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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...
- 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
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
- 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...
- 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...
- 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 ...
- 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...
- 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
$ ./configure
$ make
$ su
Password:
# make install
this makes complete sense and is instantly understandable
mimosa cheers for the +ve
- 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...
- 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...
- 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 ...