Kenneth Alan Boyd Ramsay wrote:
>
> I gather that there would be an option to pick the
> size of the ramdisk, based on equipment,

Nope.  Your only options will be BasicLinux 1.7
(8mb RAM) and the new BasicLinux 2.x (12mb RAM).

> How about executing loadlin.exe using a bootable floppy?
> Perhaps using an autoexec.bat file.

That's what the current FD option does.

> Distribute the files appropriately, and include a pause
> or two to swap floppies, and you could probably fit
> everything on even 360 K floppies.

I do not like the idea of a multi-floppy distribution.
Unzip and go is *much* nicer.  If necessary, I will
do a one-floppy option for winXT.

> If you use less than 1.2 M on each floppy image, it
> could be written on either 1.2 or 1.44 M floppies,
> which might be handy.

The original make_fd.bat in BasicLinux worked for both 1.2mb
and 1.44mb floppies.  AFAIK nobody ever used it with 1.2mb
floppies, so that option was removed (to make make_fd.bat
easier to use with win9x).

However, all of this is speculative.  It will take a lot
of work to produce BL2.  At the moment I'm not sure it's
worth the trouble.

Cheers,
Steven

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