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Dual Booting with VERY minimal installs
KernelPanic:
Give dillo a shot, I'm sure 300Kb is small enough for anyone
This browser is very cool, it doesnt support frames, but hell its 300KB!!!
Calum:
okay! will do!
so luckily you have used basiclinux, and presumably others have tried slackware, now i went here and could not find the files 'mouse' and 'startx', which this page says i need to install X properly. what am i missing here, does anybody know? thanks in advance.
[edit] just read the objectives page on the dillo site, looks very very good...
[edit] also, i already have the source for XFce and (presumably) for 'mouse' and 'startx' if they are indeed files, on my mandrake 9.0 CDs (i hope! i haven't opened those CDs yet, but i suppose they must be normal tar files, yes?), will these versions work in BasicLinux?
[ November 18, 2002: Message edited by: Calum: Linux Commando ]
KernelPanic:
Calum you are reading wrong, it does not mean you need to download 'mouse' and 'startx'. They are commands. All of what it says in the box are commands for installing X.
[Calum@localhost calum]$ pkg x332bin.tgz
[Calum@localhost calum]$ pkg x332cfg.tgz
[Calum@localhost calum]$ pkg x332fnts.tgz
[Calum@localhost calum]$ pkg x332lib.tgz
[Calum@localhost calum]$ pkg x332vg16.tgz
[Calum@localhost calum]$ mouse
[Calum@localhost calum]$ startx
Although, I'm sure they've missed the xf86config step.
[ November 18, 2002: Message edited by: Tux ]
Calum:
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 ]
[ November 21, 2002: Message edited by: Calum: Linux Commando ]
mobrien_12:
As much as I love freedos and think it's really cool, I'd stay away from it if you want to do real work in DOS. Stability and program compatibility is an issue, and windows 3.1x doesn't work on it last time I checked.
If you don't want to use MS DOS, I'd suggest DR-DOS. It isn't GPL, but it is good.
You can also install DR-GEM and a bunch of it's older programs for free.
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