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Topic: Feedback : 0.6.3 as OS, general feedback (upgr 0.6.2 -> 0.6.3)

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roberts

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Posted: 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.

guille

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Posted: 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!!

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roberts

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Posted: 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..

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Posted: 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/*

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Posted: 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/*

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