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  • From: James Miller <jamtat AT mailsnare.net>
  • To: baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [BL] Help for a newbie
  • Date: Mon, 25 Dec 2006 09:23:33 -0600

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




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