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On Sat, Dec 18, 2004 at 07:40:46PM +0000, sindi keesan wrote:
> >>gzip /tmp/ramdisk   to produce /tmp/ramdisk.gz
> >
> >Hi Sindi, Steven,
> >
> >is it REALLY that simple? I am still working with a quite complicated
> >routine (included in the BL FAQ) to re-create baslinux.gz for BL2 and
> >experience a lot of mysterious problems with it.
> >
> >Christof
> 
> SOmeone else on the list came up with the above method, which works easily 
> for me.  Steven's method was too complicated to understand.
> 
> You need to do this on a computer with 12MB or more RAM so that you will 
> have a second ramdisk with /tmp on it.  With BL3 I did not have a second 
> 4MB RAMdisk and had to come up with another method.

I tried 'cat /dev/ram0 >/tmp/ramdisk' and got an error. The disk seemed to
be full even though there were 16 MB RAM on that computer. 

Then I mounted the DOS partition and tried 'cat /dev/ram0 >/hd/ramdisk'
and it worked! Now I have my modified BL2 RAM version do all the mail 
uploads and downloads for my DOS mail client. I problably will create 
even other other specialized BL2 RAM versions if it is that simple. 

Christof