Hi,
Just thought I would let the group know that I have the latest peanut linux
'small' iso downloaded and can burn anyone a disc if they want to try it. The
so called small iso unzips to the hard drive to about 350 megabytes.
Has KDE2 and E v16.5, X Windows 4.2.0, Kernel 2.5.0 with USB support (Sawfish
should install and use Es librarys but I haven't tried it yet) . It now
comes with ReiserFS and Ext3 file systems option. For full details see
http://www.ibiblio.org/peanut/ I have installed this version and it is
interesting to play around with a different setup system. You just type:
'setup' in console mode which then opens a menu for x86config, sndconfig,
etc, etc.
BTW I recommend the two floppy boot discs that can be made of of the install
CD or downloaded directly from the peanut site. Documentation is there how
to make them using DOS or linux. With these two discs one can boot in to any
distro you may have on your HDD. Great if you have removed lilo or lost
your normal bootup utility. On these two discs you can run fdisk and Cfdisk,
mkdosfs and mke2fs, and most likely there are others utilities that I haven't
found yet.
If anyone is interested get back to me off list before the next meeting so I
can bring a disc along for you. Or you could pick one up from my work in
Sydenham, but let me know you want one first. ($5 )
Nick Elder
