Feedback : 0.6.3 as OS

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Topic: Feedback : 0.6.3 as OS
started by: steph291

Posted by steph291 on April 15 2004,16:28

Looks cool to me.
just flush my 0.6.2 and installed 0.6.3.
same problem :
no mouse, had to 'ln -s /dev/ttyS0 /dev/mouse'
then netcardconfig, then mount /dev/cdrom.
And the tzconfig is acting bizarre like, asking
again and again for a 'city' ... had to ctrl-c

Last thing : I'm not a fan of 'vi', that's all.
I prefer 'joe' which is pretty ease to use.
How do I replace Midnight Commander 'edit'
feature( which use Vi) by 'joe' ?

now reinstalling shoutcast server and dj part.

stay tune.

Posted by Dan on April 15 2004,16:33

Yeah, it looks like tzconfig only works for US time zones, probably the non US timezone info was deleted for space.

Posted by steph291 on April 15 2004,17:03

Bingo !

everythings are in place and my setup is complete !!!
now need to include in /opt/bootlocal.sh :
ln -s /dev/ttyS0 /dev/mouse (serial mouse)
mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom (cdrom ready at boot)

Looks like pretty functionnal to me

now need to figure out how to play with
samba...

and verify if my soundcard is working....
ttyl

Posted by hasty on April 15 2004,18:13

Steph do you need to do this every time?
I just did rm /dev/mouse and then did ln -s /dev/ttyS0 /dev/mouse
It works OK every time without having to add it to boot local.

Love the new control panel

Posted by KnightFire on April 16 2004,04:57

Hmm... The 0.6.3 ISO info still reports this as KNOPPIX and not DSL, it'd be nice if that wee bit was corrected too. Also... I'm a big fan of DistroWatch... would it be possible to do a DistroWatch style update page where it shows the changes from release to release in a table form?

Posted by KnightFire on April 16 2004,05:20

Damn Small Control Panel shows DHCP as being ON, does this mean that a DHCP Daemon is running by default? Or is this actually refering to the client in this instance?

Posted by woverin on April 16 2004,05:48

updatedb is also broken
I'm behind a firewall/proxy

where do i set proxy setting ?
---------------------
wgetrc configuration
---------------------
http_proxy = < http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:8080/ >
ftp_proxy = < http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:8080/ >
proxy_user = myuser
proxy_passwd = mypass
use_proxy = on
--------------------
here is where i edit all wgetrc files
/home/knoppix/.wgetrc
/home/damnsmall/.wgetrc
/root/.wgetrc
also edit
/etc/wgetrc

but i still can't connect
where do you guy keep wget configuration files and apt.conf ?

Posted by Tom on April 16 2004,06:17

updatedb won't work from the CD, only after a HD install.

Posted by KnightFire on April 16 2004,06:33

Quote (KnightFire @ April 16 2004,01:20)

Damn Small Control Panel shows DHCP as being ON, does this mean that a DHCP Daemon is running by default? Or is this actually refering to the client in this instance?

To answer my own post, it appears to be the client only; as when I stop it, my net connection drops (ifconfig shows lo only).

Posted by woverin on April 16 2004,06:59

i did HD install but updatedb still did not work.
here is the what i got

root@box:/home/damnsmall# updatedb
sort: invalid option -- f
BusyBox v1.00-pre5 (2004.01.15-15:11+0000) multi-call binary

Usage: sort [-n] [FILE]...

BusyBox v1.00-pre5 (2004.01.15-15:11+0000) multi-call binary

Usage: find [PATH...] [EXPRESSION]

root@box:/home/damnsmall#

Posted by roberts on April 16 2004,07:01

DSL has never had a dhcp server. It is the client. If you want static IP and boot with nodhcp it will be off.
The KNOPPIX vs DSL is for shortcuts. Less typing

Many people use shortcuts. So now you can use something like this.
boot: dsl xvesa enhance toram
This is also because DSL keeps adding features that are not standard KNOPPIX boot codes.

It does not represent the compressed image name of KNOPPIX.

Posted by guille on April 16 2004,13:19

I'm very newbie in linus and specially in dsl (less a week) so my opinion is very limitted but on monday I've installed 0.6.2 and yesterday 've installed 0.6.3 on my hd and everything seems to be working. Control panel seems ok and usefull (perhaps a buttom for launching pon/poff in future 0.6.4?)
Thinking very seriously in using as main linux instead knoppix also installed in my machine. When I feell satisfied at all I'll try to instal in 2 old pc a laptop without cd and 800Mb hd and 64Mb memory with a pentium 75 and a pentium 100 and all family will be linux-user (I hope so) Really is a good distro! You must 'work it' a little before using but it works and very well!!

Posted by roberts on April 16 2004,16:20

woverine, it is very simple. Use enhanced hdinstall and you won't have busybox issues. In fact anyone, that wants to install alot of software, or wants a standard GNU/Linux system should use that option. It's your choice. Standard hard drive install is basically the cdrom environment but in a writeable and faster hosted on a hard drive environment..

Posted by Teobromina on April 16 2004,17:06

I like the control pannel. It is a good idea. But how can I change the keyboard to be effective? In the applications I used after trying to change the keyboard to 'es', it still worked as the kb by deffect (I assume it is 'us').
Thanks for the distro: it is very god!
*/Teobromina/*

Posted by Teobromina on April 16 2004,21:05

The option of copying the CDRom 'tohd' and later on to boot 'fromhd' makes very easy to use the CD drive of an old computer with few ram, because it is possible to release the CD (as the 'toram' option does in modern computers with plenty of ram).

I have tried it copying the CDRom to the /hda1 in a fat32 partition, of an old pentium 166 MHz with 64 Mb of ram, and it works.

In addition, this is another option for those new in linux, not willing to repartition the disk.

Congratulations.

*/Teobromina/*

Posted by steph291 on April 18 2004,16:34

Almost one week, 0.6.3 is up and running.
got strange thing... X crashing early in the morning.
add to reboot, restart several network processes .

there should be some traces of that somewhere?

XServer logs ?

Posted by onerobe on April 24 2004,15:38

I'm highly confused.......

I'm using version 0.6.3
First Problem - when i go to install to my hard-drive and use the enhanced version, it throws up error asking if i'd like to continue with standard install, i answered yes. I would like the enhanced install.

second problem - I am behind proxy, and have added proxy to wget config file. No Change. Still can't connect.

when you do a hd install what is the size of the installation???

Anyway I couln't find any answers to these questions so far, please help

Using linux 4 years and still a noob........cheers

Posted by onerobe on April 24 2004,15:44

btw using laptop w/- 300mb hard-drive, 64mb ram, 233Mhz.

So no probs there (except hardrive space)

Posted by Grim on April 24 2004,23:08

Quote (Teobromina @ April 16 2004,11:06)

< From the developer's website for the Kdrive Xservers... >

Quote

At the time of writing, the KDrive server only has support for a generic Linux keyboard; the keyboard mapping is copied from the Linux kernel tables at startup. As X11 has richer keyboard information than Linux, and furthermore KDrive's mapping tables are incomplete, the results are not always perfect; I have found it necessary to fix my keyboard using xmodmap.

I had originally thought that once installed to hard drive, it was a simple matter of installing the `locales' package. I was incorrect. Apparently, xmodmap must be used every time the Xserver is restarted to remap the keyboard. Perhaps somebody could write a script for this?

Posted by Teobromina on April 25 2004,08:31

Hi! The way I use to change the keyboard is at boot time, telling at prompt "dsl lang=es", before the sequence of booting starts. And it works. For those that have the same problem as me... :;):

In the other hand, the use I give the distro is as a tool. Because is able to read all the filesystems, and provides the most important functions a OS must have. I only insist in that it would be better with a better CD burner. I cannot do it with the actual one. :angry:

*/Teobromina/*

Posted by cbagger01 on April 25 2004,15:35

Did you try GCombust for burning CDs?

I find it easier to use than bashburn, and it is small and fast, too.

It ain't Nero but it gets the job done. The Nero-like cd burning programs for Linux are all too big to fit inside the default DSL distro.

Posted by Teobromina on April 25 2004,19:22

Hi cbagger:

The problem is żhow can I get and configure the GCombust burner?

Regards.

*/Teobromina/*

Posted by cbagger01 on April 26 2004,01:42

cdrecord is built into DSL version 0.6+

From the Gcombust preferences window, click on the "Detect SCSI" button and it will find the settings for your cd burner.

Good Luck.

Posted by PhrozenFear on April 27 2004,16:38

Does DSL do the usual Linux hate thing if you have an ATAPI burner and try burning using scsi emulation ? I have that problem with my Fedora install - gotta set your boot config to say "hdc=ide-cdrom" in order to burn, because ide-scsi just pukes trying to find the burner, even when doing a "dev=ATAPI -scanbus".

I've never been able to make the boxburn thing work on DSL, but then again, I'm sometimes really stupid.

____
>>PhrozenFear

Posted by cbagger01 on April 28 2004,01:49

DSL is based on 2.4.22 Linux kernel and it supports CD burning via SCSI emulation as opposed to direct IDE/ATAPI access.

However, the knoppix autoconfig scripts and boot parameters should automatically configure the SCSI emulation for you if your CD burner is located on your primary or secondary IDE controllers.

Both GCombust and Bashburn use the cdrecord utility to do the actual burning, so if the problem is related to cdrecord, then you are out of luck with either app.

However, GCombust is easier to use and the Preferences tab contains a "Detect SCSI" button that when pushed will make the app attempt to automatically configure your SCSI settings for burning.

It's a small download, so it's probably worth it to try.

Good Luck.