This package will install BasicLinux to a partition on your harddrive.
This has several advantages over running BasicLinux in a ramdrive:
  *  it gives you more room to add tools and applications
  *  your alterations to the filesystem are retained when you reset
  *  4meg of memory is no longer lost to a ramdisk
  
Your first step is to prepare a harddrive partition.  If you have a spare
harddrive, I recommend you use that.  Otherwise, a free partition on your 
main drive will do.  If you have neither a spare HD nor a free partition 
(and don't know how to free one), you probably should stick with the ramdrive
version of BasicLinux.
  
You will only need one partition for your BasicLinux filesystem.  It can 
be as small as 10meg, but a bigger partition will enable you to do more.  
If the partition already has a DOS filesystem on it, use the DOS version
of fdisk to delete it.  Be careful.  A tiny mistake with fdisk could wipe   
the wrong partition.

You are now ready to boot BasicLinux and run the Linux version of fdisk.
For this example, we will assume that you have added a small HD to your 
primary IDE interface as slave to your main drive.  
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fdisk /dev/hdb 
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This will start fdisk running for the primary IDE slave.  (note: if your 
HD is on the secondary IDE interface, the name for the master is /dev/hdc 
and the name for the slave is /dev/hdd.)

When fdisk is running, enter p to see the partition table.  If there are
no partitions on the HD, the table will be empty; in which case, all of 
the cylinders (shown on the first line) are available for allocation.
However, if there are other partitions on the HD, you will need to look
for an unused block of cylinders (at the beginning or at the end or between 
the end of one partition and the start of the next).

Enter n to define the new partition.  Choose p for primary and 1 for the
first partition (unless that position is already taken).  Then specify the 
starting and ending cylinder numbers for your new partition.  Enter p to 
check the table and make a note of the partition name (/dev/hdb1 in our 
example).  The partition should be shown as "Linux native".  When you are 
completely happy with the partition table, press w to write the new table 
to disk.  Otherwise, press q to quit without writing.

You are now ready to format the partition.  Be careful.  If you make a
mistake with the partition name, you could wipe the wrong partition.
The following is just an example.  You must substitute the actual name
of the partition (you made a note of this in the paragraph above).
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mke2fs /dev/hdb1
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Your partition is now ready for use.  Just mount it at /hd.  
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mount /dev/hdb1 /hd
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You can now proceed with the installation.  First, make sure bas-hd.tgz 
is in the /tmp directory (do not gunzip it).  Then, execute go

If you do not have enough room for bas-hd.tgz on /tmp, you can overlay 
a floppy disk (mount /dev/fd0 /tmp) or ramdisk (mount /dev/ram2 /tmp).



