anarkissed wrote: > > I'd be thrilled with this guy's idea. One of the reasons > I've not been able to run X is that I can't get a driver to > work with my monitor.
OK, in the next day or two, I will put a pre-configured VGA setup file for X in the install-to-HD package. I will also re-write the instructions for X, so that people will be able to download the X packages and startx immediately (with the only configuration decision being the mouse port). > For me the solution would give hope if the system can run > on a 586 133 That's a better machine than mine. It will do fine. > and with less than a Gig total hard drive space BasicLinux would be happy with 10% of this. > and can be installed without a cd. No problem. The packages can be downloaded to a DOS directory and installed from there. Once BasicLinux is up and running, it can be used for downloading -or- you can continue to use DOS/Windows tools to download. BasicLinux is happy to install packages from a DOS partition to the Linux partition. > Like many I wish I could have a system with a fuctioning linux > on it so I would have somewhere to start learning. BasicLinux gives you a functioning CLI immediately. For a functioning GUI, you need to create a Linux partition, run the install-to-HD package, use the pkg command to install five X packages from Slackware 3.5 and do a one-line command to configure your mouse. Cheers, Steven
