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[Sindi Keesan <keesan AT iamjlamb.com>]

On Wed, 12 May 2004, Paulo Orvalho wrote:

> BasicLinux 2.10 with the Xvesa setup of BasicLinux 3.20
> 
> I tried it on 3 or 4 different computers and i get the same result....

Steven can explain it to you better, but I think you are not supposed to
mix programs from these two versions of linux because they use different
basic libraries.  Slackware through version 4 used libc5 and later
versions used libc6 also known as glibc.  You can probably use the
programs from Slackware 7 in later versions of Slackware, or from
Slackware 3 with Slackware 4, but you cannot mix versions with different
libc numbers.

BL2 is based on Slackware 7, BL3 on Slackware 3 with a kernel 2.2.16 
(similar to that in BL2) that Steven compiled to be very small.  You can 
use Slackware 3 or 4 programs with BL3.

Look for an Xvesa.tgz (xvesa.tgz) at delilinux that was compiled for
Slackware 7.1 and substitute that for the one from BL3, for use in BL2.

Also you cannot use Xvesa after booting with MS-DOS 6.22.  Try DR-DOS or 
the DOS from Win9x.   Or hit F5 while booting MS-DOS to bypass the 
config.sys files.  himem.sys interferes with Xvesa.

> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "David Lane" <Jaypooh3 AT hotmail.com>
> 
> 
> > Hardware/version of Basic Linux please,
> > 
> > David Lane

David, you certainly asked a leading question!