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Message from Steven
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Manularan wrote:
>
> I have an old 486 COMPAQ CONTURA laptop with a 
> 121 MB HD, 8 MB RAM, no CD drive, and no NIC card. 
> I downloaded BL and copied the two floppies. 

The floppies will not work on your system (you do
not have enough RAM).  However, the DOS version of
BL3 will work well on that system.  I suggest you
do the following.

(1) Use DOS fdisk (from a DOS boot floppy) to
reformat the harddrive.  Create a 35mb bootable
DOS partition.  Leave the remainder of the HD
unallocated.

(2) From the DOS bootdisk do:  FORMAT C:/u/s

(3) Create C:\DOS directory and copy the executables
from the floppy to C:\DOS

(4) Remove floppy and reboot computer.

(5) Use floppies (or laplink cable) to copy pkunzip
(and any other DOS utilities you need) to the HD.

(6) Create C:\BASLIN directory and use floppies 
(or laplink cable) to copy BL3-50.zip to C:\BASLIN

(7) Unzip BL3-50.zip and execute boot.

(8) Use BL3 fdisk to create a 15mb partition (/dev/hda2).
Make it a primary partition.  Make it type "Linux swap".

(9) Use BL3 fdisk to create a partition (/dev/hda3) that
fills the remainder of the HD space.  Make it a primary 
partition.  Make it type "Linux".

(10) Format the swap partition by doing:  mkswap /dev/hda2

(11) Format the Linux partition:  mke2fs -m0 -i8192 /dev/hda3

(12) Mount the Linux partition:  mount /dev/hda3 /hd

(13) Execute:  install-to-hd