Nicholas, There are a lot of smallinuxen outthere. I don't know if you're familiar with http://www.linuxstart.com/distributions/mini/index.html, but there are...
Jeu Coumans
small_linux@...
Sep 1, 2000 7:42 am
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thanks for your response.. will digets and revert.. regards nick...
nick.rogers@...
Sep 1, 2000 7:47 am
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Trying to install some software, I accidently did a 'more' on a file which appeared to be a binary. After this event, the output on the screen were not the...
Fam. Coumans
small_linux@...
Sep 7, 2000 9:41 am
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I have recently downloaded Small Linux fron the Internet to use with a 386 with 4MB RAM and a 120MB disk and a 3com 3c905 16bit ethernetcard. I must admit that...
a.stringer@...
Sep 11, 2000 11:13 pm
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... I cannot really shed any light, but I can give some more info and some guesses. By the way, I just installed smalllinux this past weekend on 486 NEC laptop...
Duane Clark
dclark@...
Sep 12, 2000 2:40 am
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... installer ... Since I didn't want to reinstall Small Linux completely in order to get a running system again, I had to find what specific actions had to be...
Jeu Coumans
small_linux@...
Oct 2, 2000 12:48 pm
300
... proc (rw)' 40 times! As far as I can get on the many '/proc' lines when using 'mount', I suspect there is strange thing going on with the file '/etc/mtab'....
Jeu Coumans
small_linux@...
Oct 2, 2000 12:56 pm
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... Not shutting down properly, will invoke the EXT2-fs warning. It's recommended to run e2fsck. Getting this program from Slackware, installing and running...
Jeu Coumans
small_linux@...
Oct 4, 2000 12:34 pm
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Hi all ! A friend gave me his "old" pc[P120,HD 80Mb,RAM 24Mb]. I want to install linux but my problem is : the floppy disk drive is 720Ko and there is no way...
Gauthier SEGALEN
gsegalen@...
Oct 5, 2000 8:30 am
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... Is the drive a 3.5" or 5.25"? As I read your description, it is a Pentium machine, is this correct? You can purchase a 1440 3.5" floppy drive for pennies...
Dale A. Raby
daleraby@...
Oct 5, 2000 11:05 am
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... yes , it's a pentium machine with a 3.5"/720Kb floppy drive ... ... well , it's not as easy as it looks : this computer is an IBM ThinkPad. So hardware is...
Gauthier SEGALEN
gsegalen@...
Oct 5, 2000 12:27 pm
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... I just checked the specifications on your machine and found that it comes with a 1.44 MB floppy drive. Even the earlier 486 Think Pads came with the 1.44 ...
Dale A. Raby
daleraby@...
Oct 5, 2000 1:22 pm
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... this floppy drive is an external drive. there is no internal floppy drive. ... well , the bios has no function like changing type of floppy drive ... what...
Gauthier SEGALEN
gsegalen@...
Oct 5, 2000 2:32 pm
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... Well, creating an install disk is fairly simple, but varies a bit with the distribution. Mostly, it is a matter of following the instructions the ...
Dale A. Raby
daleraby@...
Oct 5, 2000 5:27 pm
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... install linux ... way to boot ... Maybe it's possible to create a M$-Dos bootable floppy (720K) with a driver for your CD-ROM drive and install a...
linux@...
Oct 5, 2000 7:56 pm
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Sorry about the delay as I get this in digest format... May I suggest checking out e-bay. I got a 400MB hard drive AND a 1.44 floppy for $5, $7.50 after...
Bishop Jud
jud_bishop@...
Oct 6, 2000 1:27 pm
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Hello to all of You, I am by no means an expert on linux, there is also no way to justify the time spent trying to install linux on my IBM Thinkpad 340CSE with...
samuel gutmann
sgutman@...
Oct 6, 2000 6:52 pm
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Hi all ! What happens if You stick in a "normal" 1.44HDD disk. It is hard to belive such a strange thing on that machine. With that Thinkpad You can go ...
samuel gutmann
sgutman@...
Oct 6, 2000 6:52 pm
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Hello all - I've downloaded the source to tinyX (X331servonly.tgz) and unpackaged everything. I noticed first off that the documentation (INSTALL.TXT) still...
Stan Chang
s4chang@...
Oct 6, 2000 8:37 pm
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I think I found a way to get it to work. I hacked together 3 720k images. 1 boot, and 2 root disks that are loaded into ramdisk. I don't have any 720k...
Orson Jones
orson@...
Oct 7, 2000 5:04 pm
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I found another way that might work better. Install Slackware! See the FAQ about installing without a floppy. ...
Orson Jones
orson@...
Oct 7, 2000 6:24 pm
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Samuel, Thanks for helping. If I get your message right, all problems start at lilo.conf? This is my fstab: /dev/hda2 swap swap defaults...
Jeu Coumans
small_linux@...
Oct 8, 2000 10:19 pm
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Hello Jeu(is that right), that lilo.conf looks alright to me. What is definitly out of the ordinary, is that very first slash on the 'proc' line in that...
samuel gutmann
sgutman@...
Oct 9, 2000 8:04 pm
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Samuel, I'm using the 0.72 disks. I don't know which kernel version is used on these disks. I have a SuSe 6.2 available. I do use this box to see whats...
Jeu Coumans
small_linux@...
Oct 10, 2000 8:16 pm
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Hi folks, there is of course no way that I am looking at this *%ç&/"+?`=*...... But, this phenomena is easy fixed -- cd in the /bin dir and type as follows: ...
samuel gutmann
sgutman@...
Oct 15, 2000 8:33 am
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Hello all - I copied version 0.7.2 to the harddisk and looked at it. These boot and shutdown scripts are lacking. There is no easy way to get this fixed. Use...
samuel gutmann
sgutman@...
Oct 15, 2000 8:33 am
320
Now that I have a working copy of small linux on my hd, I am trying to get the networking working. I have a 3com 3c509 which is detected and the mac address is...
a.stringer@...
Oct 15, 2000 8:24 pm
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Hello helpful ones.... Other than an Xserver, what else do I need to get X up and running? I got the server only code to compile, but I'm quite certain I'm...
Stan Chang
s4chang@...
Oct 17, 2000 6:01 pm
322
I've got a 386 sx 25 machine (w/ 387 coprocessor... 4 megs of ram) I'm hoping to run this machine as a small web server. What I'm looking for is any sort of...
