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Message from Steven
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Asahel wrote:
>
> I have 32 mb ram and have been looking 
> unsuccessfully for the instructions for
> installing to a Linux hard drive partition. 
> Could someone please give me a pointer to 
> that information?

See readme.txt:

Installing BasicLinux to an ext2 partition  (optional)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>From inside BL3, use fdisk and mke2fs to create 
a Linux partition on your harddisk.  Mount that 
partition at /hd and execute install-to-hd.

> The machine is an IBM Aptiva with 200 mHz Pentium 
> processor and 3 gigabyte IDE hard drive.  A 2 gb 
> first primary partition is booting Windows 98, and 
> a 1 gb second primary partition /dev/hda2 is set 
> to the Linux ext2 file system awaiting BL3.50. 

mke2fs /dev/hda2
mount  /dev/hda2  /hd
install-to-hd

Note:  I recommend you use fdisk to create 
       a 64mb swap partition (/dev/hda3).

> I intend to dual boot.

With lilo?  Or loadlin?  Or something else?

Cheers,
Steven