I just finished the jblinux 2.2 install, and I like it a lot!
There's no documentation yet, but anyone who is not a brand new
escapee from Windows can figure it out. It looks much like (and is
probably derived from) Slackware. The kernel is 2.4.7 and glibc is
2.3.3. Here's what to do
1) Go to www.jblinux..net downloads
2) download the boot and root floppies and dd to floppy (you don't
need the third floppy unless you wand to do NFS installs). You can
also get rawrite.exe and create the floppies from Windows. Other
samples show extra parameters for dd, but I just used dd
if=/path/to/iso of=/dev/fd0.
3) Download the 2.2 iso image and (if you want) the extras iso
image. Total time on my cable connection about 4+ hours.
4) Burn the iso images. I used Windows, but your favorite linux
burner software will work, too.
5) Boot from boot floppy and mount root floppy when requested.,.
Load your cdrom.
6)Now you're in the installer (looking at lot like Slack, eh?).
Select Install from CD.
7). Now you get to choose your partition. You can run fdisk, if
needed. You get to choose from ext2fs, reiserfs, or xfs. Yeah!
Someone finally did it right. I chose xfs, since I haven't done
that before. I setup / and /boot partitions on existing partitions.
8) Choose what to install. I chose workstation and development
extras with KDE only. The full install is something like 1.8G.
Since I only allocated 2gig for my test partitions, I didn't do the
full install. Install and post-install setup took less than an
hour.
9) Now you are offered a Lilo setup. (I believe someone said that
xfs and grub aren't yet on good terms.) Since I consider a new
install writing to my mbr to be Russian roulette with six loaded
chambers, I selected the option to write to /dev/fd0.
10) Since I wrote Lilo to floppy, I declined the offer to create a
boot disk.
11) Reboot, and the final configuration will be done. Most
everything except printing is offered - language, keyboard, mouse,
networking, set a root password, graphical boot manager, XFree
setup.
12) Everything worked for me except XFree (4.1.0). The installer
is nice, but it didn't creae a usable XF86Config-4 file. No sweat
(thinks he), mount my gentoo partition and copy over the file I'm
currently using. Close, but no cigar. Something is different
about the X libaries setup. I had to edit the file they created,
strip out the mouse, monitor, and screen stuff, and then merge in
the mouse, monitor, and screen definitions from my gentoo system.
13) KDE (2.1.1) came right up, and I was able to add a normal user
via the system - users gui function.
14) Logged onto my normal user; then started Konqueror. Yep,
internet is working.
15) Started Kmail, and a few configuration strokes later, I was
reading mail. Note, if you try as many distros as I do, you have
the mail parameters written down.
16) There are a few things left to do - printing and CD-RW support
among them. Netscape is offered on the extras CD-ROM. I need to
bring over Opera and sylpheed and XFCE, but no hurry.
Try it and let me know what you think.
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Collins Richey
Denver areal
jblinux 2.2 KDE
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