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[Tim Rue <bl-3seas AT threeseas.net>]

Quoting 3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org:

> Tim Rue wrote:
> >
> > Basic Linux only has a 15meg hardfile... not leaving 
> > enough room for AROS...
> 
> It is possible to create a larger file (using mke2fs)
> and transfer the contents of fs.img to the new file
> (using send/receive).  Rename the new file fs.img and
> put it in C:\baslin.  Let me know if you want detailed
> instructions (and how big you want the new fs.img to be).

Yes please. I tried to figure it out on my own w/o success.

say 30meg 

> > The second problem is that Basiclinux doesn't seem to 
> > regonize anything outside of itself as runable (correct 
> > me if I'm wrong here).
> 
> I'm pretty sure that's wrong.  I've used BL3 to run 
> executables residing on a DOS partition.

You are probably right, as I found I can untar from outside BL into BL, which
could solve the filename length problem.

> > to run not only basiclinux but AROS (if it will run) 
> 
> If AROS is a Linux binary, it probably uses the current
> Linux library (glibc2).  BL3 uses an older/smaller library
> (libc5).  It may be possible to add the glibc2 library to
> BL3 by installing a package from Slackware, but AFAIK nobody 
> has tried that.

As best I can determine, AROS does use glibc and not libc5... so I don't know 
if
I'll get it going, but have seen another message to the list regarding
installing some glibc (6?) with success..

I have been looking at other small linuxes and it seems ulinux and tiny linux
... perhaps damn small linux are the remains of what I might get to run on 
this
old limited resource laptop.

what I'd like to do is to be able to run eric3 (python IDE - requires some 
newer
and perhaps "unstable" debs). Though I don't know if this is possible in 8 
megs
of ram. But it would be nice to be able to do some python coding on it.

any feedback on these issues woudl be helpful

Thanks 

Tim Rue