SAMBA here I come! Thanks Klaus, this plus Steve's response makes me want to put BASLINUX on my now paperweight IBM PS/2 Model 55 SX MCA with a 60MB HD On Wed, 19 Sep 2001, arachne-digest wrote: > ------------------------------ > > Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2001 06:58:38 -0400 (EDT) > From: Klaus Hameyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Installing BASLINUX, X, and NETSCAPE 3.04 on a small HD > > Hello Friends of Arachne - > > I've noticed that while waiting for her second coming, a number > of us who had not done so before have taken to tinkering around > with various LINUXes including BASLINUX, Steven's ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > baby. > > At the risk of boring those who already know their way around > LINUX and turning off those who are not interested, I thought I'd > tell you how I put BASLINUX, X, and NETSCAPE onto a 120 MB DOS hard > drive. If you're going to get upset with me for wasting your time, > please hit the delete button NOW! > > Anyway, some of you who have been on the list for a while will > remember that I had an awful lot of trouble getting a Compaq 590 > to accept the packet drivers for Arachne. With help from many of > you, I got it working via a circuitous roundabout route the details > of which are now unimportant. I still haven't thrown it out and that's > the machine with the small HD. > > First, I familiarized myself with the pared-down Slackware 3.5 > version that Steven had prepared for a RAM disk. But of course 4 MB > is very small, especially for LINUX. I was then tempted by Steven's > add-on package to put the system on a HD permanently. Aside from his > instructions, I had to do the following: > > 1. defrag the DOS disk to put all the data up front (in DR-DOS, that's > DISKOPT) > 2. use a partition resizing utility called PRESIZE (you can probably > find it on the web, or if not, I can send you a copy) to cut down the > DOS partition to as little as I could live with and without erasing > any data (pay attention to the amount of free space shown by DOS and > give yourself some latitude) > 3. booted Steven's RAM DISK BASLINUX form DOS and used fdisk to make a > linux partition. As Steven says: BE CAREFUL! (Hit p and you get the > partition table. Your DOS disk will probably be partition 1 and have > the bootable flag (*) set. Hit n and make a new partition (it will be > linux, code 83, by default)) > 4. reboot the machine to DOS and follow Steven's instructions in his > HD install package (INSTL_HD.ZIP). > 5. reboot again to DOS and make sure you can get from DOS to BASLINUX > on the HD. > 6. Assuming yes, and that you had previously (in the RAM version?) > run PPPSETUP and familiarized yourself with LINKS, go to the > Slackware/slakware/x1 site and download the 5 packages needed for > the X-system (x332bin.tgz; x332cfg.tgz; x332fnts.tgz; x332lib.tgz; > x332SVGA.tgz (or x332VG16.tgz depending on your video) - Steven > has more info on his site. > 7. run xf86config. This is the trickiest part! You need to know about > your monitor and your video card. Don't be surprised (or discouraged) > if you have to do this several times. It will write XF86Config in the > /etc directory. Type 'startx'. If you're lucky, you'll get something with > the TWM windows manager. You probably won't like it. Use a text > editor (E3=wordstar commands; or pico) to change /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc > towards the bottom of the file to something you like (make a backup > first). There are many permutations possible here. I removed xclock, > one xterm window, and resized the other to fit my screen. Experiment, > see what it looks like. Steven was also kind enough to provide me with > icewm (but you've heard the plusses and minuses from Steven and Steve > on the list). I suggest keeping it simple at first. > 8. download Netscape 3.04 from the netscape site (there's a lot of stuff > there. Steven suggested: http://home.netscape.com/download/archive/ > client_archive30x.html and to look for 3.04 English > Netscape Navigator > > Unix > Download: x86 LINUX ELF - complete install (40-bit encryption) > 9. copy the downloaded file to the directory where you want to put Netscape > (I chose /opt/ but Steven informs me this is usually /usr/local). > He also says that his PKG script is for Slackware only, so you'll > have to install using tar -xvf <filename>. You will need to make some PATH > changes, or, as I prefer, to add an alias to the /root/.bashrc file > (e.g., for me, alias nav='/opt/netscape/netscape') NB: If you don't > have a .bashrc file, it is the same as the .profile file and you can > copy the former from the latter (as far as I can tell). > 10. netscape preferences can be set from the options button, but also > in the /root/.netscape/preferences file if you want things to stay > changed and if you want to set your homepage to /root/hotlist.html. > > I don't know whether I've inadvertently left out some critical step, which > inevitably happens, but this is the general gist of how I got there. Steps > 2 and 3 are probably the ones you need to be most careful about. > > I hope this is of some help to somebody, especially if the next version > of Arachne comes out LINUX first. I do hope Michael will keep the > libSVGA option though, and not force us to use "X" (hint,hint). > > And thanks Steven!!! > > Regards, > Klaus Hameyer > Burlington, VT (USA) > > > > >
