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["Sheldon Isaac" <sisaac AT netaxs.com>]

> > > (1) installing BL2 to HD
> > 
> > I haven't yet found out how to do that.
> 
> Type the following (inside BL2) and press ENTER:
> -------
> install
> -------

Many thanks, Steven - it works fine!

My friend David advised me regarding partitions for swapfiles and other 
important things. I'm going to take a break before trying to figure out how 
to make additional partitions while still saving what's on the existing 
one.

At present, my new $55 computer has one bootable DOS/Win partition of about 
583Mb, and one native Linux partition (DOS's fdisk says it's a non-DOS 
partition) of about 2654Mb, with a gazillion files on it that I mostly 
don't understand yet.
(I suppose I could use  cfdisk  to make the Linux partition bootable, and 
the DOS one not?)

>> But none of the alias commands seem to be done, because when I say
>>  plain   alias   , none of the new things show up. 

> When you execute a script, it runs in a subshell (inside a separate
> environment).  Any environmental changes (eg. alias)  affect that
> sub-environment only.  When your script is finished,  the subshell
> terminates and the environmental changes disappear.  However, doing
> them one by one from the command prompt works.  Commands entered from
> the command line operate on the current  environment.  To get a script
> to operate on your current  environment, put a dot in front of the
> script when you execute it: 
> 
> . script-name  

Aha!
That's like the   .  .bashrc  that I've done on my ISP's system.

Thanks again,

Sheldon Isaac
215-842-0863