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[James Miller <jamtat AT mailsnare.net>]

On Mon, Dec 25, 2006 at 04:54:33PM +1030, Greg Mayman wrote:
> 
> It has been disappointing so far.
> 
> Advice such as "Don't load too much, or if you do, then destroy
> everything you have loaded and start again" is very off-putting.
> 
> There has to be a better way to use it.

Nobody on this list gave you that advice. You're mixing advice from various 
sources. That's 
the first thing you should stop doing if you want to use BL. Here's the basic 
thing you need 
to understand about BL: the version you got is probably the testing version. 
It's the one 
people who use DOS or some earlier version of Windows can try out without 
disrupting what's 
already on their machine. It consists of a large file that contains and runs 
BL. But that 
file only gives you 20 megabytes to work in. A larger file can be created if 
one wants to 
keep his existing DOS/Win installation and still run BL alongside it, but 
even then only 
about 50 megabytes would be the maximum size. But that all refers to the 
testing system. 
Once one has reached the limits of the testing system, the next step is to 
install BL to a 
dedicated hard drive or partition on a hard drive. Once you do that, the 
space limits of the 
testing system no longer hold: BL can be installed onto drives/partitions of 
up to 128 
gigabytes. You are very unlikely to run out of space using BL on a 
drive/partition of that 
size.

If you want a Linux that does not keep you from doing whatever you please on 
your machine, 
then BL will be a good candidate. You won't run into the sort of permissions 
problems you 
have with other Linux distributions since you run as the root user by default 
in BL. This 
makes it operate alot like DOS, but it does carry some security risks.

James