On Tuesday 17 April 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > David Baron wrote: > > I installed it in a qemu session. The ISO downloaded is an installer, not > > a "live CD". > > > > !. The installation is finicky and I doubt any first time user will get > > it right. Instead of offering to make partions, it says "run cfdisk". I > > did it and made a linux and swap partition on one disk image. Cool. This > > works. Then proceded with deliinstall. One chooses one (count 'em) > > keyboard and later one and only one language. The thing will make your > > swap after warning you that this is dangerous if swap is active. Do it > > anyway. It offers three ways to run lilo. Using its default simple method > > is adequate. It now asks where to put the mbr. After accepting its > > default, I actually fixed it by using a virtual knoppix session on the > > disk image file and put the mbr where it belongs using fdisk. > > > > 2. Made a virtualbox vdi using its conversion tool. The iso and this file > > as well hung the system on boot. Virtualbox has a weakness of not > > emulating a known video device. In this case, this is fatal. > > > > 3. The fixed up disk image will boot nicely in qemu. Run delisetup. > > Either choice of windowmanger yields the "failsafe" X with a vterm and > > blank gray screen. Ran abiword. Could not resize the window. Got stuck in > > its help. Alt control/D out. A beginning user with his/her 166mhz > > Pentium-antique will not be able to figure out how to get the beautiful > > screenshots on the site and how to correctly shutdown the system. > > One must run as a normal user (it sets up root but one must run adduser to set up non-root users. New to Linux? O Well.) xwmconfig. Now when one startx's, it comes up very nicely.
The WIKI linked on their site gives these three more steps: 1. As root: Delistup-->set up tiny-X-server 2. As user: xwmconfig 3. startx. > > 4, OK, will run nicely with a little resources. But needs more UI work to > > be really practical. At least mention the above. Better, do them on reboot if possible. > > 5. Only provides added software from its CD. Weakness. This is for low memory usage. There are a few packages requiring 32meg (jeepers!) firefox, gnumeric and vlc. Needs: firewall!! > Nothing like a bad review of another distribution to make my day. Not really. UI design is an art. I might not have gotten my Debian set up were it not for starting with Knoppix. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
