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I have just brought an elderly thinpad out of retirement and installed 
BasicLinux using  bare.i, zimage.4dx and lilo.  I have a text based system
running and have installed mc, icewm and pkgtool

icewm returns an error message "Can't open display: <none> X must be 
running...."

startx returns an error "X connection to :0.0 broken (explicit kill or server 
shut down)

minicom freezes when attempting to set port to ttyS0 - I think this is a 
thinkpad oddity where COM1 is disabled until DOS or Windows enables it. 

ps displays 3 init processes plus [kflushd], [kupdate], [kswapd], 
[keventd], -sh and ash.

my long term aim is to install a pcmcia to usb card and share a usb card 
reader with my desktop - much better than breaking big files into 1440kb 
segments for an unreliable floppy drive.

Is there an installation guide / reference manual for Basic Linux?  Until I 
get a graphical interface working I am a bit stuck.