-> Hello Tom - 

-> MM>>> Wish I had the guts to load Linux! But, getting too old
-> MM>>> for this dog to learn new tricks now. :-(( 

-> ->> Download one of the free Linux livecds such as KNOPPIX CD
-> ->> ISO image file and burn it to a CD. It operates from the CD
-> ->> and a virtual drive (no install) and comes up with a rather
-> ->> nice GUI display. :-) 

-> TW> If one wants to use it very often they must master the
-> TW> "Trick" of saving the Set up. Otherwise it is starting from
-> TW> "Square 1" at every boot up. 

-> I seem to recall that the settings can be saved to a floppy? 

Doesn't work in the 3.3 release here but I've been up in running over
four weeks in ramdrive now.
From boot to online and configured is 7 minutes after the BIOS boots
and the ram check completes.

I've got a very small drive in the 486 with two Linux partitions
on I could try in this machine to save settings, addresses, ect.

As is I manualy mount /dev/fd0 and save specific files like
bookmarks and e-mail addresses to floppy.
It's rather simple to import them as needed.

You're URL's to the improved Windows fdisk and format
are on floppy as message.eml the default message name.
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