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Message from Steven
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> I have a Xircom CreditcCard PS-CE2-10 ethernet adapter, 

That could be a problem.  IIRC the old Xircom 
cards were the least Linux-friendly of all the
PCMCIA ethernet cards.  I avoid Xircom like the 
plague.

> and I'm having trouble finding drivers for it.  

We do have a Xircom module (xirc2ps_cs.o) for BL3,
but I don't know of anyone who's actually got it 
to work.  Maybe it will work for you?  

http://www.basiclinux.com.ru/add-ons/2_2_26/modules/pcmcia

> is there any partition manager that I can use to 
> make an ext2 partition while the hard drive is 
> still mounted?  

First of all, you don't mount a harddrive, you mount
a partition.  Although many harddrives have only one
partition, you can put multiple partitions on a single 
harddrive.  In fact with Linux, it is usual to have
more than one partition.

> I run BL3 off of MS-DOS, 

Check whether your MS-DOS partition occupies the 
entire harddrive.  Boot BL3 and execute this:
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fdisk -l
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Look at the numbers carefully to determine whether
all the available space has been allocated to your
MS-DOS (FAT) partition.

> and so I can't just wipe the whole hdd to make 
> the partition, but I can't think of any other way.

If all the harddrive space has already been allocated,
you can shrink the existing partition (using FIPS) to
free up space for a new partition.

Cheers,
Steven