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Message from Steven
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> There is nothing on my HD,  I would like to copy BL3.5 
> directly to the HD. How do I do this?

First, you need to partition the HD.  I suggest you make
two partitions:  a linux partition and a swap partition.
You might also like to leave some HD space unpartitioned
in case you want to create a third (or fourth) partition
in the future.

The tool you use to partition the HD is fdisk:
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fdisk /dev/hda
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press n to create a new partition (primary, not extended)
press t to change the partition type (82 for swap).

I suggest you make the first partition (/dev/hda1) swap
and the second partition (/dev/hda2) Linux.

The second step is to format the Linux partition.  
The tool for this is mke2fs:
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mke2fs /dev/hda2
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That assumes that /dev/hda2 is your Linux partition.

The third step is to mount your Linux partition at /hd:
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mount /dev/hda2  /hd
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The fourth step is to install BL3 to your Linux partition:
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install-to-hd
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Cheers,
Steven