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Hi Jose!

There are 2 kinds of BL 3.x - 
1. DOS version requiring 3 mb RAM
2. Floppy version requiring 12MB RAM

To put BL 3.40 on your laptop (386/5MB RAM/200MB HDD),
you need to download DOS version (bl3-40.zip) from:
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/baslinux/bl3-40.zip

SHORT: bl3-40.zip is 2.9MB file. 
You may:

1. split it to fit on 1.4mb floppies
You can do it under Linux, or DOS/Windows.
Good splitter for DOS is hjsplit available at:
http://www.freebyte.com/hjsplit/#classic

DOS version (110kb) is here: (freeware)
http://www.freebyte.com/download/hjspl16.zip

2. you may transfer it through serial cable.
Good tool for DOS is zipft 
(I have found only 2.12 version which is
shareware, but version 2.21 is freeware)

STEPS TO INSTALL BL 3.40 ON YOUR LAPTOP:
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(I suppose you haven't craeted partitions on it,
and you haven't put DOS on it yet).

I use FreeDOS ODIN v.0.7
http://wiki.fdos.org/Distribution/Beta9SR2readme

usually: http://odin.fdos.org/odin2005/odin1440.img

0. I suspect you splitted bl3-40.zip to 2 files
to fit on 1.44mb - let's call splitted files:
part1, part2.

1. Put FreeDOS ODIN diskette in floppy drive
and boot your laptop.

2. Choose option "1" for 8086 systems.

3. When you get a:\ prompt, type fdisk and press enter.

4. In fdisk create 1 primary partition with size: maximum

5. quit fdisk and reboot

6. again choose "1" option (8086), and after a:\
run: format c:

7. Run "sys c:"

8. copy /b a:\unzip.exe c:\unzip.exe

9. Take out ODIN bootdisk, and reboot

10. C:

11. mkdir c:\baslin

12. cd c:\baslin

13. copy splitted bl3-40.zip to c:\baslin

copy /b a:\part1 c:\baslin\part1
copy /b a:\part2 c:\baslin\part2

14. join them together:
c:
cd c:\baslin
copy /b part1+part2 bl3-40.zip

15. delete parts:
del part1
del part2

16. c:\unzip bl3-40.zip

17. del bl3-40.zip

18. c:\unzip swap.zip

19. boot.bat

BasicLinux 3.40 should run.


Hope i haven't made too much mistakes in writting
from my brain memory :)


Chris

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