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["David Moberg" <davidjmoberg AT lycos.com>]

sindi keesan wrote:
> 
> On Sat, 25 Jun 2005, Santi Garcia wrote:
> 
> > hello:
> >
> > I have a pc very limited, and this distribucion is very good for my
> > goes me very well, but I would like use emacs but my memory ram is
> > very small to be able to install it with pkg I want to be able to
> > install it in the hd but itself not like to do it if someone can help
> > me.
> 
> Please explain (in both English and Spanish, because some of our 
> list members know Spanish) what you tried to do and what happened.

I think there is a maintainer for the Spanish BL. Maybe he could
help?

> There are two ways to use BL3 from the hard drive - you can 
> download the first version of it that runs in a 'loop' from a DOS 
> partition, and this version can also be installed to an 'ext2' 
> linux partition with the install-to-hd script.  This version boots 
> with loadlin (a DOS command).
> 
> There is a second version which runs from 2 floppy disks.  It can 
> also be installed to ext2 hard drive.  It boots with lilo from 
> floppy disks or from hard drive ext2 partition.

How would you define "partition"? I doubt that Spanish uses the
same word for a subdivision of a disk.

> I have only used the first version, both loop and ext2.  On three 
> of our computers, the loop version will not boot.  We get an error 
> messages partway through boot.  Is this your problem?  If so, try 
> to install to hard drive from the floppy disk version.
> 
> Would someone who has installed to hd from floppy disk BL3 explain 
> exactly how to do this (maybe in Spanish)?

If I recall correctly, either install or install-to-hd work. You
_need_ a partition set up first, and I'm not sure that Santi has
one. It is somewhat tricky, even for native English speakers,
because you may need to resize an existing DOS partition.

> If you have only tried the 2-floppy-disk version, you can download 
> the other version to a DOS partition and you will have 20MB of 
> space to work in, which I think is enough for emacs.

emacs is huge. I would get a real partition if I could. Santi, can
you tell us if you have DOS on your hard drive? Do you have a Linux
partition there? Would you mind if DOS was wiped off of the hard
drive?

> > Sorry for my english  I am Spanish and I do not dominate the english 
> > sorry :(

I do not dominate the Spanish, sorry. :( You might look around for a Spanish
translation of BL.

David

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