User Feedback :: 533 Mhz DSL rox!



I have an oldER machine that is only 533Mhz and maxed out at 320MB RAM.

But it's so old, I can't install winXP and the ole Win98 installation is starting to crap itself and it's getting hard to find modern apps for it.

I've tried other linuces, namely Vector (based on slackware).
Vector was great except I could not get it to play sound without being choppy.

So far DSL 2.2 is the ONLY linux that out of the box:
found my legacy sound card
found my CD ROM
found my NIC and connected automatically!

the sound works perfectly.

my only dissapointments are:

I had some trouble doing the frugal install

i was not able to update to the latest version of DSL

wish ReiserFS was supported for the boot partition.

i need Amarok or some other music player that builds and easily navigates a music database by their attributes. Xmms isn't so great for that and i get tired of trying to guess where my favorite songs are by filename.

i really need OpenOffice 2.0. - 2.0 beta and 1.x are not good enough.

I think I did a backup to my HD, but have not been able to verify that it will work. I don't see anything on the selected drive. I've install a number of apps and hope they will be there when I reboot. (I've been up 12 days with no crash -YAAYY!) But, I live in Florida and the power usually goes out when it rains. Been lucky so far.

could not get Gaim to work. Since I tried several installs, it's in my MyDSL menu 6 times, and update to GTK2 is in there 5 times. Mplayer is in there 2 times. Sure would like to know how to fix those.

My congrats to the DSL team. DSL is superb!

PS. some of my lady friends use DSL to describe particular female attributes...
1. Are you using a frugal installation on your hdd now?
2. (v)fat and ext2 are only supported; though it's possible to add the functionality.
3. amarok uses QT library afaik (kde stuff) so it will be a bit heavier, dunno if anyone has gotten it working on DSL yet though..  I just use xmms and load all the songs in the playlist first, then sort em out.  Maybe another media player, like xine, can do what you're looking for...
4. There's a package for v2 stable (in non-mydsl-official places), but OO is self contained, so you can grab the latest manual install off the OO official sites.
5. Frugal?  Look for backup.tar.gz
6. I hear the gaim package in mydsl is broken for some...  (conflicts with other extensions?). Unfortunately it will just add the icons/menu entries each time you load it, though loading it so many times shouldn't change anything else. (just don't load it multiple times)
Quote (^thehatsrule^ @ Sep. 17 2006,14:42)
1. Are you using a frugal installation on your hdd now?
2. (v)fat and ext2 are only supported; though it's possible to add the functionality.
3. amarok uses QT library afaik (kde stuff) so it will be a bit heavier, dunno if anyone has gotten it working on DSL yet though..  I just use xmms and load all the songs in the playlist first, then sort em out.  Maybe another media player, like xine, can do what you're looking for...
4. There's a package for v2 stable (in non-mydsl-official places), but OO is self contained, so you can grab the latest manual install off the OO official sites.
5. Frugal?  Look for backup.tar.gz
6. I hear the gaim package in mydsl is broken for some...  (conflicts with other extensions?). Unfortunately it will just add the icons/menu entries each time you load it, though loading it so many times shouldn't change anything else. (just don't load it multiple times)

thanks and nice to hear from you.

1: I am using a frugal install. Oddly, I thought I installed it to my hda4 partition, but when i use mount tool it shows as 'irregular' - i read elsewhere that this means this is the partition from which it booted. but that can't be because i am still running from the original day-one cd boot. besides that, i found the KNOPPIX folder in hda3, which i planned to reservedfor my just  /home folder.

aparrently this only exists in /ramdisk and is backed up into backup.tar.gz

5: i also found backup.tar.gz on /mnt/hda3

I had hoped to keep system and large apps (like OO) on hda4.

for clarity:
hda3 has: /home/dsl/
hda4 (apparently) has nothing but . and ..

4: i am now downloading OO 2.0.3...tar.gz

i would like to install it to /opt but the problem is, it's really in /ramdisk/opt and the files are never going to fit there. Do you know I could get it to install to an /opt on the disk and not in ram?

6. other posts have the same problem with gaim. i have not seen any solution yet.
Quote (joey66 @ Sep. 17 2006,15:20)
i would like to install it to /opt but the problem is, it's really in /ramdisk/opt and the files are never going to fit there. Do you know I could get it to install to an /opt on the disk and not in ram?

i think the answer to this might be /KNOPPIX/opt
1. irregular shows that it's already mounted as somewhere else i suppose (/cdrom in this case) - but I agree it does seem a bit odd in your case.  Run `mount` and you can see what and where everything is mounted.

4. /KNOPPIX is read only - but you may create a .uci extension, (some others have been looking for this as well).
5. Unless you really want it in /opt (i.e. making the extension) you can just install it to hda4 straight out.

6. I suppose that package is in need of updating.
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