Good OS, fast, simple, but have some problems

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Topic: Good OS, fast, simple, but have some problems
started by: marcosg

Posted by marcosg on Mar. 06 2004,11:55

Hello, my name is Marcos, form Argentina. I´m a complety newbie in Linux, but with the help of DSL I can see that Linux is much much better than Windows: faster, secure, easy (in some way).

My pourpose (sorry about my English) in writing this is to help some newbies that are using Windows and don´t know if they can install DSLinux on their machines (or believe that something can harm his system).
Case 1º: PC with one hard Disk and one partition runing Windows me/xp (both)
I recomend to install DSLinux in this way:
1º Download Partition Magic 7 from some way (k.....)
2º Make a Linux Partition on your hard Disk
3º reboot, wait a lot, ok.
4º Put DSLinux CD and follow the instructions of the autor
5º I must type sudo -u root dsl-install /dev/hda5
6º sudo -u root mkliloboot /dev/hda5

This must be ok for this kind of situation.
/dev/hda5 is the 1º logical partition on the 1º HD on the 1º IDE, it is the most common situation I think... well, goo luck.

Questions:
1º I have download audacity and work OK, I´ve download another programs but they doesn´t work because DSL have not a C compiler on $path ¿Someone can help me? TCC is a compiler, but I can´t fin him!
2º I cant make to run apt-get, i have not net acces, and i´ve follow the instructions
(move to /var/lib, then uncompres it: tar dpkg.tar.gz)
I´ve download dpkg.tar.gz from my windows net acces dial up connection and put the file in /var/lib.
help!
Because I need tu install some audio programs.

marcosg@argentina.com
www.pc-musica.tk

Posted by PhrozenFear on Mar. 06 2004,17:52

I stumbled across this last night in my first attempt to customize DSL. If you go to /bin, and type ls -l you'll see that there's a lot of files that are actually links to one file (I can't remember it's name). type ./(that filename) and it'll show you all of the commands that it can do. Then type ./(that file name I can't remember) dpkg-restore. If memory serves, that should install apt-get for you, and then you can go from there.
The only problem I found with that is that it doesn't auto-complete the names when you're trying to remove / install something - you have to type it out in it's entirety, or use the * wildcard.

Hopefully that helps you a bit.

>>PhrozenFear