boot up questions

Forum: HD Install
Topic: boot up questions
started by: palloco

Posted by palloco on Sep. 09 2005,16:25

First, I would like to greet everyone who had worked on this project. It is an excellent live cd and a good hd distribution. It still needs more time than windows to boot but it is better than any other distribution at this aspect and better than many of the big distros at the easyness of use, even when I am unable to install the libraries to compile Wesnoth since there are broken dependencies :/

Yet I would like to customize the bootup. I saw that autoconfiguring devices takes a lot of time... cant they be already configured? Which ones are the files that do this job in a normal hd-install? Is this one of them or it is just for cdrom boot ?
/etc/init.d/knoppix-autoconfig

Is it normal that before starting fluxbox a serie of messages like this appears?
"mount: no medium found
umount: /cdrom: not mounted"
cant find /mnt/hda1 in etc/fstab or etc/mtab

Does it have any relation with the fact that I can change fstab since it gets overwritten ?

And this seems a bug since it did not appeared in DSL 1.4: The next message appears whenever I install a dsl package or when I close fluxbox.
"cannot allocate color"

Thanks

Posted by ke4nt1 on Sep. 09 2005,18:06

The /home/dsl/.xtdesktop/xinitrc currently looks like this..

I added one line, and my "Cannot allocate color" error has
vanished from my bootup and startup into X ..

Quote

table Config
FontName: -*-helvetica-medium-r-*-*-12-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1
FontColor: #FFFFFF
ShadowColor: #000000 <-- ADD THIS LINE
ClickInterval: 500
end

table Layout
Cols: 4
Width: 65
Height: 76
TopMargin: 5
end

New version of xtdesk may explain this occuring..
Let us know if this helps..

Have you tried our Wesnoth extension ?
< http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub....oth.dsl >

73
ke4nt

Posted by palloco on Sep. 09 2005,19:43

Yeah, thx it worked. Just if anyone looks for this problem the file was /home/dsl/.xtdesktop/xtdeskrc.

Yes, I had tried that Wesnoth and it worked fine. But I wanted to be able to compile the source code so I can update it whenever a new release appears. But I am unable to install the SDL libraries needed. The apt get for the libsdl 1.2dev said there were unmet dependencies so i got it overriding them to check what happened. Wesnoth configure accepted them as installed, but I did the same with the next library, the libsdl image, and it did not detect it. I guess it would be easier to install in a full debian system.
How did you installed it, compiling it or you got a binary file?

Posted by Your Fuzzy God on Sep. 09 2005,22:54

I thought I was going to have to live the rest of my life with that "Cannot allocate color" error. You're a genie, Ke4nt1!!!

Posted by ke4nt1 on Sep. 10 2005,10:53

palloco,

Wesnoth is a great game, and one of the few that runs in the base DSL.
Even better with Xfree86 alone, or Xfree86 and NVidia acceleration.

I compiled the latest source code - 0.9.7 ,
in a DSL-1.5 liveCD session, using the debian stable devel debs for SDL.
( with gcc1.dsl, gnu-utils.dsl, dsl-dpkg.dsl, and kernelsources.dsl added for a spicy mix! )

I also have one of my DSL-1.5 frugal-installs that persistantly mimics
this exact environment, but I am currently using it for another project..

Like you , I had to do some overrides and force-all's to get the debs to behave.
Sometimes, it is better to apt-get -d install foobar many times,
get everything you need in /var/cache/apt/archives,
then do a dpkg -i *.deb from there, and force the uncooperative ones..

Since it is a liveCD session, once I'm finished, I can simply reboot,
and all is right with the world once again.. no leftovers.. no dependency issues.

You can find it in the mydsl-testing area of the repository.

Let us know if you see any improvement from the older one.

73
ke4nt

Posted by palloco on Sep. 10 2005,19:25

Thanks, sometimes you are only able to do something when you know it is possible. After seeing so many errors I thougt I was going nowhere, specially when it asked me to download 30 Mb to fix the libraries, and since I'm on Dialup I did not want to waste time.
Now I managed to compile Wesnoth but jeez, it needed a lot of space, I had to reinstall DSL because it got screwed when there was no space in HD. Compiling took me almost an hour , heh, in my 486 I would need around 10 hours.
But the important thing is that now Wesnoth works... and it is faster than in windows :laugh:

Posted by ke4nt1 on Sep. 10 2005,19:39

Success!

Congrats!

73
ke4nt