OK Jeremy, I archived my "D" drive and and I have six GB of free space now on it, I tried xosl loader with both *.iso files and the actual files and I get a "cant boot" error do I have to format the drive for linux? If so how do I do this, I have slackware 96 should I use the install disks or is there a better program? I sure hate to download another 100MB + file but if I must I will do it. I started out with the "D" dirve formated in fat32 and fat 16, even used another program FIPS and told the disk it was LInux but still no boot>
Please make my life easy and suggest another dn-load or suggestion to get me up and running on linux, is it possible to boot with the loader from "D"? --- Jeremy Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Friday 11 February 2005 06:06 pm, Kristin wrote: > > I have downloaded SLAX live CD, got it running > after I > > switched my mouse from com2 to the ps2 > port(Windows > > used to fail to load the mouse every other time on > > ps2) Still having some problems as my monitor goes > > into standby unless I boot to safe mode, but I > suppose > > I can work that out later. Anywho I am downloading > > Flightgear 0.9.8i496-1.tgz and the open AL TGZ > file. > > Now what do I have to do to install or compile? > > SLAX apparently creates a small ramdisk for just the > root filesystem > and mounts larger directories directly from the > read-only cd. > Check /etc/fstab to see what mount points are > mounted from the cd. > > To install FlightGear and its prerequisites you must > have suitable > writable medium (either a harddisk partition or a > usb flashdisk > (I purchased a 512 meg Lexar jump drive from > Wal-Mart for $50 > but a 256 meg model can be had for $30 and 128 meg > for $20) > > Probably you will have to install to a harddisk > partition in order > to have enough room. My FlightGear + Atlas + scenery > for > the GrandCanyon, Mid-Atlantic, and SanFrancisco > takes up nearly a half gig: > > $du -h /usr/share/FlightGear/ > 427M /usr/share/FlightGear/ > > There are numerous howtos on making room for a Linux > partition. > An adequate howto is > http://linux-sxs.org/administration/dboot.html > > Once you have a linux installation on a permanent > writable medium > then you will have to install SDL SimGear fgfs-base > openal > if they aren't already provided in the SLAX livecd. > Look at the slackware > site to see how to install pre-compiled binaries for > your distro. On a > Debian-based distro one might issue a command such > as > $ aptget SDL SimGear fgfs-base opena1 > which would download and install the required > compiled libraries and programs. > One could also use KDE gui package manager which > includes support for > RedHat's rpm and Debian's apt. > > On a source-based distro one could simply do > for sorcerer: $ cast FlightGear > for gentoo: $emerge FlightGear > > which would automatically download all the source > code for FlightGear > and all its prerequisites and compile and install > all the software in > the correct order. On my system FlightGear requires > directly or indirectly > some 64 prerequisites: > > $ augur arof FlightGear > Xf100 Xfcyr Xfenc Xfnts Xfscl > alsa-lib audiofile db ed expat > fgfs-base flex gawk gdbm gmp > jpeg libmad libogg libtool > m4 nasm pkgconfig > readline sed slang tcl > zlib esound ncurses > Linux-PAM libvorbis > attr bison glib glib-v1.2 > freetype libid3tag libpng > gpm acl madplay DirectFB > coreutils perl autoconf openssl > XFree86 automake aalib-dev > gtk+-v1.2 tk glut Python plib > tiff metakit cups SimGear libmng > qt-x11-free arts SDL smpeg openal > > _______________________________________________ > Flightgear-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-users > 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - Easier than ever with enhanced search. Learn more. http://info.mail.yahoo.com/mail_250 _______________________________________________ Flightgear-users mailing list [email protected] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-users 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d
