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James Miller wrote:
> 
> Seemed like an appropriate response to this post 
> because by using it, it seems the author might be 
> able to skip the DOS partition and devote his whole 
> HD to BL1 and swap.  

Installing BL1 with 4mb only works from a DOS partition.
There is no floppy/ramdisk method (because there is too
little RAM for a ramdisk).  That is why there are special
installation instructions for 4mb RAM.  

Once the installation is complete (using /dev/hda1 for
DOS), it is possible to install the BL1 lilo package
and use fdisk/mkswap to reconfigure /dev/hda1 as swap.
That will leave you with just two partitions:
------------------------
/dev/hda1   Linux swap
/dev/hda2   Linux native
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Cheers,
Steven