Not that I remember if I ever succeeded.nitehawk wrote:Tried to get FreeBSD installed this weekend. No go. Pulling hair out.
But what if one try BSD out in a wm ware or VBox to get a glimpse into what them are at?
...wouldn't do much good. Couldn't even get to a decent desktop. I'll keep reading the "FreeBSD Handbook", though. I'll try again, when I can get the time,....and I'll either succeed,..or I'll just wait until PC-BSD 9 comes out. (It comes with several smaller desktop environments on the install DVD). And you will also be able to install either PC-BSD or FreeBSD off the DVD as well.nooby wrote:Not that I remember if I ever succeeded.nitehawk wrote:Tried to get FreeBSD installed this weekend. No go. Pulling hair out.
But what if one try BSD out in a wm ware or VBox to get a glimpse into what them are at?
SliTaz 3.0 is really nice... well, for my taste, it had almost exactly the things that I like and use, so I burnt the iso and used it almost completely stock for months. It creates a RAMdisk like Puppy, can be remastered, has good package management, et cetera. I love it.Lobster wrote:Slitaz I hear good things about - seemed OK, fast, but not as complete as Puppy, last time I looked . . .
You are brave! I've been tempted by FreeBSD in the past but have always been put off by the mountains of work involved.nitehawk wrote:...wouldn't do much good. Couldn't even get to a decent desktop. I'll keep reading the "FreeBSD Handbook", though. I'll try again, when I can get the time,....and I'll either succeed,..or I'll just wait until PC-BSD 9 comes out. (It comes with several smaller desktop environments on the install DVD). And you will also be able to install either PC-BSD or FreeBSD off the DVD as well.nooby wrote:Not that I remember if I ever succeeded.nitehawk wrote:Tried to get FreeBSD installed this weekend. No go. Pulling hair out.
But what if one try BSD out in a wm ware or VBox to get a glimpse into what them are at?
EDIT: Just got to a nice Gnome desktop in FreeBSD. But that's about it. Seems that you have to do mountains of CLI code to get the CD and DVDs to mount,...etc. etc. etc. etc. etc. Makes Slackware look like a walk in the park. Guess I'm just too spoiled to Puppy...(takes just minutes to get to a nice desktop and start computing.)
,,I may have to have a look at Frenzy. The only reason I am using Slackware,....is because of my disappointment over my favorite old standby distro VectorLinux taking soooooo long to release #7. I just gave up and tried Slackware,....and was quite surprised that I could actually get it working fairly well (and liking it). I discovered that a few of the apps from the Salix Linux repository will work in both Slackware,...and Wary 5.1.1 (Wine, for instance).Colonel Panic wrote: You are brave! I've been tempted by FreeBSD in the past but have always been put off by the mountains of work involved.
There is a FreeBSD-based live disk though, called Frenzy. It might be worth a look if you like the BSDs.
I'm disappointed with Vector 7.0 too. There's a serious bug in the installer which doesn't let you set a UK keyboard default when you install Vector from scratch, so you have to set it manually every time you boot it up.nitehawk wrote:,,I may have to have a look at Frenzy. The only reason I am using Slackware,....is because of my disappointment over my favorite old standby distro VectorLinux taking soooooo long to release #7. I just gave up and tried Slackware,....and was quite surprised that I could actually get it working fairly well (and liking it). I discovered that a few of the apps from the Salix Linux repository will work in both Slackware,...and Wary 5.1.1 (Wine, for instance).Colonel Panic wrote: You are brave! I've been tempted by FreeBSD in the past but have always been put off by the mountains of work involved.
There is a FreeBSD-based live disk though, called Frenzy. It might be worth a look if you like the BSDs.
But I have just about given up on Vector. I even discovered that they have changed the desktop,...and dropped the Nvidia driver at install. (I have my Nvidia working very well in Slackware, got the Xfce desktop going nicely,.....so I don't care anymore whether Vector comes out soon, or not).
laika ..
you have me curious about Slitaz,...I'll go have a look at their website.
If you have other "boot" then just rename it to slitazboottitle SliTaz cooking
kernel (hd0,0)/boot/bzImage rw root=/dev/null vga=normal
initrd (hd0,0)/boot/rootfs.gz
So I did log in as root, one get a choice if one want to log in as Tux so I change it to root and the password is then root obviously.title SliTaz cooking
kernel (hd0,0)/slitazboot/bzImage rw root=/dev/null vga=normal
initrd (hd0,0)/slitazboot/rootfs.gz
Nooby, "cooking" is their most current release between "stables." SliTaz 3.0 is the current stable; the latest cooking was released in May, IIRC, and 4.0 is under development. There are also the "flavors"...Nooby wrote:I tried to set it up so it has similar permissions and root things as Puppy! I downloaded it from cooking version? link.
Yes, those guys are Northern Europeans, I believe, so maybe the chances of finding Swedish was better?Nooby wrote: I guess I keep this Slitaz3 then it even do Swedish åäö €
Haha! No answer at all seems to be more likely there. I haven't used their forum much, because their 3.0 was so close to the perfect distribution for me. Midori crashed alot, and their was some trick to getting Flash working on FF, but everything else behaved nicely with me.Nooby wrote:But I don't want to join their forum and then get an angry "Read the fucking Manual answer thrown at me" I am too vulnerable to such jelling or barking and would have to lick my wounds for weeks to recover from the attack. Bitten once never go near a Dog house again
I never learned how At first, I booted from the 3.0 LiveCD and configured my DSL connection anew each session. Then I came upon that writeiso business in their Tazlito Manual - SliTaz Live Tool. That made a snapshot of my set-up as it existed at that moment. I burned the iso from that and use it to boot now, and have my desktop and browser of choice, plus no need to configure pppoe each time. But that's not a save file at all; I still manually save bookmarks and whatnot to files on a HDD or in the so-called cloud (Google Mail, Picasa, Ubuntu One). Because I play with different live distributions, I don't always bother with actual savefiles in the Puppy sense. I don't use a computer in such a way as requires me to save much.nooby wrote:Thanks. So how does one save to the HDD then. I mean persistence. How does one set up a save file sort of?
Ah, my ignorance shows itself I thought they were Swiss and lumped them in with Nordic types. Not to worry though, since for whatever reason they've got åäö for you!nooby wrote:Nope them are not Nordic them are proud guys from France or French speaking Switcherland something I doubt them care about åäö
I've heard good things about Crunchbang. Mint (also based on Ubuntu) is getting "difficult" IMO for anyone with an old computer and only 512 MB of RAM. I tried to install it on my machine but the installer hung when I was trying to set the timezonelowrider wrote:@topic
I've done a really crazy "Distrohopping" in the past. Going from all sort of Debian Derivatives to slackware, any kind of what uses E17, any Arch Distro i can get and forth and back... What i like most at the time are these minimalistic (in use of Ram) Distros like Archbang, Rexbang, Crunchbang (yeah, i am the type of guy that likes to be BANGED ). Now i am sticked to Crunchbang Linux because it is rocksolidstable and there is this huge Debian repository in the back... really like it.
Basic Linux is a minimalistic Slackware distro. It's the one I started out with, but I don't know if it's still being developed;harii4 wrote:I'm looking for an minimalistic slackware Distros .
Really like the slackware tools pkgtools, slapt-get and gslapt.
Thank you BIG_BASS for that - i'm hooked
For now its 3.02 "StarDrop" and TXZ_PUP - slackware with training wheels.
Good point, nooby! That method copies configurations for the particular hardware on which it's running at that time, so the resulting iso might not behave well on another machine with different hardware. Also, it copies whatever passwords and other information on the machine at that moment, which is something to consider from a privacy/security aspect.nooby wrote:It means that you could have it on a stick with you and it is already set up to go? Unless the hardware on that computer act up in some way.
laika wrote:
Also, there may be a boot option with SliTaz to instruct it to mount a home directory at boot. Maybe a knowlegeable person could make that an equivalent to a savefile? Read the splash screen or hit F5 (or is F6?) before she boots for more instruction.
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title SlitazX
find --set-root --ignore-floppies /slitaz/slitazx.lst
kernel /boot/bzimage rw root=/dev/null home=4039-E1EC autologin lang=en_US kmap=us vga=789 screen=1024x768x24
initrd /boot/rootfs.gz