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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

On Tue, 8 Nov 2005 3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org wrote:

> sindi keesan wrote:
> > This is a five year old computer.  Are there any plans
> > to keep BL updated to support anything that new
>
> No.  Every new feature (like USB) makes it bigger.
> BasicLinux is meant to be basic, not fully-featured.
> I am happy for things like USB to be optional modules
> or add-ons.

Would you consider compiling a SW81 or SW91 kernel which is smaller than 
bare.i, to use where you are stuck with USB (such as when helping a 
friend, or using a camera) and don't want to put on a second OS besides 
BL?  I could attempt it but it took me a couple of months to even add scsi 
and sound to the BL2 kernel and SW81 has loads more features to figure out 
so I can decide not to use them.

I cannot boot from BL floppy disk on this blasted USB-only computer 
because the keyboard won't work if I do.  It gets as far as half a prompt 
(no C:\) in DOS.  Is it possible to make some sort of SW81 USB kernel that 
will still fit on BL2 or BL3 boot floppy disks?

We might put SW91 on the rest of the 120GB hard drive (Win98 fdisk only 
recognizes 48GB of it, without flashing the BIOS which we would rather not 
risk doing wrong).  Maybe it will even work with a USB modem.  I would 
rather be able to build onto BL2 with a later kernel though.

> Cheers,
> Steven
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