Hi, The command you probably need is: mount /dev/hda1 /mnt then if that is sucessfully you can type: ls -l /mnt to see the files on your hard disk. If...
Steven G.
superant@...
May 11, 2000 3:45 pm
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Hi, Small Linux is not compiled for mult-threading. The link for compiling libc 5.0 on glibc machines is at: http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Glibc2-HOWTO-6.html ...
Steven G.
superant@...
May 11, 2000 3:58 pm
235
Hi, The present version of tinyX would not work with Red Hat 5.2, because tinyX is compiled for libc 5 and Red Hat 5.2 uses glibc. You have two possible ways...
Steven G.
superant@...
May 11, 2000 4:07 pm
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Hi - I'm trying to install small Linux on a IBM PS/2SX 486 with 4meg ram. I would like to install it on the 60 meg hard drive that it has. Using the standard...
Peter L. Vachuska
pvachusk@...
May 11, 2000 9:38 pm
237
Greetings, I am unfamiliar with the PS/2, however I have tried installing Small Linux on a PS/1. This failed miserably because the box actually boots through...
Brian Little
mordrin@...
May 11, 2000 10:00 pm
238
Dear Mr. G. ; I was able to mount the /dev/hda1 and utilize the cp command to copy the contents of the floppy to the hard drive partition. As happened to you,...
daleraby
daleraby@...
May 12, 2000 2:46 am
239
Hello, I have been reading your how to on hard drive installation of Small Linux. I was able to copy the root disk to the hard drive and boot up without the...
daleraby
daleraby@...
May 13, 2000 2:05 am
240
Hi, Montevista offers a off the shelf Linux Distro for embedded systems for PowerPC http://www.mvista.com/ TiVo offers for download the Linux kernel and tools...
Steven G.
superant@...
May 15, 2000 2:59 pm
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Hi, Here are answers to the question in the newsgroup: http://www.egroups.com/message/smalllinux/167? http://www.egroups.com/message/smalllinux/116? Good luck,...
Steven G.
superant@...
May 15, 2000 3:07 pm
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Well, that's all very well, but when I tried it on my 2mb machine it reported hundreds of library faults and took about half an hour to do an 'ls'. Does this...
William Palfreman
william@...
May 15, 2000 5:26 pm
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Bill, It does work on two megs - I have small linux running happily on a 386SX with 2 meg - a setup I believe to be the bare minimum! The response time is...
Richard Minshaw
Richard.Minshaw@...
May 16, 2000 7:33 am
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Dear All, Good question of BIll, about the games. Since more than a year, I've got a 386 with only 1MB RAM running LinuxLite. I don't know exactly how I should...
stemonic@...
May 22, 2000 6:51 am
245
I don't know for sure if it will run, or even how to install it, but Gnuchess runs without a graphic interface on my Red Hat Linux OS, so far it always wins,...
daleraby
daleraby@...
May 22, 2000 11:07 am
246
Hi, It looks in this message as though you are mixing two versions of Linux. Small Linux should not have any instruction of "restart in dos". However, the...
Steven G.
superant@...
May 23, 2000 6:02 pm
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Hi, The below link is a good place to start for Linux on Macintosh. http://dmoz.org/Computers/Software/Operating_Systems/Linux/Platforms/Macintosh/ Good luck, ...
Steven G.
superant@...
May 23, 2000 6:07 pm
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Hi, Here is an answer in the Small Linux discussion group: http://www.egroups.com/message/smalllinux/229?&start=36 Good luck, tell me if you have other...
Steven G.
superant@...
May 23, 2000 6:12 pm
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Hi, Here is a link to live bootable version of Linux: http://dmoz.org/Computers/Software/Operating_Systems/Linux/Distributions/Live_CD/ Good luck, Steven G, ...
Steven G.
superant@...
May 23, 2000 9:27 pm
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Hi, You are right, LinuxLite is the forerunner of Small Linux. I would be willing to call it the earliest "version" of Small Linux. The first step is to verify...
Steven G.
superant@...
May 23, 2000 9:43 pm
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I'm new to small linux distributions and I'm looking for a little assistance. When I tried to install Small Linux from the boot disk v. 0.5.0 it stops at a...
levar1@...
May 25, 2000 12:04 am
252
... I recieved a "Kernel Panic" message when I tried to install on a machine with less than two MB of RAM. How much memory does your machine have? I cannot...
daleraby
daleraby@...
May 25, 2000 2:22 am
253
I'd probably try Aux instead of Linux on a machine of that vintage. Linux is a big big OS, and I for one have never managed to get it going in two mb on a pc....
William Palfreman
william@...
May 27, 2000 7:05 pm
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Hi, The closest thing I know of is: Booting Linux in a diskless Sparc ELC at: http://helllabs.org/~claudio/sparclinux/elc/ Steven G. ...
Steven G.
superant@...
May 31, 2000 9:28 pm
255
Hi, A quick into to Lilo is at: http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/workshops/linux_install/lilo.html A mini-HOWTO is at: http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/LILO.html ...
Steven G.
superant@...
May 31, 2000 9:46 pm
256
Hi, There are FAQ sheets on using it with PLIP ans SLIP. Using network cards is very similar, depending on what support is compiled into the kernel you happen ...
Steven G.
superant@...
May 31, 2000 9:48 pm
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Ladies and Gentleman, Does the 2.2.XX Kernel support USB? and How can I do this if it does not? Thankyou and GODbless, Daniel Sigsworth...
Daniel Sigsworth
steward@...
Jun 2, 2000 2:57 am
258
... not? 2.2.x does not have USB support. The 2.3.x kernels have support, but this is an experimental series of kernels. The first of the 2.4 kernels will be...
Timm Murray
admin@...
Jun 2, 2000 12:32 pm
259
Hello. I'm installing LILO on and older version of Small Linux and keep receiving the error: "First boot sector is version 15. Expecting version 18." Does...
Nick W.
levar1@...
Jun 9, 2000 7:54 am
260
Nick, From what I gather any LILO newer than 18 can handle what you're doing. 5.1. How to Deal with Big Kernels If you compile a ``zImage'' kernel and it is...
Jud Bishop
jud_bishop@...
Jun 15, 2000 11:20 pm
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Dear Steven and other members of this group, I just came back from holidays. I looked at my 1 meg machine. The following is a copy of part of my session: 43#...
Dobedani
stemonic@...
Jun 16, 2000 6:34 am
262
Dear All, I managed to get the mc from ftp.nuclecu.unam.mx working. It messes up the screen sometimes. I want to get arrow and function keys working, so I...
