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  • From: "Greg Mayman" <gmone AT tpg.com.au>
  • To: baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [BL] Help for a newbie
  • Date: Wed, 03 Jan 2007 09:08:46 +1030

On Tue, 2 Jan 2007 16:37:33 -0600, James Miller wrote:

> 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,

Yes, those were EXACTLY my thoughts too.

And with the expanded 50m loop version that I have just
downloaded from Ron Clarke's site, I will have more room to
play around.

> how are you going to get more familiar with BL without using it?

Well, naturally I can't. I have the BL1 FAQ file plus anther file
of 30+ common commands, that I can read through and try.


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