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James Miller wrote:
>
> I am happy to report that my pcmcia network card works 
> just fine, 

I got a no-name PCMCIA network card a couple of days ago,
popped it into my laptop, booted BL3 and (beep,beep) it
came up just fine.  This is *much* easier than installing
a new NIC on a desktop.  It appears that just about every
PCMCIA network card (except Xircom and 3Com) works with
the pcnet driver in BL3.

> 1) I could turn the 650MB free space into an extended DOS 
> partition and locate various fs.img's there; 
>
> 2) I could expand my 100MB partition to take up the whole
> drive and just put any fs.img's on c; 
>
> 3) I could make 2 (or more) additional partitions in the 
> existing free space for ext2fs HD install(s) of BL3.  

I'd go with four (primary) partitions:
(1) DOS (bootable)    around 300mb 
(2) Linux swap        twice RAM
(3) Linux native      around 350mb
(4) Linux native       50mb

That gives you room for several fs.img files on DOS and 
a BL3 partition big enough to take large add-ons.  Plus 
a small Linux partition for B1/B2 or for quick-and-dirty 
BL3 experiments.

Cheers,
Steven