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Krzysztof Karwowski wrote:
>
> I want to boot BL 2.1 from CD, but I don't know how to 
> do it. Can you help me?

To which, electronjunkie AT alltel.net replied:
>
> burn a bootable cd with a program like nero or some burning 
> program so that it will boot into DOS and copy the BL 2.1 
> unzipped files onto cd as well then boot from the cd into DOS 

That sounds like a way to go.  Make a bootable-DOS CD and boot 
the ramdisk BL2 from there (using LOADLIN).

> and type the boot cmd to start linux. 

If you put the boot command into C:\AUTOEXEC.BAT, it will boot
BasicLinux automatically.

If you want to boot a fuller version (HD installation) of BL2
from the CD, you will need to find out whether a CD can be
partitioned.  If not, you probably won't be able to use LOADLIN 
to boot the Linux partition -- you'll need to use LILO, or
whatever it is that bootable Linux CDroms use.

I think the Slackware 7.1 CD is bootable (I don't have a CD
drive that boots, so I can't check this).  If it is bootable,
you might be able to copy the routine it uses.  

Cheers,
Steven