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Greg Mayman wrote:
>
> That is one reason I want Linux, if I can ever get it working.

It sounds like it was working, until you filled
up the filesystem.  

> > hang around and you'll get all the help you want
> 
> It has been disappointing so far.

Pardon me?  
You are disappointed with the help we have offered?
 
> 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.

Where exactly did you get that advice?  It wasn't here.

I repeat below the advice I gave you on 22 December:
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The AbiWord package is big.  If you are running BL3 from
C:\BASLIN, you only have 20mb of space.  That's barely
enough room for AbiWord.  There's not enough room for
AbiWord if you have other add-on packages too.

Once your filesystem is full, you get all sorts of strange 
error messages.

To see how much space is remaining, do the following:
--
df
--

There may be 300mb on your drive, but the filesystem
in C:\BASLIN is only 20mb.  Normally, BL3 is installed
to its own partition on the hard drive.  You can make 
that partition as large as you want (using fdisk).
Then you format it (using mke2fs), mount it, and execute 
install-to-hd.  Let us know if you need any help with that.

Don't give up.  We can help you sort it out.
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