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[Sindi Keesan <keesan AT iamjlamb.com>]

On Wed, 25 Feb 2004 3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org wrote:

> Sindi Keesan wrote:
> >
> > Since you say you won't be doing a 2-floppy version of BL3 
> > (at least for a while) or making it easy to install to hard 
> > drive, 
> 
> Installing to HD should not be difficult.  
> cp -a 
> edit /etc/fstab
> edit BOOT.BAT

Is that all that is involved?  I thought it was something a lot more 
complicated, from what I read in the books.  You need to edit boot.bat in 
any event, even with your setup.  

> 
> What I said was I would not be providing a special version
> for HD (a version that includes extra stuff).
> 
> > could you set it up to save the pppd configuration files 
> > (phone number, DNS numbers, etc.) to the hard drive directory 
> > where BL3 is booted from, 
> 
> How is Linux supposed to figure out from which DOS directory
> loadlin.exe was executed?   Perhaps I should specify a
> compulsory DOS directory to use?  For example:  C:\BASLIN

That would work.  You don't even need to use that directory for loadlin,
just as a location to which to save the configuration files.  Someone
might have a nearly full C: partition and have installed BL3 to D:  but
should still have a bit of room for two small files.


> > Another option is to include instructions on how to gunzip 
> > baslinux.gz and modify the configuration files and recompress, 
> 
> BL1 used to include such instructions.  I removed them because
> inexperienced users kept getting into trouble with them.

There is not much that is safe from inexperienced users, including me.
Maybe you could write something that would check first on a: and if 
nothing was there then check C:\baslin, when you do add a 2-floppy option.