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

Tue Dec 5 12:49:13 CST 2006

I second the Slackware endorsement;
I have it running on 2 older machines. It is extremely stable and comes with
many packages (if you so choose).
As an added bonus, you will learn a lot more about Linux when you choose a
distro like Slackware, as it requires you to do a little reading up and
hand-configuring of your system.
Well worth the extra effort - my 2 cents.

Graham

On 12/5/06, Jeff Childs <jgchilds at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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
>
> http://junktrap.naihl.net
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> > Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2006 14:40:39 -0800
> > From: Tim Holloway <tjholloway78 at hotmail.com>
> > Subject: [Discuss] tex and dsl
> > To: Nanaimo LUG <discuss at nanlug.org>
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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... ?
> >
> > 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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> > Date: Mon, 04 Dec 2006 15:27:01 -0800
> > From: Bill Leuze <billeuze at shaw.ca>
> > Subject: Re: [Discuss] tex and dsl
> > To: Nanaimo Linux User Group discussion list <discuss at nanlug.org>
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> > At 02:40 PM 2006-12-04, you wrote:
> >
> > >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
> >
> > mount -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom
> >
> >
> >
> > >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
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >my new e-mail address is timothyjholloway at gmail.com
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