  Easy, no.  The installation routine is designed 
to check for the presence of all the packages before beginning.  
It would need to be edited to enable one-by-one installation.

Instead of using the floppy disk, it might be easier to boot 
BasicLinux from a CDrom (and then the CDrom drive will be 
available to install the packages).  If you have a CDrom burner, 
you could create a bootable DOS CDrom with the BL2 (ramdisk) 
files:  boot.bat, zimage, loadlin.exe and baslinux.gz.  Then
attach the laptop CDrom drive, boot the DOS CDrom and execute
boot.bat.

Cheers,
Steven