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["Greg Mayman" <gmone AT tpg.com.au>]

I have downloaded BL3.40, hard disk version and installed it.

Starting from a clean boot, I managed to find my way around some of the
things with a little help from my friends.

Eventually, I did a pppsetup, then ppp-on and it connected to my
ISP!

I typed links and started to browse. From the "add-ons for BL3" I
downloaded mc, abiword, links2, yabasic, sylpheed, sc and
xfreecell.

I also downloaded Larry Greenfield's Linux Users' Guide
greenfield96Linux.ps.gz

I then used pkg to install mc and yabasic. And they worked
first time!

But abiword gave a "zcat: unexpected end of file" error.

And sc and xfreecell gave "tar: invalid tar magic" error.

Links2 and sylpheed appeared to install properly but give
"floating point error" when I try to run them.

"gunzip greenfield96Linux.ps.gz" tells me there is no space left
on drive.

That's crap! There is over 300 Mb of free space on the HDD.

Now, after booting, ppp-on will not work.

The error message is
  /usr/sbin/pppd: This system lacks kernel support for PPP. This
  could be because the PPP kernel is not loaded, or because the
  kernel is not configured for PPP. See the README.linux file in
  ppp-2.3.7 distribution.

But by running pppsetup first, then exiting without any changes,
I can then run ppp-on. The system dials in, but now links won't
work.

This is all EXTREMELY disappointing!

Is it true that BasicLinux does work, or is it just another urban
myth?

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