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  • From: sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>
  • To: baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: [BL] BL3-32 on laptop via serial cable?
  • Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 01:05:19 +0000 (UTC)

First I want to thank Steven again for making BL3 so easy to install and use. Unlike earlier versions, we were able to download the 2.8M file and install directly to loop (where we can add packages and if wanted make the loop larger - but could the instructions be posted at the Bl3 site as a FAQ?), and it was a simple matter to install to ext2 without needing to get additional packages. We can run just about anything we want to by adding the SW81 glibc. Makes for a much smaller installation than BL2. I doubt any other linux is as easy to set up and as efficient.

We transferred bl3-32.zip by splitting it into two parts and copying via floppy disk, then copy part1+part bl3-32.zip. This worked where plip and llpro failed. No ethernet on the laptop. Did not try serial transfer via linux since we did not yet have linux on there.

Would 100MB or 200MB of hard drive be too better for adding:
icewm, links2, mc, mutt, kermit (2MB), lynx (3MB?), glibc6, dosemu, Opera 7, xpdf, xv, and the 15MB needed for compiling and perl?

This will leave 800-900MB free as a large ext2 partition for playing with standard installations that could later be converted to BL2 etc.

24MB RAM - we could also make a swap file in the DOS or ext2 partition.

This is our pentium laptop with 1.2GB hard drive. The 486 with the floppy drive that only talks to itself can be set up similarly with BL3 in up to 170MB ext2 and used for biking around in the snow. The pentium is, I am told, to be used in bed because the house is cold. They both have PCMCIA modems so BL3 will be ideal.

Question: after setting up a plip or serial pppd transfer cable connection, instead of sending the .tgz files to the DOS or ext2 directory, is there some simple way to install the packages over the connection, for instance using mc?



keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org
SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.lonestar.org




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