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>From Steven
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I just bought a second-hand laptop:  P120, 48mb RAM.
It came with an extensive Windows 95 installation
(Word, PowerPoint, Excel, etc.).  Normally, the 
first thing I do is wipe the HD and install BL3; 
however, on this occasion, there was plenty of room
on the HD so I decided to keep the Windows stuff
(as least for now).  

Here's what I did:

(1)  Since the laptop had no floppy drive, I used
     a CDrom, to load a small Linux into a ramdrive.

(2)  I used Linux editor to edit C:\MSDOS.SYS
     (BootGUI=0) and then created a new directory 
     (C:\BASLIN).

(3)  On a BL3 laptop, I copied the DOS version of BL3 
     and fips.exe onto PCMCIA CF card.  Then I inserted 
     the CF card into the new laptop and used the ramdisk
     Linux to copy them into C:\BASLIN.

(4)  I then rebooted the laptop (because of BootGUI=0
     it came up in DOS).  Then I executed WIN to start
     Windows 95.  Under Programs>Accessories>SystemTools
     I executed ScanDisk.  Then I used DiskDefragmenter
     to do a FULL DEFRAGMENTATION (this is very important!).
     At the conclusion of the defrag, I did scandisk a
     second time.

(5)  I then rebooted the laptop and went (in DOS) to the 
     BASLIN directory.  There I executed fips and created
     some space at the end of the HD.  

(6)  I then rebooted the laptop and went (in DOS) to the 
     BASLIN directory.  There I executed boot and used
     fdisk (in BL3) to put a swap partition and a Linux
     partition in the space created by fips.

(7)  I then used mke2fs (in BL3) to put a filesystem on 
     the linux partition and mounted it at /hd

(8)  I then executed install-to-hd to put BL3 on the new
     filesystem.


Cheers,
Steven