[ snips ] On Sun, 30 Dec 2001 18:05:25 +0000 Peter Ruskin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Well, I read the posts from Ray, Collins and Ted with interest while > I was downloading with a 56K modem - 3 or 4 days. bummer! I shure love my cable connection! > INSTALLATION > My box has wintendo98 (disk 1), Mandrake 8.1 (disk 2), and Mandrake > Cooker (disk 4). Disk 3 was ready for ELX, formatted reiserfs using > Acronis OSS Disk Manager. The Mandrake disks are ext3. > > Custom install was impossible. The installer's kernel doesn't know > about ext3 Custom install was fine for me - my other distros are ext3. I just didn't tell the installer to mount these partitions. I also told the installer to forget about updating the mbr and to create a boot disk. The boot disk could only boot elx, but my normal mbr had lilo for my existing ext3 distros, so everything was cool. I'll be cloning my system to ext3 in a few days, once I have everything I need installed. < "ELX WELCOME'S YOU" BFD! If I had a nickel for every one of my typos, I'd be retired by now. > POST INSTALL > I have to boot using the floppy - with the hard disk I just get "LI". > I've run /sbin/lilo a couple of times - no error messages with -v > but still no good. After trying out elx, I booted from my gentoo distro (ext3 knowledgable), mounted the necessary partitions, and used it to update lilo. > > Important (for me) packages missing: > locales (installed --nodeps from Mandrake 8.1) > kde-i18n-de (installed OK from Mandrake 8.1) > kde-i18n-en_GB (installed OK from Mandrake 8.1) > kde-i18n-fr (installed OK from Mandrake 8.1) > gkrellm (installed OK from Mandrake 8.1) > rsync (installed OK from Mandrake 8.1) > sudo (installed OK from Mandrake 8.1) As you can see, updating with redhat/mandrake rpms is a breeze. I was able to add xfce and sylpheed and grub from rpms. > > Supermount works fine using /mnt/cdrom -> /dev/scd0 and /mnt/cdrw > -> /dev/scd1. I've moved on to my own monolithic 2.4.17 kernel, and I don't have whatever is needed for supermount yet, so I just altered the /etc/fstab entries to avoid error messages. Will investigate later. Since I know how to mount CDROMs and floppies, it's no big deal. > > I too have not got Webmin to start yet There's a note on the elx forum about needing to reinstall webmin. I haven't tried it, since I don't need webmin. > > By the way, I don't think it's anything like Mandrake. Probably not on second thought. "Mandrake" for me is the symbol of a distro that starts many dozens of daemons by default - just in case you ever want to try them out. Since I don't keep my PC running forever (average uptime is about 3 hours), I get bored waiting for them all to start. One of the first things I did with elx was to remove kudzu, webmin, httpd, linuxconf, and sendmail from the l3-5 startup scripts. YMMV. As you can see below, I'm also running my old favorites xfce and sylpheed, which dropped in from rpm with no complaints. I've posted an entry on the elx forum about adding xfce to the kdm session choices, if you're interested. Enjoy -- Collins Richey - Denver Area WWTLRD? - ELX-1 system k2.4.17+xfce+sylpheed _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
