[Discuss] Re: Discuss Digest, Vol 10, Issue 2

[Jeff Childs]

I'm not sure what you have for hardware, but based on the fact that you
tried Ubuntu, I would recommend giving Slackware a try. It will run on most
hardware, and contains the packages you mentioned below.

Hope this helps,

Jeff

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> From: Tim Holloway <tjholloway78 at hotmail.com>
> Subject: [Discuss] tex and dsl
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> hello everyone.
>
> it seems that although i have a better computer now, i still can't run a
> better version of linux. i tried ubuntu but got an error 17 then the l99 at
> boot.
>
> but dsl works. however, i wanted to install tex on it and when i use mount
> -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom like the guide (
> http://www.tug.org/texlive/doc/texlive-en/live.html#x1-120003) tells me,
> it doesn't work. i dropped the last two sections of the directory, then
> spaced iso 9660, put it back, blech. but bash told me the iso format wasn't
> recognized by the kernel.
>
> if anyone happens to know what's going on, please let me know... ?
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> i'd like linux, tex, and hopefully some source code of some sort to play
> with, especially python (since i'm just starting out).
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> thanks,
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> tim
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> Date: Mon, 04 Dec 2006 15:27:01 -0800
> From: Bill Leuze <billeuze at shaw.ca>
> Subject: Re: [Discuss] tex and dsl
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> At 02:40 PM 2006-12-04, you wrote:
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> >hello everyone.
> >
> >it seems that although i have a better computer now, i still can't run a
> better version of linux. i tried ubuntu but got an error 17 then the l99 at
> boot.
> >
> >but dsl works. however, i wanted to install tex on it and when i use
> mount -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom like the guide (
> http://www.tug.org/texlive/doc/texlive-en/live.html#x1-120003) tells me,
> it doesn't work. i dropped the last two sections of the directory, then
> spaced iso 9660, put it back, blech. but bash told me the iso format wasn't
> recognized by the kernel.
> >
> >if anyone happens to know what's going on, please let me know... ?
>
> well, 2 things to look for:
> -1. make sure the mount point /mnt/cdrom does exist, if not create it
>         mkdir /mnt/cdrom
> -2. make sure the device /dev/cdrom does exist or, if /dev/cdrom doesn't
> work, try /dev/hdb or /dev/hdc or /dev/hdd, its bound to be one of those
> (/dev/cdrom would just be a symbolic link to one of those anyway)
>
> But we could help better if you let us know what your display reads when
> "it doesn't work", likely there is a very helpful error message there.
>
> Bill
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> mount -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom
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>
>
> >i'd like linux, tex, and hopefully some source code of some sort to play
> with, especially python (since i'm just starting out).
> >
> >thanks,
> >
> >tim
> >
> >
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> >my new e-mail address is timothyjholloway at gmail.com
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