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Sindi Keesan wrote:
>
> But I am trying to get BL2 (hard drive installation) to 
> work with Opera and minimal files and Xvesa.  Do I just 
> see what you included for BL3 and install the equivalents 
> for BL2?

Opera is not a minimal binary.  It requires lots of additional
bits & pieces.  Libraries for starters, and it probably needs
a complete set of fonts.  It may also be using some of the files 
in /var/X11R6/lib.  None of those things are in BL3.

I don't understand why you are bothering to minimize X to run
Opera.  Just install the required X packages and be done with
it.  The size difference will only be a few megabytes.  

> > When the BL3 foundation is finished, I will be working 
> > on add-ons for BL3.  
> 
> What sorts of add-ons?

I'll probably be doing the following:
(1) customized kernel optimized for 486dx
(2) customized kernel optimized for low-end Pentium
(3) pre-configured browser/mailer (Netscape 3.04 ?)
(4) pre-configured wordprocessor (abiword?  flwriter?)
(5) additional libraries

Plus the various static binaries that (hopefully) will 
work with BL3:  ssh, links-ssl, xfreecell, etc.

Cheers,
Steven