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Sindi Keesan wrote:
> 
> I was thinking of booting from DOS boot disk with zimage 
> as a way for Denton to get at his BL1 installation 

I doubt that he has a functional BL1 installation on HD.

> since he did not set up with a DOS partition 

The only way of installing BL1 with 4mb is via a DOS 
partition.

> Will he be able to boot this way in 4MB RAM?  

He can boot the kernel this way, but the kernel needs
a root filesystem to run on.  He doesn't have enough
RAM to run the root filesystem in a ramdisk.

> Or maybe it would be easier if he just booted in DOS, 
> deleted his linux partitions with DOS fdisk from the 
> boot floppy, and started over again 

Yes, I suggest he start over again.

> with 1MB DOS partition, 

It takes a bigger DOS partition to install BL1 with 4mb 
RAM.  I don't remember the exact number (it's in the BL1
instructions for 4mb RAM).  Perhaps he should start with 
an 8mb DOS partition and later convert it to swap?

> I forget why he chose BL1.

As I said before, BL3 is easier to install with 4mb RAM.

Cheers,
Steven