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Message from Giuseppe
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Thank you very much,

> So you could repartition as follows:
>
> hda1 - swap - 32MB
> hda2 - BL3 -  100MB
> hda3 - BL2 - 200MB (or as much as you can spare)
>

I'll repartition hd only with primary partitions as you suggested

>
> The BL website has links to Slackware mirrors and you can find Slackware
> packages there.
>

I think (but maybe I am wrong)  there were instructions on how to install
BL-2 (from DOS or fd) to hd on the BL web site and also a list of packages
from Slackware 7.1 to do so but now I can not find. I got  BAS-HD.tgz but I
think it works for BL-1.8. How can I do to install BL-2 to hd?

Thanks again.

Giuseppe

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From: <baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org>
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Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2008 1:14 AM
Subject: Re: [BL] BL2 install


> On Tue, 12 Feb 2008, baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org wrote:
>
> > Salve,
> > I have a pentium S with 1,2 Gb HD and 16 Mb Ram.
>
> I found this at cpu-museum.de.  They run from 75 to 200MHz.
> I first installed BL on a 75MHz 486 (with Pentium-type cpu) and 16MB RAM.
>
> >
> > I partitioned the hd this way:
> >
> > hda1 linux swap 128 Mb
>
> I think the rule is to make the swap partition twice your RAM, in this
> case 32MB.
>
> > hda5 linux           142 Mb
> > hda6 linux            150 Mb
> > hda7 linux            780 Mb
>
> I have had various problems putting linux onto extended partitions.
> Since you want only four partitions you can make four primary partitions.
> You can also make a swap file instead of a swap partition if you need
> another partition (32MB swap file in each linux partition).
>
> See the BL archives for how to make a swap file.  BL site, first link at
> the bottom of the page to BasicLinux support, then the last link on that
> page is a search form to search previous discussions about BL for
> information about swap files, lilo, etc.
>
> https://lists.ibiblio.org/sympa/arc/baslinux/2006-july/011038.html
>
> My instructions how to put lilo on a boot floppy to boot to dos, bl3 or
> bl2.  Just change boot=/dev/fd0 to boot=/dev/hda)
>
> Read the rest of this thread for any corrections to what I posted.
>
> > I installed BL-3 from fd on hda5 and I put LILO in MBR changing
lilo.conf
> >
> > I would like to install BL-2 on hda6 using fd version of BL-2. Is it
> > possible to install BL-2  from fd and not to use a DOS partition? Is it
> > possible to use LILO in MBR to boot BL-3 and BL-2?
>
> I have used lilo to select between DOS, BL2 and BL3.
>
> I put everything I could think of except kernel source code and compiler
> into BL3 and it still fit into 60MB.  100MB should be adequate.  I made
> BL2 larger because there is more precompiled software available and I also
> used to to compile kernels and other source code (much of this won't
> compile in BL3).  So you could repartition as follows:
>
> hda1 - swap - 32MB
> hda2 - BL3 -  100MB
> hda3 - BL2 - 200MB (or as much as you can spare)
>
> > I know there is package from Slack 7.1 but I could not find on BL web
site.
> > Is it still available and what is the install procedure?
>
> The BL website has links to Slackware mirrors and you can find Slackware
> packages there.
>
> >
> > Thank you very much for any help.
> > Giuseppe
> >
> >
> >
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