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Herman Mansilla wrote:
>
> the problem is about some incompatibility between
> Voodoo3 and the XVesa server

Xvesa works better with old video cards.

> I will use all the 400MB for BasicLinux from the 
> loopback filesystem. 

The default loop file is only 20mb.  It is possible
to make a bigger one, but it is more efficient to
install BL3 to a separate e2fs HD partition (plus 
a separate swap partition).

> Yabasic 258KB but depends on several Libraries like
> ncurses, libICE libX11 etc.

The BL3 version of yabasic does not depend on ncurses
or libICE.  It does depend on libX11 (which is in BL3).

> I will try that, but I think this should be done 
> from the initial ramdisk to be effective.

You are probably right.  Drive C: is mounted by the initrd
(to access the loop file).  It probably is not possible to 
umount/mount it.  

This will not be an issue for people installing BL3 to 
a separate HD partition.

Cheers,
Steven