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OK, BasicLinux 3.00 is now available:

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http://www.volny.cz/basiclinux/bl3-00.zip
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I've used some new techniques in BL3 so I'm not sure if it 
will boot for all of you.  All my testing has been with MSDOS 
(no Windows here).  I would be very interested to hear if it 
works with other flavors of DOS and with Windows 95/98 in DOS 
mode.

IMPORTANT NOTE:  You must unzip BL3-00.zip in C:\baslin
It will not work anywhere else.  

There is a small swap file in the zip to augment the memory
on low RAM systems.  If you have 4mb RAM, you *must* activate 
the swap file.  It is also a good idea for 8mb RAM (with more 
RAM than that, forget about the swap file).  You activate the
swap file by unzipping it (in C:\baslin).

BL3 auto-mounts your C: partition (in order to access some files 
in C;\baslin), so there is a now a possibility of you accidently 
deleting files on C:.  I suggest you do not play with BL3 on a 
system that has valuable data on your C: drive.

To mount a DOS floppy:
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mount /fd
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To mount a CDrom, you will need to do three insmods to activate 
CDrom-capability (unlike BL2, it is not built into the kernel).  
See /etc/rc.  BTW, any configuration changes you make to BL3 will 
*not* disappear when you reboot.  They will still be there next 
time you boot.  So, if you edit /etc/rc or /etc/profile, your
changes will come into effect the next time you boot.

Cheers,
Steven