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Message from Steven
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> I partitioned the IBM Thinkpad 560's hard drive 
> into two parts, hda1 and hda2, both ext2 

Did you use BL3 to create those ext2 filesystems?

> Running BasicLinux from the floppies, I can't 
> mount either partition

BL3 uses an older version of ext2 (before the 
sparse-super option was introduced).  Most newer
distributions select sparse-super by default 
when they do mke2fs.  These sparse-super ext2 
filesystems are not readable by BL3.

To summarize:

Any distribution can access an ext2 filesystem
created by BL3.

BL3 is unable to access ext2 filesystems created
with the sparse-super option.  It is also unable
to access ext3 filesystems.

To create BL3-accessible filesystems from non-BL3
systems, use the "-O none" parameter for mke2fs.
 
Cheers,
Steven