Clarence Verge wrote:
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> I have now tried it. It loads fast and links looks nice.
> PPPsetup seemed easy but I don't think it worked. Can't
> tell. No onscreen dialogue. How do I turn that on ?
I'd love to have an onscreen dialogue and have tried many
different ways of getting chat/pppd to output to the screen.
But nothing worked for me. Such things are normally done
via the syslog daemon, but there ain't no syslogd in
BasicLinux.
> I dialled and screeched but nothing happened anywhere.
> Links said No host. When I did ppp-off, it said it wasn't
> installed.
Sounds like a login problem to me. Does your ISP use
PAP/CHAP ?
> I only have 16Mb here. Is that enough after making the RD ?
That's plenty. Even 8meg is probably enough. Linux uses
2meg and the ramdisk is 4meg, so that leaves 2meg free RAM
(on an 8meg system). I've run BasicLinux with 8meg RAM
and everything seemed fine; but there was no modem on that
machine, so I don't know how 8meg performs when browsing
via dial-up ppp.
> But, how can you save your setup if you DO get it working ?
If you want to save just those setup files, then (after you
get them working) you can copy them to a floppy or to your
harddrive. Something like this:
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mount /dev/fd0 /mnt
copy /etc/resolv.conf /mnt
copy /etc/ppp/* /mnt
umount /mnt
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The problem with the above method is that you need to reload
these settings every time you reboot BasicLinux. A better
method is to edit the baslinux.gz filesystem directly. The
instructions for this are in the Customization section of
README.TXT.
> This is the main problem with the QNXdemo. It's very small
> (not more than 600k bigger than yours and has a complete
> graphic browser included.
Hopefully, BasicLinux will eventually have a graphic browser
too (Arachne!).
> It's just a demo if you can't write to the HD.
Don't worry. BasicLinux is able to write to your HD
(but only if you tell it to). The current version
can mount any IDE drive and happily reads/writes MSDOS
filesystems. If you have a SCSI drive, you will need
a different zimage file (from Slackware 3.5 kernels
directory).
Cheers,
Steven
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