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

 So I will try on a fresh BL3.40, in a
> loop or maybe on a 120MB hard drive.
>
> The approach will be to add packages until it works, then delete things
> until it breaks.  Any better ideas?


Trying to do this without adding a third IDE drive or using loop.

Please remind me how to use qemu to run BL3.40 under qemu (inside BL2, 
which is taking up most of this very large drive) using the posted BL3 
image file.  Can I add 10-20MB of X-related packages to it?



First I want to get XKB to work in Slackware 10.2 but X won't even load 
because it cannot write to a file in /tmp, in fact it cannot write to any 
files.

How would we boot Slackware 10.2 to be read-write, and what file in SW10.2 
is equivalent to XF86Config so I can undisable XKB (assuming it is 
disabled by default)?

There is a 3 page .xinitrc for use with some giant window manager which we 
installed by accident then deleted.  Would I want simply 'exec twm' 
instead?  Can I put that in a different .xinitrc2 and point X at it 
instead?

We tried to boot with loadlin using the BL2 batch file pointed at a 
different partition, 'ro' or 'rw' - neither will let us write.
Cannot open file for writing:  read-only file system.
Do we need to edit some file in SW10.2 so it will be read-write on boot?

loadlin bzimagei.102 root=/dev/hdb3 rw