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James Miller wrote:
>
> I think BL1 has some kind of counterpart to BL2's (and Slackware's)
> removepkg, doesn't it 

Unfortunately, no.

> Or maybe he could use something like pkgtool for BL1?  Seems like 
> there should be some such way to remove installed packages.  

removepkg works by going through the package list created by 
installpkg (in /var/log/packages) and deleting the files one-by-one 
(after checking, I think, that no other package list contains that 
file).  The pkg command in BL1 does not create a package list.

> I don't know that Steven would ever make the sort of install-to-hd 
> routine for BL3 that BL1 and 2 have.

It's not that difficult.  It would only take 30 minutes to write 
and debug the script.  Maybe less.   

> Certainly a way of getting BL3 loaded onto an ext2 partition 
> could be worked out.  

The script would be exactly the same whether you transfer to a
HD partition on a new loop.  First, you format the partition
(or loop file), then you mount it at /hd and execute install
(the script).  Once the script has transfered everything, you
umount and edit BOOT.BAT to find the new root filesystem.

> M$ is starting to file patents for things like xml and the FAT
> filesystem.  

I believe the issue is with VFAT, not FAT.

> Couldn't this be a reason to consider moving the BL line away 
> from the DOS filesystem, 

My understanding is that FAT is safe (because it is too old
to patent).

> or at least making it more portable to a pure Linux environment?

Porting is easy.  Just move the filesystem to its own HD partition
and replace loadlin.exe with LILO.  Even BL1 had an add-on LILO
package. 

Cheers,
Steven