Hello,

DSL is totally new to me, so I feel like being in the dark.

I've run live and then installed DSL on my old Pentium II laptop, but I've some doubts:

1. "Ensure to be already connected to the net before running the installer..."
    As a newbie, I don't know how a computer with a blank disk can be already connected to any net.
    So I didn't connect it to any network and performed a basic installation.
    Hope I haven't lost anything.

2. "To use a separate boot partition you need our cli installer"
    Fine, where is it? What's its name? Is it on the CD? Or how do I get it?

3. My laptop used to run RedHat 8 and then Fedora 4. Both of them provided the siliconmotion video driver.
    Since it's missing in the distro, I guess it's impossible to run X unless I install that driver.
    To do that I need to build it by gcc.
    How do I get and properly install the gcc package, if any?

4. In fact I have to modify Grub to start the o.s. console. For who have unsupported video cards, to start the system at the command line level would be a very appreciated option.
    And what about the old /etc/inittab file? How to modify runlevels manually?

5. Man pages are missing and I couldn't find any up-to-date on-line help, so I feel totally blind.
    How do I get man pages?

Thank you so much in advance.

I wanted to make use of a legacy hp t5000 series thin client pc, very weak in performance, it using Crusoe CPU, 64mb ram, 32mb flash, windows CE. Net 4.20 ,so i wanted to run Linux, i have tried slax, kernel panic ,damn small Linux couldn't load my wireless mouse drivers at last i had to try the old precise puppy 5.3 non pae, it took took long to reach the full desktop and the cpu usage was all red, couldn't do anything, is that because of small memory or the CPU can only execute one code at a time

Dumb question, maybe, but how can I obtain and install the Radeon 600 series gpu driver?
My resolution is extreme and unchangable and my vision is quite weak. Many thanks for
any help.

I want to install DSL in my /sda4. I had there slitaz installed. The installation went fine.
But when I boot the computer I got an error message:
"error no such devise 2l0a................. "
"error file /boot/vmlinuz-3.16.55-slitaz not found

Grup still has slitaz recognized in that partition. When I go to Grub to edit
the last line says:

"linux /boot/vmlinuz-3.16.55-slitaz root=/dev/sda4 "

I don't know much about Grup. But it seems that I have to change the last line
and where it said /boot/vmlinuz-3.16.55-slitaz change it to the DSL image to boot.
If that is the case: What do I have to write there?

Don't mind to re-install. But the part where it said where to put Grub it was
not clear to me. I left on the default, MBR

I would appreciated some help.

I've tried it on my Acer Aspire One 522, so a real system, not virtualisation.

You've updated all the packages; thanks.

Locale en_CA is supposed to be included on the ISO, but it isn't.

On the first boot screen, pressing F3 brings up a list of cities to choose the time zone. Some cities have an asterisk after their name, but others don't. What's the difference?

The installer marks a swap partition as file system type 83 rather than the correct 82.

In the Control Centre (thanks for the correct spelling, BTW ), under Network, when choosing Select Wifi Application, I can't choose Connman: the mouse jumps back to Ceni. However, the button marked Wifi Connect starts Connman anyway, and the button under that starts Ceni, so perhaps Select Wifi Application is unnecessary anyway.

When I installed firefox-esr, it appeared in the Applications menu, but frozen-bubble and libreoffice-writer didn't.

I get the following error message after using apt install, but the installation succeeds anyway. This bug seems to originate with AntiX, so you might want to forward it to them:

(desktop-menu:8512): Gtk-CRITICAL **: 17:24:22.083: gtk_icon_theme_get_for_screen: assertion 'GDK_IS_SCREEN (screen)' failed
Writing Menu: jwm
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/bin/desktop-menu", line 477, in <module>
    build_menu()
  File "/usr/local/bin/desktop-menu", line 313, in build_menu
    process_menu(menu)
  File "/usr/local/bin/desktop-menu", line 219, in process_menu
    icon = find_icon(entry) or default_folder_icon
          ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/usr/local/bin/desktop-menu", line 148, in find_icon
    if icon_theme.lookup_icon(appicon, icon_size, 0) and not no_gtk:
      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'lookup_icon'

Edit: Enhancement request: show the battery status in conky.

Both versions of Beta 3 just boot to grub from USB; strangely, the Vbox version boots fine in vbox!

• Added a significantly improved Bash USB installer that supports data persistence and conserves space on the USB drive (no more DD method!).
  
• Included xserver-xorg-video-intel to support native resolution on some EEE PCs and other machines.
  
• Created a custom JWM theme color that matches the default in Fluxbox.
  
• Fixed a terminal launch bug in zzzFM.
  
• Implemented a text mode option at boot to correct a known bug inherited from runit/antiX.
  
• Enhanced the Slimski login with dialog to improve user-friendliness.
  

Dear all,

New to DSL. Just download it and run it on Proxmox successfully with 1 core CPU (using qemu32) and 512 RAM. Looking to install DSL permanently on Proxmox but no clue where to begin with. So, now I just tested it on the fly.

Good work, DSL!

Cheers,


   

When using file manager and trying to open the terminal with F4, it does not open the terminal. What should I do? I am using DSL RC2. Regards!

Hi all; I'm writing from Italy and I'm trying to run DSL2024 in a QEMU box under Linux. I would like to boot in text-only mode, but if I search the ney I can find old tutorials, referring to the old DSL. In muy configuration I have a root user and a normal user; I would like to start in terminal mode choosing what user needs to be activated, as normally in other distros.

Please, can you help me showing which conf files I have to modify?

Thano you all,
--
Giorgino