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BL3.50 fdisk works correctly.  It makes and displays hdb4 linux extended 
(and therefore you  can delete it) and mke2fs works afterwards without 
rebooting, both unlike BL2 cfdisk (does not display ext2 partition, need 
to reboot to mke2fs) or busybox 1.3.2 fdisk (makes a big mess).

A second computer treats hdb4 as D: when hda has four DOS primary 
partitions.  Telling BIOS there is no slave drive did not fix the problem, 
I had to unplug it.  The solution is to make a minimal and empty D:.  I no 
longer use most of the DOS programs anyway.

I now have BL3.50 working on a computer with 'new' keyboard, on a scsi 
drive with a 2.4.31 kernel.  To exit jwm without a mouse type Alt-F1 for 
menu, arrow down and click on rxvt, Alt-Tab to switch focus to the new 
window with rxvt (this is annoying and is not needed in icewm), type 
reboot.  Ctrl-Alt-Del did not work from X.  I can leave one vt dedicated 
to X (make a fourth one in inittab if needed).

Next project is to connect two laptops to a low-power (cool) dual-head 
system, via nullmodem cable.  One could even be the 386 with 1MB RAM using 
DOS kermit to telnet to linux.  Highs of 92-97F all week here.

Anyone know how many watts are generated by a 386 and a PI laptop, and how 
many by a PIII and a TTL monitor?

Sindi

keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org
SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.lonestar.org