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Matrix Mole wrote:
>
> Basically what I'm going to do, is set BL up as a server 
> machine and run it headless, most of my maintenance I'll 
> be doing through telnet sessions. 

I used a spare machine like that (on BL1) for about six months.
All it did was serve a HD and a CDrom (using NFS) to my other
two systems.  I suppose I could have put the modem in it and 
used it as a firewall.  Or put the printer on it and run lpd.
Anyway, the interesting bit was:  the whole thing booted from
a customized baslinux.gz and ran in a ramdrive.  Every time I
turned on that computer, I got a completely fresh installation.
And I could exit simply by pressing the off button.

> I'm thinking of having an autoexec that simply calls boot.bat

Or just rename boot.bat to autoexec.bat

> I got all the man packages installed that I can think off with 
> the exception of manpages.tgz. Is this package neccessary to 
> install? 

It gives you the foundation manpages.  If you don't need them,
no problem.  But, chances are you'll need one of them someday.


Cheers,
Steven