On Thu, Nov 23, at 09:10:52AM, Kerry Mayes wrote:
> I am using "MySlax" to create (and recreate) the system. I'm using a
> windoze version (not sure if there is a linux version) and it calls
> the windoze format command, so I'm formating the stick as fat32....
if you installed slax onto the usb to use the fat32 filesystem then
it should work alright as slax installs its files as .mo files which
are "containers" like gzip files.
I have looked at Slax 5.1.7.6 Standard Edition and it has a script
"make_disk.bat" to install to fat32 usb.
Here are a few suggestions -
How much ram memory do you have? the access to /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1
may be running out of space.
'free' command displays mem and swap size.
mcedit /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1 (edit rc.inet1 in console without
starting X with startx)
does fluxbox freeze like kde?
set up a virtual memory "swap" file on the usb with the
'fileswap /mnt/sda1' command. (check the path for this)
enter "nohotplug" boot parameter, could be a hardware detect problem.
Have a look thru /etc/rc.d/rc.modules and check for a better module
(driver) for the ethernet card than what hotplugging provides.
the ethernet card is identified with the 'lspci' command.
Also what did you put in rc.inet1? the slackware norm is to put
anything extra in rc.local unless the command is already used
in rc.inet1. That way when you do an upgrade all of the changes
for etc are easy to find.
You may have loaded something in rc.inet1 that is causing the freeze.
For manually configuration of the network (not dhcpcd as in rc.inet1)
something like the following goes in rc.local.
ifconfig eth0 down # to drop any existing settings
ifconfig eth0 123.123.123.123 netmask 255.255.255.0
route add default gateway 123.123.123.1
echo "nameserver 123.123.123.10" >> /etc/resolv.conf
hth,
keith.
