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I've got the system booting from the hd - thanks for the help.

I can also start up the PCMCIA ethernet card and
if I set ifconfig eth0 then I can ping my router and the
other machines in my home. My router serves DHCP
addresses to the machines in my house. How do I 
set up BasicLinux to get a DHCP address from my
router?

Ted

On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 1:53 PM, <baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org> wrote:

Message from Steven
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Ted wrote:
>
> (1) a walk-through/tutorial on the installation to hard disk.

Assuming you have unallocated space on your HD,
use fdisk (in BL3) to create a Linux partition.
You probably also should create a swap partition.
If you tell us how much RAM you have, we will be
able to tell you whether you need a swap partition
and how big it should be.  Also, tell us if you do
not have unallocated HD space -- we can tell you
how to get some.

Once you have a Linux partition, use mke2fs to
format the partition.  Then mount the parition
on /hd.  For example, if your Linux partition
is /dev/hda2
--------------------
mke2fs /dev/hda2
mount /dev/hda2  /hd
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Then execute:  install-to-hd

> (2) Some advice on configuring the network.
>     I'm plugging into my linksys router which is
>     serving DNS to my other machines.

Are you using a PCMCIA network card?  Or is networking
build into you laptop?  If it is PCMCIA, is the card
cardbus?

> I really like BasicLinux so far. It's making my old
> laptop usable again.

If you give us some details on your laptop and how it
is currently configured, we will be able to provide
more specific advice.

Cheers,
Steven

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