On Tue, 27 Aug 2002, Luis A. Loeff wrote: > Trying to decide which distribution is a pain. I got the CD's for > Red Hat 7.3 but after seeing it was going to take 2 Gb of my 4.3 Gb > drive I halted the install. I searched for a smaller distro. > I came up with Zipslack which takes about 100 Meg of your drive. > This distro is text based stuff and doesn't even comes with X-Windows > but can be added if one so wishes.
Red Hat 6.2 can be put onto ~130MB... that includes X. > As my main interest in Linux is learning and using it as a work-station > and not a server, it seemed reasonable for starting. one additional > advantage (or disadavantage) of Zipslack is that it installs on a regular > DOS partition (UMSDOS). That's definitely a disadvantage. UMSDOS makes Linux run slower, as well as fragmenting, and sometimes leaving extra data blocks around. Do a chkdisk (sp?) and see what it looks like. > I can download an archive for Linux in DOS > or Windows, then move it to /tmp dir in Linux for opening later. You can do the same with a DOS partition and an ext2 partition too. Linux reads (& writes to) fat partitions. > I can also edit all Linux scripts (batches) in DOS if I so desire. Ok, there's one... > I then looked at browsing. Zipslack came with Lynx, and although I enjoy > using Lynx, I much rather use arachne. Links is like lynx but with support for https, tables, and frames. If you like text browsing, you might prefer it. > So I downloaded Arachne for > Linux using Arachne for DOS, moved it to /tmp and in Linux used pkgtool > to install arachne. > > The first thing I notice when installing arachne is that it comes with > 2 executables: arachne-ggi and arachne-svgalib > > Arachne-svgalib seemed to execute right away although with some problems. > but Arachne-ggi crashed the system right away. I then discovered that I > ought to have ggi and gii libraries installed in order to work. > I don't even know if ggi works with X windows or not. GGI *only* works with X-windows. This is the only way I'll run Arachne on Linux. > Arachne-svgalib starts with some default values for vgaconfig and so far I > have been unable to find a .conf file for svgalib 1.4.3 where to adjust > some parameters. Did you look at /etc/vga/libvga.config ? > but one problem showed up: the mouse moved very little > which pointed to Hmmm... the rest of your message evaporated. But, the mouse will act strange if you don't have svgalib configured properly. -- Steve Ackman http://twoloonscoffee.com (Need green beans?) http://twovoyagers.com (glass, linux & other stuff)
