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Posted: Feb. 24 2004,01:44

In DSL version 6, my opera setup from DSL 0.5.3.1 went south...
Opera will boot, but most web pages are unreadable. That's very odd, really, as most pages I have written for rapidweather.com seemed to work, but almost everything else, such as http://www.usatoday.com did not. I do use very simple html, so that may be why. All the big commercial pages from Yahoo, etc. were a mess. Made Opera unusable.
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We need some more Opera install scripts that will work with DSL 6. My scripts worked in 0.5.3.1, but the tarball made on those systems won't work in DSL 6. I was able to get MozillaFirebird back ok, but not Opera.
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I finally had to delete it (using emelfm) , and just use Moz as my browser.
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Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want. I still have computers with DSL 0.5.3.1 on them, and both Opera and Moz work well.
I am experimenting with 6, to see what can be done with it. (or to it)
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As I mentioned elsewhere, I had to put wvdial (from dsl 0.5.3.1)back in 6 as a restore item,
my modem won't work with the default DSL 6 modem setup, cannot be
detected.
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Rapidweather Remaster of DSL:
http://www.angelfire.com/ms/telegram/getting_started.html
Rapidweather Remaster of Knoppix Linux:
http://www.geocities.com/rapidweather/getting_started.html
Screenshots:
http://www.rapidweather.com/linuxcdsales.html

cbagger01

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Posted: Feb. 24 2004,03:08

The problem is not with the Opera install script or the Opera program.

The problem appears to be that version 0.6 of DSL doesn't provide Opera with the required fonts for normal web browsing use.

I don't know any more details besides the fact that the most common fonts no longer display any more.

Stick to version 0.5.3.1 for now until the DSL developers can come up with a solution for a future version.

Version 0.6 seems to be a major revision of DSL because it was rebuilt from a new version of Knoppix. Bugs like these should be expected, although it is my hope that they will be addressed soon, like when Knoppix undergoes a major revision followed by a few quick bugfix releases.

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Posted: Feb. 24 2004,05:50

I never would have guessed that 0.6 has a font problem. When I viewed my local Opera home page, everything looked normal. Here is the web version of the page:
http://www.geocities.com/rapidweather/web.html
All I did was use MozillaFirebird to save the page, web.html and a directory, web_files, in /home/damnsmall, and used Scite to remove the counter, and had Opera pick it up as it's home page when Opera booted up. It looked normal, fonts and all. The fun began when I began to surf the links on the page. Opera could not do a lot of the pages correctly, fontwise. However, when I went to some of my pages, they appeared correctly, but not all of them.
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So, for Opera 6.12, I need to use DSL 0.5.3.1, which I have on other machines. I am just testing DSL 6 on this box, and the main change that I have made, is to include wvdial in the tarball for restoration, and some small changes to the menu. I do have to use a filetool.sh of my own, and place that in the
Windows partition with the /knoppix directory. I do a quasi-install of DSL after I run it off the CDROM a while, it runs faster. Main reason for having my own filetool.sh is that the default one sometimes backs up a minimal filetool.lst, from
/home/damnsmall, and that can leave me without a full backup/restore tarball, so I have to fix that before shutting down the machine.
Other than that, I am doing alright with DSL 6.
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Without going into details, those Opera install scripts seemed to go crazy running in DSL 6 for some reason, nothing was where it was supposed to be, etc. , so that alone is a good reason for Opera fans to stick to 0.5.3.1.
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John

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Posted: Feb. 24 2004,08:35

Does Opera give any diagnostic information about which fonts it is missing?

If so, pleas post it here.

Rapidweather Offline

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Posted: Feb. 24 2004,13:38

Was not able to determine that prior to my "uninstalling opera" on 6, the pages
only showed horizontal lines and a few images when viewed.

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Rapidweather Remaster of DSL:
http://www.angelfire.com/ms/telegram/getting_started.html
Rapidweather Remaster of Knoppix Linux:
http://www.geocities.com/rapidweather/getting_started.html
Screenshots:
http://www.rapidweather.com/linuxcdsales.html

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