World: r3wp

:-)

I can believe this kind of thinking, funny though ;-)

What's a good linux to install on a Pentium II 300MHz  64MB RAM  
3Gig disk ?  It's for my flatmate to browse the web.

some guy tested Linux distros on old machine ...
http://www.linux.com/print.pl?sid=06/02/13/1854251

the choice of WM will be the key factor, I think.

This is good, thankyou.

www.vectorlinux.com

I've decided to try Slackware first, so I'm downloading that.

Ok, I've installed Slackware (all the files, apps etc.) onto a Linux 
ext2 partition, marked as Bootable.  But when I reboot, BIOS says 
"Missing operating system" (boot order is CD, C, floppy)

Bit confused by that.

I chose not to install LILO, because the instructions made it sound 
like it wasn't necessary. Is that necessary ?

I think it is.

yes, either LILO or GRUB

thanks, looking into installing lilo now.

Looks like there's no way to install lilo if you skip it in setup. 
Unclear and misleading comments in the setup notes.

I have reinstalled successfully from scratch. It seems to me I made 
two errors the first time around: I had skipped installing both the 
linux kernel and lilo bootmanager.

Woohoo ! Slackware box is up and browsing to rebol.net ! :-) That 
was pretty easy.

ok...i am a total newbie here.  i am trying to get rebol .r scripts 
to run on a Mandrake linux box, but i just cannot get them to run. 
 they basically only work as text documents.  am i missing something? 
 i installed rebol view, which as i understand it installs core also. 
 i want to be able to doulble-click the .r file and have it run. 
 it works in windows.  thanks in advance.

the wonderful world of linux... what I had to do was to make scripts 
as shellscripts with the shebang line at the top with the path to 
the rebol executable. there is a mention of this in the Rebol/Core 
manual here: http://rebol.com/docs/core23/rebolcore-2.html

This should work across the various desktops.

looks like rebol/view ubuntu version runs fine on ubuntu dapper

it's definitely more stable than some of the gnome apps... :-)

Unfortunately, the shebang is the wrong way around in the REBOL manual. 
The best form to use is

#! /usr/bin/env rebol

This should be the most system independent

ok...so now i am in the midst of another issue

i tried to install rebol last night and it did not appear to work. 
 i left for the day and was going to deal with it today

now the HD is full

it was not full yesterday, but it is now

we are trying to figure out where all the space went to now

we recently had to re-install mandrake and it appears that this is 
the same thign that happened the last time i installed rebol

i had installed it then left on vacation

my co-workers apparently had an issue lst time and had to reformat 
and install

there could be a number of things wrong... a likely issue is a logfile 
that has gone way too big.

wher eis the logfile?

usually /var/log, but that depends on what is logged, which distribution 
you use and what program is logging :-)

If REBOL/View doesn't run after installation, you probably have to 
install version 6 of the Athena Widgets library

I wouldn't know of anything in /View that would fill up your disk, 
though. Could indeed be some system logging

you can use du  -s   to track down where the space is being used

[[tomc-:-aught] ~]$ sudo du -s /*
5752    /bin
69262   /boot
8       /cs
436     /dev
20404   /etc
14077532        /home
4       /initrd
333364  /lib
389064  /local
16      /lost+found

...

Slackware - connected ethernet cable to internet after fully booting 
and starting window system. How can I start the network ?

Don't worry. That's easy to figure out.

I love all those distro an RPM madness to just get an update to one 
package on RH... mabe someone can help. I'm running a rather old 
RH 7.2 (but it works good) and now need to update the Perl package. 
I downloaded the RRM of it and of course it has zillions of dependencies.

And it needs a new glibc version. But there is a circular dependency. 
I can't update glibc, as it conflicts with glibc-common of a lower 
version. Updating glibc-common doesn't work because it's required 
by the current glibc.

How can I do this update? And I need several GLIBCs, as it's a central 
component, that need to be installed in parallel, right? How to do 
this?

I once asked this in Feb, but I can't upgrade my system at the moment. 
So, I somehow need to get this installed.

Debian is so easy about this: apt-get update, apt-get upgrade and 
you are done.

robert, when you have circular dependencies the only way is to install 
both pkgs with the same command (i.e. rpm -i pgk1.rpm pkg2.rpm)

in your case though... updating the glibc is a bit risky, i remember 
completely trashing a version of RH (or was it Mandrake?) by just 
a glibc update. it was a long time ago though.

Yep, I ran RH around 6.1 - 7.2. It has no automatic updating and 
updating core components like GLiBC is extremely dangerous. From 
the sound of it, you're almost guaranteed to destroy your system. 
There's no supported way to install multiple versions of a package

Can a new redhat be installed chrooted?

Dunno. Wouldn't like to try