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sheywood AT shentel.net wrote:
>
> I don't have enough space on my hard drive at 
> this time to set aside to make a partition for 
> a hard drive installation of BasicLinux.  

Are all four IDE connectors being used?  If not, you 
could add an old HD.  Even 85mb would be very useful.

> It would be really cool if we could have two different 
> versions prepared for a ram drive installation, one 
> being a package for a small ram drive and 
> another for a much larger ram drive.  

Does your computer have a CDrom drive?  There are some 
neat distributions on CDrom that run in a ramdrive.

> I hope this idea of mine will fly well.  

If you just want the usual BL2 ramdrive filesystem
sitting on a larger ramdrive, that could be done
(although it would need a new kernel).  However, it 
sounds like you want the HD-installation filesystem 
(instead of the ramdrive filesystem) sitting on that 
ramdrive.

Perhaps the best solution for you is to create a large
ramdrive from inside BL2 and point the HD-installation
routine at that ramdrive.  You could then change the
root filesystem to that ramdrive (without rebooting)
and run that version of BL2.  Once you did this manually
a few times (and got the bugs out) you could write a 
script for it and insert it into baslinux.gz.  You 
could even automate the whole thing so that booting BL2 
automatically creates the big ramdisk, installs the HD 
installation packages (from CDrom or /slakware directory 
on your HD) and changes to the new filesystem.  

Cheers,
Steven