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Topic: New on DSL - Linux, Few Questions

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TibiX

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Posted: Oct. 08 2005,19:57

Hi, I'm new on linux and dsl, and don't have lots of help around..

I have a few questions...

a) I have problems mounting my cd-rom... what's the name of the cd-rom file system???

b) My mouse moves slowly... How do I change its speed??

c) In Windows, I had to software increase the gamma and brightness... Can I do so in DSL?? (my monitor is broken)

d) Dont have make, cc or gcc installed :S I can't found it or it's not in the DSL package??

e) Is there any guide to newbies?? I want to configure a little few things... IE, I'm form Argentina and I don't have the ENIE, a letter in spanish languages...

f) I downloaded aMSN lots of times and in all of them the file command says "broken header" or some simmilar stuff... wtf??

Thank you all for your time...
Steven

mikshaw

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Posted: Oct. 08 2005,20:35

a) if you are in X, you should have a mounter application in the right side of the screen. Use the arrows to select the proper device and the button that looks kinda like a screw to mount/umount it. Or from a terminal, type "mount /dev/cdrom" or "mount /mnt/cdrom". If it's not one of these, I don't know what the device is. After mounting, the contents of the cdrom should be available through /mnt/cdrom.
If you're using a liveCD, you will need to boot with the "toram" option in order to use the cdrom.

b) Take a look at the "m" option of the xset command:
http://www.die.net/doc/linux/man/man1/xset.1.html

c) I dunno...might need xfree86 for that?

d) the mydsl package is gcc1.dsl
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/damnsmall/mydsl/

e) You can find some documentation at the wikki (link on the main damnsmalllinux.org page).

f) You can get the mydsl package from the link above.

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http://www.tldp.org/LDP/intro-linux/html/index.html

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