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[Mr Christopher Rose <mrchrisrose AT yahoo.com>]

As somebody that has installed basiclinux 3 onto hda
from the floppy, I can tell you that it is quite
simple, so simple I actually got confused. The kicker
is to remember that the fdisk command DOES work in
BL3. Indeed, several versions of Linux use either
fdisk or sometimes even cfdisk. I used cfdisk from the
CD when I installed my Red Hat Linux 9.0 system. The
thing to watch out for is how large you want your
primary BL3 partition to be in relation to your swap
drive. I use BL3 on a Toshiba WinBook XP with a 500MB
hard drive. I configured it for 100MB of swap space,
as I figured that 400MB should be more than enough for
a primary partition. Of course you should also
consider what you are using basic linux for. If you
want to run an application heavy system, then you
might need more disk space for your primary partition.
I have set my system up for basic word and spreadsheet
applications and I am trying to get the so-called
internal modem to work so that I might also do some
low speed internet work (mostly e-mail). Beyond that,
I can use my Red Hat machine.

Pax,

Christopher


--- dick allen <dick AT bea4allen.waitrose.com> wrote:

> Hi
> 
> I am a newby to Linux, but started with SUSE on my
> main PC (1GHz 380MB 80GB) 
> with dual boot and Win 98 (hardly used now).     Now
> interested in a simpler 
> kernal etc (to learn Linux) on old PC (which I can
> crash etc without worry) 
> (networked to above) and have got BL3 on floppy
> working ok.   Old machine is 
> 133Mhz 32Mb and hda of 4GB and hdb of 500MB.   
> 
> Trying to install BL3 on hdb, but only just realised
> the <install> command as 
> described in the readme file  is a Dos command.  
> Suppose I could remove 
> basic SUSE insall on hda and install WIn 98, but
> there must be a way to 
> install from Linux.
> 
> Suggestions welcomed
> 
> Thanks
> Dick
> 
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