Thomas Tabler wrote: > > It's not that I don't want a dos partition on my machine, but > the issue of what kind and how BIG.
If you are using loadlin.exe to boot BasicLinux, a 1mb DOS partition is sufficient (although I would normally recommend 10-20mb). If you are using LILO to boot BasicLinux, no DOS partition is required. > But if I use BasicLinux rather than Red Hat or Windows, then > I would want to know if it will support a chat client I have a copy of tinyirc which appears to work with BasicLinux. However, I have no experience with irc so I don't know if it is doing anything useful. I'm happy to send a copy to anybody who wants to try it with BasicLinux (it's only 18kb). If it works, tell me and I'll add it to the add-ons. > and printer support. BasicLinux comes with a primitive wordprocessor that prints (nothing fancy, just plain text). For comprehensive printer support you can install a package from Slackware 3.5 (using the pkg command in BasicLinux). Cheers, Steven ______________________________ http://www.volny.cz/basiclinux To unsubscribe from SURVPC send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe SURVPC in the body of the message. Also, trim this footer from any quoted replies. More info can be found at; http://www.softcon.com/archives/SURVPC.html
