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by luddite
5. Jul 2011, 17:52
Forum: General
Topic: firewall
Replies: 11
Views: 10625

Re: firewall

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 g...
by luddite
4. Jul 2011, 10:40
Forum: Problems
Topic: need to remove lilo and install grub
Replies: 9
Views: 9094

Re: need to remove lilo and install grub

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
by luddite
4. Jul 2011, 10:36
Forum: Salix pub
Topic: What filesystem do you use in Linux?
Replies: 17
Views: 12268

Re: What filesystem do you use in Linux?

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 f...
by luddite
26. Jun 2011, 11:38
Forum: Problems
Topic: need to remove lilo and install grub
Replies: 9
Views: 9094

Re: need to remove lilo and install grub

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 part...
by luddite
20. Jun 2011, 09:50
Forum: Misc
Topic: Successfully installed Google Chrome on SalixOS 13.37
Replies: 5
Views: 5930

Re: Successfully installed Google Chrome on SalixOS 13.37

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 ...
by luddite
17. Jun 2011, 13:43
Forum: Problems
Topic: Mobile Broadband 3G
Replies: 11
Views: 9471

Re: Mobile Broadband 3G

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 cababilit...
by luddite
17. Jun 2011, 10:48
Forum: Documentation
Topic: Start up guide for Salix 13.37
Replies: 18
Views: 14461

Re: Start up guide for Salix 13.37

I agree

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

this makes complete sense and is instantly understandable

mimosa cheers for the +ve
by luddite
16. Jun 2011, 17:38
Forum: Documentation
Topic: Start up guide for Salix 13.37
Replies: 18
Views: 14461

Re: Start up guide for Salix 13.37

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 m...
by luddite
15. Jun 2011, 17:48
Forum: Documentation
Topic: clamav & salix note to myself & other newbies
Replies: 8
Views: 7791

Re: clamav & salix note to myself & other newbies

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 director...
by luddite
15. Jun 2011, 11:49
Forum: Documentation
Topic: clamav & salix note to myself & other newbies
Replies: 8
Views: 7791

Re: clamav & salix note to myself & other newbies

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 ...