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Message from Steven
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> I followed the HD install instructions in README.TXT, 
> which worked fine.  From my /baslin directory in DOS, 
> I can now execute boot.bat or hd.bat successfully.  
> When I run boot.bat, BL boots up using 4.5MB of my 
> 32MB total RAM.  Nice.  But when I run hd.bat, 
> BL boots up using 21MB.  That seems weird.  

Where do you get the 4.5mb and 21mb figures?
They look like HD usage (not RAM usage).

> I'm not using swap.img in /baslin.  There IS 
> a linux swap partition on the hard drive, but 
> I've not activated it.  

I suggest you activate it.  For example, if your
swap partition is /dev/hda3 
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swapon /dev/hda3
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To make this automatic, put it in /etc/rc

Cheers,
Steven