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Hello Wayne - 

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WC>> BTW when you went from Basic Linux ramdrive had you read
WC>> documentation on how to do so? I never found that
WC>> documentation. 

CA>> I never created a Linux partition. 

WC> Now that's a dirty darn shame, it's not hard to do at all
WC> in fact since I didn't reinstall everything from tape I may
WC> very well defrag and add a 4th Linux native partition. The
WC> thing I found freaky was the RAMdrive version retained the
WC> telnet module after I installed it and shutdown and
WC> reloaded it 

I totally scrambled a floppy while trying to fix the PPP login
because I forgot to unmount it. Scared me off that it could've
been my hard drive instead. 

CA>> However the instructions you are looking for are a
CA>> separate archive linked from Steven's webpages (possibly
CA>> mine too) that is something like 720k in size? 

WC> Yeah that's in the Basic Linux hard drive zipped module. 

WC> There's also a text file with the unzip that I hadn't read
WC>  This too I discovered after crash recovery. 

I'm told the instructions are quite good and all goes well. :-) 

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CA>> I'm waiting for another machine here before making that
CA>> move. I really don't want to multi-boot. I don't trust
CA>> myself to keep everything separate. I am supposed to be
CA>> getting a 450mhz with 192 meg here sometime soon. 

WC> Why multiboot? as long as you've got access to a DOS
WC> partition you can put the image file and boot.bat there. Be
WC> sure to alter boot.bat to call the correct Linux partition
WC> instead of ramdrive. 

I don't want multiple format partitions all on one drive. 

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WC> but take care there's a disclaimer about NOT using FIPS on
WC> Compaq machines or presumably any with that proprietary
WC> style setup partition Compaq's use. 

Both of my machines are Compaq. 

WC> There's no need for LILO at all and I only use it here
WC> because somehow I've forgotten, and not read the docs, on
WC> loadlin15 for my old release. I currently boot my
WC> partitioned Basic Linux right out of my DOS - Windows
WC> partition. Now you _may_ need to use LILO with Win 9X on up
WC> but having no experience with those... 

I intend to have only Linux on the hard drive of whatever
machine I use. 

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CA>> This doesn't happen to me since I'm using W31, DOS, or BL
CA>> when I access the Internet. 

WC> It's coming in on Netscapes Mail under Win 3.1 and alters
WC> the registry to load the malicious code on loading Windows,
WC> got it's own SMTP too so it spreads in the background when
WC> online. I've got it licked though and it's helped me
WC> improve my security. 

I don't use Netscape's mail. 

CA>> Dealing with 'security' issues is an adjustment I will
CA>> need to make if I keep the W2K presently installed on the
CA>> 450mhz machine. 

WC> Being non-profit and an individual here I can snag
WC> something from  Zone Labs free when I load 98 and there are
WC> measures and HOW_TO's on securing Linux. 

I have enough equipment to setup a machine as my 'firewall' if
need be and am aware of ZoneAlarm. I put ZA on my brother's
machine. 

Linux has some determined children who are often born to
parents with more money than brains. Some of these children can
be extremely resourceful and destructive. One of them is my
afore-mentioned 'apprentice' turned Linux zealot. The upside is
he can probably tell me what I need to do to make it more
difficult if not impossible to hack into my machine. I just may
not like all that is required. 

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