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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: Tue, 2 Jan 2007 16:37:33 -0600

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




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