salix2501

this is my take on firewall

i don't understand iptables & not sure I want to; my approach to computers is like the driver of a car- I haven't a clue
what the compression ratio of the pistons is, but that doesn't stop me turning the wheel ,pressing a peddle now & again & still getting ...

cheers mimosa

running lilosetup caused a crash leading to the system out putting :

"try running e2sck -u-y /dev/sda2 I have no idea why. just read an active post entitled "what file systems do you use" and also memntioned it there.

editing /etc/lilo.conf worked fine by the way

just like to mention I did a dual boot recently , and configured lilo using edit of /etc/lilo.conf

it was put to me that i should use lilo set up from menu, It caused a crash leading to an output of "try running e2fsk -u-y /dev/sda2

i wasn't too happy & have no idea why running lilo setup from ...

Ejames82

I installed salixos and slackware 13.37 on the same hard drive, and I have a choice at boot up time of either operating system through Lilo. Both salixos and slackware only require you to have a minimum of a swap and one other partition so , keeping it to a minimum I have three primary ...

last night i built google chromium , mind you it took so long i went to bed & left it running ; anyway I got package
chromium-9.0.597.107-i486-1_SBo-tgz.

One dependency was yasm, which I found in Gslapt. I installed chromium , with
#installpkg chromium-9.0.597.107-i486-1_SBo-tgz and all working ...

hi

i'm not onthe road, but flew in relatively recently to the Uk from Africa and also only have a huawei e220 usb modem, subscribing to "three"

i have salixos 13.37 installed , i got around the problem using a piece of kit from
http://www.tenda.cn/

It is a small router, with wifi cabability ...

I agree

$ ./configure
$ make
$ su
Password:
# make install

this makes complete sense and is instantly understandable

mimosa cheers for the +ve

All in all the start up guide is looking good, and as a newbie very releived not to see a "foo" or
a "bar" anywhere ; the guide is actually very readable;

Often as a newbie its the silly little things that everyone else takes for granted that can cause problems ; on page 23 you mention installing ...

thank you very much djemos

that all worked fine , $ fakeroot slkbuild -X worked and created new package, after which installed new package as per your command line code.

freshclam downloaded update, and clamscan is working .also noticed that I now have a clamav-0.97.1 folder in the /usr/src ...

thanks for that djemos,

i'm on a windows machine posting this,so will look when I get back & let you know


incidently last night I downloaded from clamav.net the source for 0.97.1 found a lackbuild at slackbuild.org and changed
the version from 0.95.2 to 0.97.1 and ran ./clamav.Slackbuild it ran ...