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[Sindi Keesan <keesan AT iamjlamb.com>]

On Wed, 23 Jun 2004, Will Hatch wrote:

> I guess I have to download abiword to another computer, burn it to a cd,
> and then try to install it to my BL3 machine from the cd.  Or, I could
> try to hitch my BL3 machine up to the internet and download it directly
> (no clue how to do this).

Does your BL3 machine have an internal modem?  If not, do you have an 
external modem that you can plug into a serial port?  BL3 comes with 
internet software which is easy to set up and use.  Run pppsetup and ask 
if you have questions.

If you don't have a modem that you can use in that machine, you can use 
various transfer cables (serial - nullmodem cable, parallel, or network).

If you don't have cables, you can remove the hard drive from the machine 
with the modem (assuming you can't simply move the modem from it, for 
instance if it is a winmodem) and install it in the BL3 computer making 
the first drive master and the second slave (with jumpers) and copy files 
that way (between DOS partitions) using the DOS copy command.  Or use a 
third small drive as a go-between, set to slave.  In most new drives 
master and single are now set the same - the drive will probably be 
labelled as to how to set jumpers.  

> 
> Steven, you mentioned that making a server and adding thin clients to it
> is a good way to use old pcs.  I'm actually beefing up the memory on our
> best computer to be a server.  I have the K12LTSP (based on Fedora Core
> 1), and I'm going to attempt to make a server/thin client network.  
> Experimenting with BL3 I figure is good practice, but I like it enough
> that I want to keep playing with it.  Again, adding a word-compatible
> word processor and internet browsing are the only features my students
> need.  Thanks for all the help! -Will

> > 
> > From: 3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org
> > Date: 2004/06/22 Tue PM 04:12:15 EDT
> > To: baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org
> > Subject: Re: [BL] word processing
> > 
> > Will Hatch wrote:
> > >
> > > how do I install abiword?  
> > 
> > abiword.tgz is a package.  In BL1 and BL3 packages are
> > installed with the pkg command:
> > ---------------
> > pkg abiword.tgz
> > ---------------
> > In BL2 (which uses the Slackware pkgtool), packages are
> > installed with the installpkg command:
> > ----------------------
> > installpkg abiword.tgz
> > ----------------------
> > 
> > > I downloaded the file.  do I have to use rawrite 
> > > to write it to a floppy?  
> > 
> > abiword.tgz is 7mb in size.  Fitting it on a floppy 
> > will not be easy.  :-)
> > 
> > BTW, abiword.tgz doubles in size when it is installed.
> > It won't fit in the default fs.img for BL3.  
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > Steven
> > 
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