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> So far I have done the following:
>    1. Down loaded the zip containing Basic Linux
>    2. Unzipped the contents and including make the floppies.
>    3. Created the floppies.

I assume you did the floppies because you are running
Windows NT/2000/XP ?

>    4. I ran off of the floppies once.
>    5. It seem to work ok.

OK, it sounds like the ramdisk version is working.

>    6. I then decided install it on the hard drive.
>    7. I have created a boot.bat file with following in it.

Hold on.  The last step of the installation routine is doing
the boot.bat.  Did you do all the other steps first?

>    8. loadlin zimage root=/dev/hda1 ro

/dev/hda1 is probably your DOS drive (C:)
You need to install BasicLinux onto its own Linux partition.
It does not run from the DOS partition.  Did you read the
HD installation instructions?

>    9. This file is locate on my C: DOS drive.

Is that system booting in DOS or Windows?  boot.bat only
works from real DOS (or Windows 9x in DOS mode).

>   10. I have a attempted to load the files on the hard drive

What exactly did you do?

> However when I run the boot.bat file it stops and seems to 
> give a Warning. Here is what it say:
> 
> Warning: unable to open an initial console
> Kernel panic: no init found. Try passing init= option to kernel.

That happens when the kernel cannot find the root filesystem.
It appears you are pointing the kernel at /dev/hda1 rather
than at the Linux partition where the BasicLinux filesystem
is installed.

> On the screen still is my various information that has been found .
> One of these items is my disk partitions and they are
> hda: hda1  hda2 <hda5 hda6>

Which of those partitions is the Linux partition?

> From what little I know I believe I have the files all located 
> in the correct place 

And where is that exactly?

> The instruction I used were from a post with the following starting url:
> https://lists.ibiblio.org/sympa/arc/baslinux/2003-October/001699.html

The instructions you should be using are inside BasicLinux.  See
the opening screen when you first log on.

I suggest you forget about the floppies (unless you are running 
Windows NT/2000/XP) and unzip the original BasicLinux file into 
a subdirectory of your C: drive.  Execute boot.bat from there,
log on as root, and then enter the following:
-------
install
-------

Cheers,
Steven