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I set mem=3M in boot.bat and put # in front of the second two
getty lines in inittab and booted again.

I can dial (ppp-on), telnet (busybox) and ppp-off.
Ppp-off is rather slow and I hear the hard drive for 
a while but ppp-on and telnet were reasonably fast.

I can also browse with links, only slightly slower
than usual (a bit of hard drive noise).

I can load Xvesa in real time, but when I try to load
Xvesa and rxvt the hard drive makes noise for a long time,
I get some vertical green stripes and a crash.  I cannot
reboot either.  I presume this means it ran out of RAM.

BL3 should be quite usable in 3M for writing mail (if
this arrives it worked), and for telnetting to a shell
account to do mail and use lynx or links there.

I can also do mail and telnet and run lynx in DOS 
in 3M, with a DOS viewer, using less disk space.

I do not have the swap file unzipped.  I thought you 
could not swap to hard drive without a swap file or
partition.  Please explain, Steven, why I hear the
hard drive when trying to load too much at once?

Sindi