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[James Miller <jamtat AT mailsnare.net>]

On Wed, Jan 03, 2007 at 02:23:51AM +1030, Greg Mayman wrote:
> On Mon, 1 Jan 2007 19:03:26 -0600, James Miller wrote:
> 
> > It sounds to me that, from this description of your needs, you'd probably 
> > be 
> > best served by
> > using BL with an expanded loop file system. In other words, in place of 
> > the 20 
> > MB loop file
> 
> I'll probably create a partition for BL as soon as I am a bit more
> familiar with it.

If you are confident in your partitioning skills and want to get maximum 
space for BL, that 
may be the way to go. But this highlights another advantage to the loop-file 
method (which 
I've been referring to as the "testing system"): on a DOS/Win system you can 
run Linux using 
the loop file without having to disprupt your partitioning scheme or taking 
associated risks 
of corrupting or destroying existing data. Anyway, the choice of which to use 
is yours. Btw, 
how are you going to get more familiar with BL without using it? If you're 
looking for a 
more capable testing system, I suppose you saw Ron's post about an expanded 
loop file he had 
created and made available for download. Using that would be a good way to 
familiarize 
yourself better with BL, and that might sufficiently address the space 
problems you were 
having with the stock testing system (i.e., the 20 MB loop file).

James