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Dual Booting with VERY minimal installs
Calum:
reason is that i don't have NT3.51, and i just paid
KernelPanic:
quote:Originally posted by Calum: Linux Commando:
and that would go after 'mouse' i suppose? well, i've never used slackware before, and although much of the trail has obviously been blazed for me, i think i'll be asking some dumbass questions on the way, but i do reckon it's time to partially shuck my mandrake 9 training wheels! :D
now i read it back, it's obvious that they are commands, and that there are five files i need to download...
edit - MORE from calum's bumbling slackware dramas:
it says very little on this page about installing a c compiler in this new BasicLinux, and i am confused firstly about why the page doesn't seem to know what dependencies will be required. Also, i am confused about which C compiler actually gets installed! what would i execute to run it? anybody familiar with this.
It'sll be 2 weeks till my laptop arrives anyway, so no bother, and i am sure i'll hash it out if i have to by myself, but i just like to find out stuff before i try...
thanks! :D
edit - by the way, how much do you think the laptop should have cost me? i am interested to see how good or bad a deal i have got.
[ November 18, 2002: Message edited by: Calum: Linux Commando ]
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If you install those 5 packages from the d1 package set, you will have a working C compiler. You may even be able to use the newer versions of these packages from a newer version of slackware. The C compiler installed is egcs, which has been superceeded by gcc (I think). I can't shed much light on this one though Calum.
:rolleyes: Looks to Void Main :rolleyes:
If I Have some spare time this weekend I may just install basic linux and see what i can see.
Calum:
actually, you don't need to install it! download an older DOS bootdisk image (i used DOS 5.0 from bootdisk.com) and dd it to a floppy, then in DOS, unzip baslinux.zip and run make_fd, using your 'new' DOS5.0 disk as disk one and a cleanly formatted disk as disk two.
This method gives you the feel of basiclinux, but now i think about it, installing the c compiler is not available unless you stick it onto the hard drive.
on second thoughts, while basiclinux touts itself as a two floppy distro, i am seeing that it would be a LOT more powerful/more versatile if it were allowed to spread its metaphorical elbows over a few extra MB on the hard drive...
KernelPanic:
Yeah, installing it on the hard drive is ideal, that's what I did. In fact, I may install basic linux on one of my partition and build it up into a nice, fast system (with X). That could be interesting if time allows me. Damn this cursed world, I think m0r was right about a longer day...
Calum:
i can't wait! i've never had an operating system before where i know where everything is and what it does! (well, certainly basiclinux offers this potentially) and i am looking forward to it when this laptop arrives (we're into the 'waiting for the cheque to clear' stage now, i reckon it might have cleared by maybe monday or tuesday).
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