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Old June 8th 10, 01:27 PM posted to comp.os.linux.setup,alt.comp.linux,alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt
RayLopez99
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Default Got it working! First post from inside Damn Small Linux! Need morehelp pls

OK, live and learn. Repost since my first post got lost when Firefox
unexpectedly disappeared from my Linux screen. But not blaming Linux
(Damn Small Linux) since I have a Pentium II with 1 GB (!) hd and a
few sticks of RAM. Can't expect much.

Anyway, like I was saying I did get the Linux box connected to the
internet, using the ethernet card, and both Windows and Linux boxes
are working as I type this through the same ADSL modem. Nice. A
loose cable was one problem, but the posters that predicted I would
not need to install software drivers were correct.

I need help though--just noticed something, why does Beever (text
editor) do hard carrage return line breaks instead of wrapping? oh
well-- on how to install new programs in Linux, in case I need to
upgrade from the present Firefox 1.0.6.

I need help on how to move files using the 'emelfm' file manager--or
command prompts--from say the CD (which I mounted but I cannot see
through the file manager--I thought the /cdrom directory was it but
it's a hard drive directory) to the HD--and which folder would I unzip
(.tar? ) and/or compile (how?) and/or place the binaries (hard return
by Beaver 0.2.7 again! I wonder if this will look like kaka when I
cut and paste it into Google Groups--we'll see) in which folder?

Stuff like that. Any help or pointers appreciated. I figure if I
study Linux a half hour a day, after 6 months I should be were I was
in DOS about 20 years ago, but no matter, it's progress.

BTW the user who will get this machine (or rather, one nearly like it)
is only going to surf the net and do docs on the net (Google apps). Do
I need faster hardware and/or a more newer version of Firefox to do
Google apps? She types at most 1 page letters, so I say no. Already
the disk thrashing is a bit noisy and slow on this machine, but
actually I'm pleasantly surprised, kind of like the pleasant surprise
(no spell check in beavor? Lol) you get from not getting food
poisoning at a greasy spoon interstate cafe when on a road trip. Hard
return again.

My system info below--for you doubters. Hopefully no personal
information there, but with Linux you never know when your security is/
will be compromised. And do I need a virus program and/or firewall
now? I am surfing naked. This is OK in Linux land, right? Any
advice sincerely appreciated.

PS--how to check the hard drive for errors? What command? I notice
in the report below a few bad sectors; probably they are oK physically
but need to be rewritten. Also since I only have a 1 GB HD I don't
want to load this machine with too much bloatware. Thanks again.

PPs--hard returns did not show up in copy-and-paste, thankfully, and I
notice, curiously, that Windows keyboard shortcuts like "Cntrl + home"
to go to the top of a page work in Linux...interesting.

RL


dsl-4.2.5 Mon Jun 7 15:25:27 2010
processor : 0
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 5
model : 2
model name : Pentium 75 - 200
stepping : 6
cpu MHz : 99.844
fdiv_bug : no
hlt_bug : no
f00f_bug : yes
coma_bug : no
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 1
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr mce cx8
bogomips : 199.06

total: used: free: shared: buffers: cached:
Mem: 46858240 38248448 8609792 0 1015808 17588224
Swap: 0 0 0
MemTotal: 45760 kB
MemFree: 8408 kB
MemShared: 0 kB
Buffers: 992 kB
Cached: 17176 kB
SwapCached: 0 kB
Active: 10420 kB
Inactive: 7788 kB
HighTotal: 0 kB
HighFree: 0 kB
LowTotal: 45760 kB
LowFree: 8408 kB
SwapTotal: 0 kB
SwapFree: 0 kB
# Insert nameservers here
# nameserver 127.0.0.1
nameserver 206.13.28.12
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)

soundcore 3428 0 (autoclean)
cloop 39364 0 (unused)
nls_cp437 4348 0 (autoclean)
nls_iso8859-1 2844 1 (autoclean)
reiserfs 169584 0 (autoclean)
ext3 64388 0 (autoclean)
jbd 46804 0 (autoclean) [ext3]
ntfs 50944 0 (autoclean)
msdos 4684 0 (autoclean)
serial 52196 0 (autoclean)
mousedev 3832 1
hid 22788 0 (unused)
input 3168 0 [mousedev hid]
ieee1394 183300 0
usb-ohci 18120 0 (unused)
usbcore 58240 1 [hid usb-ohci]
pcmcia_core 39840 0
apm 9736 1
ide-cd 28768 0
ide-scsi 9264 0
rtc 7004 0 (autoclean)
00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C585VP [Apollo VP1/
VPX] (rev 10)
00:07.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586/A/B PCI-to-ISA
[Apollo VP] (rev 02)
00:07.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/
VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 02)
00:08.0 USB Controller: ALi Corporation USB 1.1 Controller (rev 03)
00:08.3 USB Controller: ALi Corporation USB 2.0 Controller (rev 01)
00:0b.0 VGA compatible controller: S3 Inc. ViRGE/DX or /GX (rev 01)
PID Uid VmSize Stat Command
1 root 76 S init [5]
2 root SW [keventd]
3 root SWN [ksoftirqd_CPU0]
4 root SW [kswapd]
5 root SW [bdflush]
6 root SW [kupdated]
56 root SW [kapmd]
67 root SW [khubd]
407 root 560 S /sbin/syslogd
421 dsl 1684 S -bash
422 root 508 S /sbin/getty 115200 tty2
423 root 508 S /sbin/getty 115200 tty3
424 root 508 S /sbin/getty 115200 tty4
443 dsl 1084 S /bin/sh /usr/X11R6/bin/startx
456 dsl 644 S xinit /home/dsl/.xinitrc -- /home/
dsl/.xserverrc
457 root 6836 S /usr/bin/X11/Xvesa -mouse /dev/input/mice -
screen 102
459 dsl 1396 S jwm
471 dsl 4684 S dillo /usr/share/doc/dsl/
getting_started.html
483 dsl 920 S torsmo
484 dsl 2012 S /usr/bin/dfm
485 dsl 1012 S dpid
486 dsl 4684 S dillo /usr/share/doc/dsl/
getting_started.html
487 dsl 880 S /usr/local/lib/dillo/dpi/file/file.dpi
489 dsl 880 S /usr/local/lib/dillo/dpi/file/file.dpi
729 dsl 2512 S dfm /home/dsl/.dfmdesk/Apps/System/
872 dsl 1432 S aterm -T PPPoE Config -e sudo -H /usr/sbin/
pppoeconf
875 root 1144 S /bin/bash /usr/sbin/pppoeconf
1147 root 760 S whiptail --title NO INTERFACE FOUND --clear
--yesno S
1152 dsl 3296 S emelfm
1222 dsl 3244 S /bin/lua /usr/local/bin/stats.lua
1244 dsl 996 S sh -c busybox ps | tee /tmp/stats.txt
stats.txt
1245 dsl 704 R busybox ps
1246 dsl 432 S tee /tmp/stats.txt
4Linux version 2.4.31 (root@box) (gcc version 2.95.4 20011002
(Debian prerelease)) #6 SMP Fri Oct 21 15:15:54 EDT 2005
6BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
4 BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 00000000000a0000 (usable)
4 BIOS-e820: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
4 BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 0000000003000000 (usable)
4 BIOS-e820: 00000000ffff0000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
50MB HIGHMEM available.
548MB LOWMEM available.
4On node 0 totalpages: 12288
4zone(0): 4096 pages.
4zone(1): 8192 pages.
4zone(2): 0 pages.
6DMI not present.
3ACPI: Unable to locate RSDP
4Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=Linux ro root=302 hda=scsi hdb=scsi
hdc=scsi hdd=scsi hde=scsi hdf=scsi hdg=scsi hdh=scsi apm=power-off
nomce noapic
6ide_setup: hda=scsi
6ide_setup: hdb=scsi
6ide_setup: hdc=scsi
6ide_setup: hdd=scsi
6ide_setup: hde=scsi
6ide_setup: hdf=scsi
6ide_setup: hdg=scsi
6ide_setup: hdh=scsi
4No local APIC present or hardware disabled
6Initializing CPU#0
4Detected 99.844 MHz processor.
4Console: colour dummy device 80x25
4Calibrating delay loop... 199.06 BogoMIPS
6Memory: 45616k/49152k available (1386k kernel code, 3152k reserved,
567k data, 144k init, 0k highmem)
6Dentry cache hash table entries: 8192 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
6Inode cache hash table entries: 4096 (order: 3, 32768 bytes)
6Mount cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
6Buffer cache hash table entries: 1024 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
4Page-cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
5Intel Pentium with F0 0F bug - workaround enabled.
7CPU: After generic, caps: 000001bf 00000000 00000000 00000000
7CPU: Common caps: 000001bf 00000000 00000000 00000000
6Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
6Checking for popad bug... OK.
4POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
4mtrr: v1.40 (20010327) Richard Gooch )
4mtrr: detected mtrr type: none
7CPU: After generic, caps: 000001bf 00000000 00000000 00000000
7CPU: Common caps: 000001bf 00000000 00000000 00000000
4CPU0: Intel Pentium 75 - 200 stepping 06
4per-CPU timeslice cutoff: 160.52 usecs.
5SMP motherboard not detected.
5Local APIC not detected. Using dummy APIC emulation.
4Waiting on wait_init_idle (map = 0x0)
4All processors have done init_idle
6ACPI: Subsystem revision 20040326
6ACPI: Interpreter disabled.
6PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfb470, last bus=0
6PCI: Using configuration type 1
6PCI: Probing PCI hardware
4PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00)
6PCI: Via IRQ fixup
6Activating ISA DMA hang workarounds.
6isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
6isapnp: Card 'OPTi Audio 16'
6isapnp: 1 Plug & Play card detected total
6Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4
6Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
4Initializing RT netlink socket
4Starting kswapd
5VFS: Disk quotas vdquot_6.5.1
6vesafb: framebuffer at 0xe0000000, mapped to 0xc380d000, size 2048k
6vesafb: mode is 1024x768x16, linelength=2048, pages=0
6vesafb: protected mode interface info at c000:596b
6vesafb: scrolling: redraw
6vesafb: directcolor: size=0:5:6:5, shift=0:11:5:0
4Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 128x48
6fb0: VESA VGA frame buffer device
6Detected PS/2 Mouse Port.
4pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured
6Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
6FDC 0 is an 8272A
4RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 4096K size 1024
blocksize
6Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00beta4-2.4
6ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with
idebus=xx
6VP_IDE: IDE controller at PCI slot 00:07.1
6VP_IDE: chipset revision 2
6VP_IDE: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
6VP_IDE: VIA vt82c586 (rev 02) IDE MWDMA16 controller on pci00:07.1
6 ide0: BM-DMA at 0x6000-0x6007, BIOS settings: hdaio, hdbio
6 ide1: BM-DMA at 0x6008-0x600f, BIOS settings: hdcio, hddio
4hda: Seagate Technology 1275MB - ST31276A, ATA DISK drive
4hdb: ST33240A, ATA DISK drive
4hdc: CD-ROM CDU311, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
4ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
4ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
4hda: attached ide-disk driver.
6hda: 2502308 sectors (1281 MB), CHS=620/64/63
4hdb: attached ide-disk driver.
6hdb: 6303024 sectors (3227 MB), CHS=781/128/63
6Partition check:
6 hda: hda1 hda5 hda2
6 hdb: hdb1 hdb5 hdb6
4ide: late registration of driver.
6SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00
3kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k scsi_hostadapter, errno =
2
3kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k scsi_hostadapter, errno =
2
6Initializing Cryptographic API
6NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
6IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP
6IP: routing cache hash table of 512 buckets, 4Kbytes
6TCP: Hash tables configured (established 4096 bind 4096)
6NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0.
4VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
6Freeing unused kernel memory: 144k freed
6Real Time Clock Driver v1.10f
4hdc: attached ide-scsi driver.
6scsi0 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices
4 Vendor: SONY Model: CD-ROM CDU311 Rev: 3.0i
4 Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02
4Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
4sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 8x/8x xa/form2 cdda tray
6Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12
6apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x07 (Driver version 1.16)
6Linux Kernel Card Services 3.1.22
6 options: [pci] [cardbus] [pm]
6Intel ISA PCIC probe: not found.
6Databook TCIC-2 PCMCIA probe: not found.
6usb.c: registered new driver usbdevfs
6usb.c: registered new driver hub
6usb-uhci.c: $Revision: 1.275 $ time 11:56:04 Aug 29 2005
6usb-uhci.c: High bandwidth mode enabled
6usb-uhci.c: v1.275:USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver
6usb.c: deregistering driver usbdevfs
6usb.c: deregistering driver hub
6usb.c: registered new driver usbdevfs
6usb.c: registered new driver hub
6usb-ohci.c: USB OHCI at membase 0xc3a45000, IRQ 11
6usb-ohci.c: usb-00:08.0, ALi Corporation USB 1.1 Controller
6usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
6hub.c: USB hub found
6hub.c: 2 ports detected
4usbdevfs: remount parameter error
6hub.c: new USB device 00:08.0-1, assigned address 2
4usb.c: USB device 2 (vend/prod 0x192f/0x416) is not claimed by any
active driver.
6usb.c: registered new driver hiddev
6usb.c: registered new driver hid
6input: USB HID v1.11 Mouse [192f:0416] on usb1:2.0
6hid-core.c: v1.8.1 Andreas Gal, Vojtech Pavlik
6hid-core.c: USB HID support drivers
6mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
6Serial driver version 5.05c (2001-07-08) with MANY_PORTS SHARE_IRQ
SERIAL_PCI ISAPNP enabled
6ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
6ttyS01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
6ad1848/cs4248 codec driver Copyright (C) by Hannu Savolainen
1993-1996
5ad1848: No ISAPnP cards found, trying standard ones...
6MAD16 audio driver Copyright (C) by Hannu Savolainen 1993-1996
6CDROM Disabled.
3I/O, DMA and irq are mandatory
6ad1848/cs4248 codec driver Copyright (C) by Hannu Savolainen
1993-1996
5ad1848: No ISAPnP cards found, trying standard ones...
6MAD16 audio driver Copyright (C) by Hannu Savolainen 1993-1996
6CDROM Disabled.
3I/O, DMA and irq are mandatory
6ad1848/cs4248 codec driver Copyright (C) by Hannu Savolainen
1993-1996
5ad1848: No ISAPnP cards found, trying standard ones...
6MAD16 audio driver Copyright (C) by Hannu Savolainen 1993-1996
6CDROM Disabled.
3I/O, DMA and irq are mandatory
6ad1848/cs4248 codec driver Copyright (C) by Hannu Savolainen
1993-1996
5ad1848: No ISAPnP cards found, trying standard ones...
6MAD16 audio driver Copyright (C) by Hannu Savolainen 1993-1996
6CDROM Disabled.
3I/O, DMA and irq are mandatory
5NTFS driver v1.1.22 [Flags: R/W MODULE]
6Journalled Block Device driver loaded
3VFS: Can't find ext3 filesystem on dev ide0(3,5).
4VFS: Can't find ext2 filesystem on dev ide0(3,5).
4Unable to identify CD-ROM format.
4sh-2021: reiserfs_read_super: can not find reiserfs on ide0(3,5)
4FAT: bogus logical sector size 0
4VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev 03:05.
4FAT: bogus logical sector size 0
4VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev 03:05.
4FAT: Did not find valid FSINFO signature.
4Found signature1 0xdcae8021 signature2 0x33dd411a sector=47585.
4VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev 03:45.
4FAT: Did not find valid FSINFO signature.
4Found signature1 0xdcae8021 signature2 0x33dd411a sector=47585.
4VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev 03:45.
4cloop: Initializing cloop v2.01
6cloop: loaded (max 128 devices)
/dev/hda2 on / type ext2 (rw,errors=remount-ro)
/proc on /proc type proc (rw)
/dev/pts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw)
/proc/bus/usb on /proc/bus/usb type usbdevfs (rw,devmode=0666)
Filesystem Size Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda2 961.1M 126.8M 785.5M 14% /
LANG="C"
COUNTRY="us"
LANGUAGE="us"
CHARSET="iso8859-1"
KEYTABLE="us"
XKEYBOARD="us"
MOUSE_FULLNAME="USB Optical Mouse"
MOUSE_DEVICE="/dev/input/mice"
SOUND_FULLNAME="OPTi Audio 16:AUX0"
SOUND_DRIVER="mad16"
SOUND_FULLNAME="OPTi Audio 16:Game Port"
SOUND_DRIVER="mad16"
SOUND_FULLNAME="OPTi Audio 16:MPU401"
SOUND_DRIVER="mad16"
SOUND_FULLNAME="OPTi Audio 16:OPTi Audio 16"
SOUND_DRIVER="mad16"
XSERVER="XFree86"
XMODULE="s3virge"
XDESC="ViRGE/DX or /GX"
FLOPPY_FULLNAME='3.5" 1.44MB floppy drive'
FLOPPY_DEVICE="/dev/fd0"
FLOPPY_DRIVER="unknown"
BOOT_IMAGE=Linux
ro
root=302
hda=scsi
hdb=scsi
hdc=scsi
hdd=scsi
hde=scsi
hdf=scsi
hdg=scsi
hdh=scsi
apm=power-off
nomce
noapic
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Old June 8th 10, 02:35 PM posted to comp.os.linux.setup,alt.comp.linux,alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt
RayLopez99
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Default Got it working! First post from inside Damn Small Linux! Needmore help pls

On Jun 8, 3:27*pm, RayLopez99 wrote:
[]

I also want to install OpenOffice 1.0, which is the only thing that
will run on this old hardware...

On second thought, I think I'll recommend that only .RTF format be
used...that's good enough. "Beevor" and "Ted" are two RTF editors in
DamnSmallLinux that seem to work (though TED just crashed on me, when
I clicked on the "recently opened" link--you have to not use it and
simply use the 'open' menu--stuff like this is typical of amateur
slopware/ freeware, but you get what you pay for).

RL
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Old June 8th 10, 03:12 PM posted to comp.os.linux.setup,alt.comp.linux,alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt
J G Miller
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Default Got it working! First post from inside Damn Small Linux! Needmore help pls

On Tue, 08 Jun 2010 06:35:46 -0700, RayLopez99 wrote:

I also want to install OpenOffice 1.0, which is the only thing that will
run on this old hardware...


If you only need to prepare and read documents, have you considered
abiword instead?

http://www.abisource.COM/
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Old June 8th 10, 06:06 PM posted to comp.os.linux.setup,alt.comp.linux,alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt
John Doe
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Default Got it working! First post from inside Damn Small Linux! Need more help pls

RayLopez99 raylopez88 gmail.com wrote:

OK, live and learn. Repost since my first post got lost when
Firefox unexpectedly disappeared from my Linux screen. But not
blaming Linux (Damn Small Linux) since I have a Pentium II with
1 GB (!) hd and a few sticks of RAM. Can't expect much.

Anyway, like I was saying I did get the Linux box connected to
the internet, using the ethernet card, and both Windows and
Linux boxes are working as I type this through the same ADSL
modem. Nice.


Yeah, but why are you posting new and again cross posting this to
the homebuilt personal computer group.
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Old June 8th 10, 06:25 PM posted to alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt
Mike Easter
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Default Got it working! First post from inside Damn Small Linux! Needmore help pls

John Doe wrote:
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.setup, alt.comp.linux,
alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt

RayLopez99


Yeah, but why are you posting new and again cross posting this to
the homebuilt personal computer group.


If you are opposed to crossposting, as am I, then you shouldn't
crosspost at all yourself, including replies to crossposted messages.

A trollishly crossposted message doesn't deserve to have its
'newsgroups' line content respected -- which is part of the reason that
very very few messages should be crossposted in the first place and
approximately zero replies to such messages should be so crossposted.

--
Mike Easter
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Old June 9th 10, 09:08 AM posted to comp.os.linux.setup,alt.comp.linux,alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt
RayLopez99
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On Jun 8, 5:12*pm, J G Miller wrote:
On Tue, 08 Jun 2010 06:35:46 -0700, RayLopez99 wrote:
I also want to install OpenOffice 1.0, which is the only thing that will
run on this old hardware...


If you only need to prepare and read documents, have you considered
abiword instead?

* * * * http://www.abisource.COM/


Yes, I would like to try this program. Can you please tell me how to
install it? It would literally be my first Linux program I installed
(other than what I did with RHAT over 10 years ago, which I don't
remember). Would it, for example (I am using default directory names
that came with installation for Damn Small Linux) go under "/sbin"?
Do I log in under 'root' (http://www.linfo.org/root.html), then what,
drag and drop (i.e., copy) the executable binary I download from
abisource.com to what directory?

Thanks in advance,

RL
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Old June 9th 10, 10:01 AM posted to alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt
RayLopez99
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Default Got it working! First post from inside Damn Small Linux! Needmore help pls

On Jun 8, 8:25*pm, Mike Easter wrote:

If you are opposed to crossposting, as am I, then you shouldn't
crosspost at all yourself, including replies to crossposted messages.


Then are you opposed to SymLink (linking) files in Unix too?

RL
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Old June 9th 10, 02:15 PM posted to alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt
Mike Easter
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RayLopez99 wrote:
Mike Easter

If you are opposed to crossposting, as am I, then you shouldn't
crosspost at all yourself, including replies to crossposted messages.


Then are you opposed to SymLink (linking) files in Unix too?


I am talking about (not) crossposting news messages. I am not
interested in talking about SymLink. Or recipes and their
cross-referencing.

Do you have any intention whatsoever in determining the mobo and ram
potential and what is and is not populating which available ram slots in
this P54C comp3 DT desktop?


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Old June 9th 10, 03:04 PM posted to comp.os.linux.setup,alt.comp.linux,alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt
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On Wednesday, June 9th, 2010 at 01:08:22h -0700, RayLopez99 asked:

Yes, I would like to try this program. Can you please tell me how to
install it?


Abiword is available as a myDSL extension, so you install it through the
myDSL extensions framework.


Full instructions for how to install software available in the myDSL
extensions repository should be consulted at

http://www.damnsmalllinux.ORG/wiki/index.php/Installing_MyDSL_Extensions


A list of all the software available in the myDSL extensions repository
is available at

http://distro.ibiblio.ORG/pub/linux/distributions/damnsmall/mydsl/
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Old June 9th 10, 03:39 PM posted to comp.os.linux.setup,alt.comp.linux,alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt
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On Wed, 09 Jun 2010 01:08:22 -0700, RayLopez99 wrote:

On Jun 8, 5:12Â*pm, J G Miller wrote:
On Tue, 08 Jun 2010 06:35:46 -0700, RayLopez99 wrote:
I also want to install OpenOffice 1.0, which is the only thing that
will run on this old hardware...


If you only need to prepare and read documents, have you considered
abiword instead?

Â* Â* Â* Â* http://www.abisource.COM/


Yes, I would like to try this program. Can you please tell me how to
install it? It would literally be my first Linux program I installed
(other than what I did with RHAT over 10 years ago, which I don't
remember). Would it, for example (I am using default directory names
that came with installation for Damn Small Linux) go under "/sbin"? Do I
log in under 'root' (http://www.linfo.org/root.html), then what, drag
and drop (i.e., copy) the executable binary I download from
abisource.com to what directory?

Thanks in advance,

RL


Hey NoBalls - there is a reason that Linux distributions have
'repositories' and 'package managers'. This ain't MS - it's easy.
 




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