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Well i have had some success.  I used the E500 Compaq which has a
floppy drive and created a basic dos system using the Win98 boot disk.
 Created a 100 MB dos partition and a 200 MB Basic Linux ext2
partition.  Unzipped the BL3-50 file in Puppy Linux and copied the
files to the baslin directory on the dos partition and it all worked.

I suppose the next thing is to get the modem going.  i am on dial up
at present because I am about to go travelling.  I got as far as
putting in user name, password, isp phone number etc but don't know
which port the modem uses.  All I know is the phone line plugs into
the RJ?? thingie on the side.

Oh and another thing.  Menu entries that are like ^MN.  How do they
work?  Do I type all three characters or does the ^ symbol mean
something?

Thanks
Kind Regards
Russell


On 6/12/08, baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org <baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org> wrote:
> >> I tried the dos version but it didn't work
>  >
>  > It didn't boot at all?
>
>
> I have had some computers (Gateway in particular) which do NOT work with
>  loop linux at all.  Loadlin does work (to ext2 installation).
>
>
>  > If you get a loadlin error when you execute boot,
>  > then you need to bring your system up in DOS
>  > without going to Windows.  You can do this by
>  > pressing a "magic" key when Windows starts to
>  > boot.  I'm not sure what the magic key is for
>  > Windows 98.  It could be F4 or F5 or F8 or SHIFT
>  > or CTRL.  I'm not sure.  Anybody got Windows 98
>  > and can tell us?
>
>
> F8  - choose command prompt only
>
>  Sindi
>
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