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ljones wrote:
>
> 1. How do I install Basiclinux 2.1 on a UMSDOS 
> (just a plain dos based)  partition? 

I suggest you use zipslack from Slackware 7.1.  Just
unzip zipslack.zip (from the /zipslack directory) to
your DOS partition and boot.

> the laptop  dosen't like ext2 much (it often stops 
> with CRC errors, even from bootup 
> :( . DOS partitons don't give any problems, however).

IMHO you probably have some flakey hardware.  Linux is 
generally more demanding on hardware and will trip over 
flakey hardware before DOS does.
 
> 2. What do I need to do to install a file mamanger? 

Console or X?  mc is a pretty good console file manager.
For X, Slackware 7.1 provides two different file managers
(both in /slakware/xap1):  
----------------------------------------------------------
TkDesk is a graphical file manager for X.  Compared with 
other file managers available, it offers the most complete 
set of file operations and services, plus gives the user 
the ability to configure most every aspect of TkDesk in a       
powerful way.  The reason for this is the use of Tcl/Tk as 
the configuration and implementation language.                           
----------------------------------------------------------
xfm is a powerful file and applications manager program 
written using the X toolkit.  It contains virtually all 
of the features that you would expect in a file manager 
-- move around your directory tree in multiple windows, 
and move/copy/delete files with simple mouse operations.  
The integrated application manager allows you to load 
files into your favorite applications from the file 
manager by dragging icons.  
----------------------------------------------------------

> 3. Can any programming langaugages be installed? 

BASH (even in the ramdisk version) has a powerful scripting
language that can be used as a general purpose programming
language.  The adventure game in BL2 (/usr/games/castle) 
was written to demonstrate the power of BASH scripting.

Slackware 7.1 includes packages for several programming 
languages:  perl, python, slang, C/C++, Objective C, 
Fortran, LISP.

Cheers,
Steven