On 11/28/18 9:56 AM, Rich Shepard wrote:
On Wed, 28 Nov 2018, Dick Steffens wrote:
If you created an initrd (with mkinitrd) then you will
need a new one.
I don't recall doing that myself. But since the machine booted up,
I'm assuming I'm good.
Dick,
Slackware has two types of bootable
On Wed, 28 Nov 2018, Dick Steffens wrote:
If you created an initrd (with mkinitrd) then you will
need a new one.
I don't recall doing that myself. But since the machine booted up, I'm
assuming I'm good.
Dick,
Slackware has two types of bootable files: vmlinuz-generic and
vmlinuz-huge.
On 11/28/18 9:32 AM, Dave Lien - W7DAL wrote:
Dick - I've been watching this saga with great interest and glad your
persistence paid off. Hopefully you can find time to distill your
findings into a nice simple set of A, B, C installation instructions
so others (like me) can bypass these
On 11/28/18 9:29 AM, King Beowulf wrote:
Glad to help. Ben got busy otherwise he would have continued to assist.
I was working from home for a bit so "procrastinated". After 20+ yrs
with Slackware I still may not know the answers, but I have learned
where to go look!
When upgrade-all is
On 11/28/18 8:59 AM, Dick Steffens wrote:
> On 11/28/18 7:59 AM, Dick Steffens wrote:
>
>> slackpkg upgrade-all is still running, so I'll report back on the
>> success with Firefox after breakfast.
>
> Slackpkg finished and Firefox works as expected.
>
> Now on to making the computer look like
Dick - I've been watching this saga with great interest and glad your
persistence paid off. Hopefully you can find time to distill your
findings into a nice simple set of A, B, C installation instructions so
others (like me) can bypass these problems and give Slackware a try.
TNX. -Dave
On
On 11/28/18 7:59 AM, Dick Steffens wrote:
> On 11/27/18 11:03 PM, King Beowulf wrote:
---snip---
>
> Thanks. I have a little time this morning, and will continue working on
> getting things to look like I'd like, and making sure stuff works. I've
> got some stuff I want to move to this laptop
On 11/28/18 7:59 AM, Dick Steffens wrote:
slackpkg upgrade-all is still running, so I'll report back on the
success with Firefox after breakfast.
Slackpkg finished and Firefox works as expected.
Now on to making the computer look like I want it to.
--
Regards,
Dick Steffens
On 11/27/18 11:03 PM, King Beowulf wrote:
Dick,
I think I see the update issue. Package management in Slackware is not
like Debian/Ubuntu etc. It's a very manual process that requires much
user input. slackpkg only automates a few of these tasks. After
"update" did you "upgrade-all"? Otherwise
On 11/27/18 7:37 PM, Dick Steffens wrote:
> On 11/27/18 6:29 PM, King Beowulf wrote:
>> On 11/27/18 5:48 PM, Dick Steffens wrote:
>>> On 11/27/18 12:21 AM, King Beowulf wrote:
>> ...snip
Odd. if you are up to date you should see from package
zlib-1.2.11-x86_64-1_slack14.2
On 11/27/18 6:29 PM, King Beowulf wrote:
On 11/27/18 5:48 PM, Dick Steffens wrote:
On 11/27/18 12:21 AM, King Beowulf wrote:
...snip
Odd. if you are up to date you should see from package
zlib-1.2.11-x86_64-1_slack14.2
ls -l /usr/lib64 |grep libz.so
... libz.so -> libz.so.1.2.11
...
On 11/27/18 5:48 PM, Dick Steffens wrote:
> On 11/27/18 12:21 AM, King Beowulf wrote:
...snip
>> Odd. if you are up to date you should see from package
>> zlib-1.2.11-x86_64-1_slack14.2
>>
>> ls -l /usr/lib64 |grep libz.so
>> ... libz.so -> libz.so.1.2.11
>> ... libz.so.1 -> libz.so.1.2.11
>>
On 11/27/18 12:21 AM, King Beowulf wrote:
On 11/26/18 9:53 PM, Dick Steffens wrote:
On 11/26/18 6:58 PM, King Beowulf wrote:
<...>
I clicked on the Firefox icon in KDE and saw the little red firefox
bouncing on the screen. After about a minute or less, the bouncing
stopped, but Firefox was
On 11/26/18 9:53 PM, Dick Steffens wrote:
> On 11/26/18 6:58 PM, King Beowulf wrote:
>> <...>
>>> I clicked on the Firefox icon in KDE and saw the little red firefox
>>> bouncing on the screen. After about a minute or less, the bouncing
>>> stopped, but Firefox was not loaded.
>>>
>>> Looks like I
On 11/26/18 6:58 PM, King Beowulf wrote:
<...>
I clicked on the Firefox icon in KDE and saw the little red firefox
bouncing on the screen. After about a minute or less, the bouncing
stopped, but Firefox was not loaded.
Looks like I broke something.
in KDE, as a regular user (not root), open
On 11/26/18 5:01 PM, Dick Steffens wrote:
> On 11/26/18 3:41 PM, King Beowulf wrote:
>
>> Hmmm... Firefox shouldn't try to sync or do anything on the network when
>> launching. The version installed is old. You should update to the
>> newest one via slackpkg.
>
> I'm logged in as root.
>
> I
On 11/26/18 3:41 PM, King Beowulf wrote:
Hmmm... Firefox shouldn't try to sync or do anything on the network when
launching. The version installed is old. You should update to the
newest one via slackpkg.
I'm logged in as root.
I ran slackpkg search firefox.
It returned [ upgrade ]
On 11/26/18 1:30 PM, Dick Steffens wrote:
> On 11/26/18 11:43 AM, Dick Steffens wrote:
>> I switched from KDE to xfce to try it out. Then I started looking into
>> how to install the programs I use. First I started up Firefox. I
>> checked the box that makes Firefox my default browser. The mouse
On 11/26/18 11:43 AM, Dick Steffens wrote:
I switched from KDE to xfce to try it out. Then I started looking into
how to install the programs I use. First I started up Firefox. I
checked the box that makes Firefox my default browser. The mouse and
track point stopped responding, and the screen
On 11/26/18 11:53 AM, King Beowulf wrote:
You will want to use the mirror selector to help balance the bandwidth
on the servers. It will select the best mirror for your geographic
location as well as load balance. In /etc/slackpkg/mirrors un-comment
# USE MIRRORS.SLACKWARE.COM (DO NOT USE FTP
On 11/26/18 7:11 AM, Dick Steffens wrote:
> On 11/26/18 5:49 AM, Rich Shepard wrote:
>> On Sun, 25 Nov 2018, Dick Steffens wrote:
>>
>>> Install completed successfully.
>>> Logged in as root.
>>> Ran halt.
>>> Machine powered down.
>>> Will start again tomorrow.
>>
>> Dick,
>>
>> Glad it all
On 11/26/18 5:49 AM, Rich Shepard wrote:
When you again have time for it, go to /etc/slackpkg/ and edit the
mirrors
file to uncomment either the ftp or https address for
slackware.osuosl.org.
Then, from the command line as root run 'slackpkg update' and 'slackpkg
upgrade-all'.
Done.
I
On 11/26/18 5:49 AM, Rich Shepard wrote:
On Sun, 25 Nov 2018, Dick Steffens wrote:
Install completed successfully.
Logged in as root.
Ran halt.
Machine powered down.
Will start again tomorrow.
Dick,
Glad it all worked ... finally!
Me, too. Once I get the laptop set up with all the stuff
On 11/25/18 6:18 PM, Dick Steffens wrote:
I'm up to package installation. I chose the preselected defaults, and
full mode, which installs without prompting. It is proceeding. I'm
proceeding to supper and tonight's football game.
Install completed successfully.
Logged in as root.
Ran halt.
Beware - this is intended to be funny, but factual post, I cannot help
it! This post is based on my speculation, not factual observation.
Difficulties with creating bootable disk, especially when using GUIs,
are often caused by a defective mouse operator. When USB is plugged in,
GUI tends to
On Sun, 25 Nov 2018, Ben Koenig wrote:
You can read the TXT files with any text editor. Ubuntu usually has Gedit
in the menu which will work fine. On the commandline you can use 'less'.
Or less which is a common page reader.
Rich
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On 11/25/18 5:33 PM, Dick Steffens wrote:
sudo dd if=~/Desktop/slackware64-14.2-install-dvd.iso of=/dev/sdc bs=1M
It's still running, so I'm guessing it's doing its thing. I'll report
back after it finishes.
dick@ENU-1:~$ sudo dd if=~/Desktop/slackware64-14.2-install-dvd.iso
of=/dev/sdc
On 11/25/18 4:52 PM, Ben Koenig wrote:
Make sure that /dev/sdc exists, reinsert the USB stick to get it to
show up.
In the event there's something wrong with the USB stick, I decided to
try a different one. This one currently has a Linux Mint 19 live image
on it. When I plug it in, I get
On 11/25/18 4:52 PM, Ben Koenig wrote:
You can read the TXT files with any text editor. Ubuntu usually has Gedit
in the menu which will work fine. On the commandline you can use 'less'.
Well, of course it works, now. Earlier I got an error message that the
file README_USB.TXT was a binary
You can read the TXT files with any text editor. Ubuntu usually has Gedit
in the menu which will work fine. On the commandline you can use 'less'.
The problem here is different. You got a message that /dev/sdc does not
exist or is not readable. Also, the DVD you downloaded should take a while
to
On 11/25/18 4:07 PM, Ben Koenig wrote:
Slow it down. There are instructions on the ISO to write it to a USB stick.
If you mount the iso you can read about your options in the
usb-and-pxe-installers folder on the installation media.
There are a few different options.
- raw DD
- using the iso2usb
Slow it down. There are instructions on the ISO to write it to a USB stick.
If you mount the iso you can read about your options in the
usb-and-pxe-installers folder on the installation media.
There are a few different options.
- raw DD
- using the iso2usb script on the iso.
It sounds like your
On Sun, 25 Nov 2018, Rich Shepard wrote:
I'm creating a 4.4G .iso from the distribution dvd. Will send you the URL
when uploaded. Use xcdroast (or ubuntu equivalent) to burn it on a dvd.
Then install slackware from that.
Dick,
Well, I created the file using
dd if=/dev/cdrom
On Sun, 25 Nov 2018, Rich Shepard wrote:
I have the 14-2 distribution DVD (both 32- and 64-bit versions) and can
either loan it to you or learn how to create an .iso from it, upload that
to fileconvoy.com, and pass the URL to you for downloading.
I'm creating a 4.4G .iso from the
On Sun, 25 Nov 2018, Dick Steffens wrote:
Now what?
Dick,
I have the 14-2 distribution DVD (both 32- and 64-bit versions) and can
either loan it to you or learn how to create an .iso from it, upload that to
fileconvoy.com, and pass the URL to you for downloading.
Rich
The dd command completed. But when I try to boot it in the laptop I get:
ISOLINUX 4.07 2013-07-25 EHDD Copyright (c) 1994-2013 H. Peter Anvin et all
Unknown keyword in configuration file: (a mix of six characters, some Greek)
Unknown keyword in configuration file: (another mix of six characters,
On 11/25/18 2:24 PM, Rich Shepard wrote:
On Sun, 25 Nov 2018, Dick Steffens wrote:
dick@ENU-1:~$ sudo dd if=~/Desktop/slackware64-14.2-install-dvd.iso
of=/dev/sdc
dd: failed to open '/dev/sdc': No medium found
dick@ENU-1:~$
What am I missing this time?
I will go out on a limb and suggest
On 11/25/18 1:46 PM, Dick Steffens wrote:
I have the .iso file. From the instructions at
https://www.slackwiki.com/Install_Slackware_Using_A_USB_Flash_Drive, I
see that should us dd. To determine where the USB stick is located I
plugged it in on my Ubuntu machine and ran mount.
/dev/sdc1 on
On Sun, 25 Nov 2018, Dick Steffens wrote:
dick@ENU-1:~$ sudo dd if=~/Desktop/slackware64-14.2-install-dvd.iso
of=/dev/sdc
dd: failed to open '/dev/sdc': No medium found
dick@ENU-1:~$
What am I missing this time?
I will go out on a limb and suggest you mount the usb drive on /mnt/hd
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