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James Miller wrote:
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> And what kind of kernel supports 15MB (or bigger) ramdisks?

It is a compile-time option.  In the future, I may compile
a special 2.2.16 kernel so that I can do a two-floppy version 
of BL3 to run in a ramdisk (but that will only run on systems 
with 16mb RAM or more, so it's not a high priority).

> Let's say I wanted to compile some program or other for BL3.  
> What kind of system should it be compiled on?  Slack3.5, 3.9?  

Either of those would be OK, but the best fit is Slackware 4.0
(libc5 with 2.2 kernel).  Slack4 also has a more up-to-date
compiler.

> Is the main requirement that it be using libc5?  

For the moment.  Once uClibc is stable, I may upgrade the 
libraries.  

Cheers,
Steven