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

Tue Dec 5 15:59:01 CST 2006

I agree with the following. And yes, it is not quite as "plug and Play" ish as some other distros, so you have to do your homework

Bill

At 10:49 AM 2006-12-05, you wrote:
>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
>>
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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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>>> Message: 2
>>> 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:
>>>
>>> >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
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
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