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[Theo Perry <theo.perry AT xtra.co.nz>]

Sindi,

I think you have to type "sudo su" to work as root in DSL.

Theo



sindi keesan wrote:

> On Tue, 28 Jun 2005, David Moberg wrote:
>
>  
>
> > IIRC, to log into the DSL user account it is:
> >
> > Username: damnsmall
> > Password: damnsmall
> >    
>
> I get logged in automatically as the DSL user.  What I could not do was 
> 'su', which I think requires knowing the password for 'root'.
>
>
> If we can hotswap floppy disk to DVD-ROM drive, I can boot with 2-floppy 
> BL2 (BL3 won't boot at all), then copy over to it a bunch of modules via 
> floppy disk, and insmod parport parport_pc scsi_mod sd_mod imm and loop, 
> and mount the zip disk and fs.img (via loop) and chroot to the parport 
> drive.  Maybe I could even make a script to do this.  Then I can (after 
> 2-4 min wait) start mplayer and try to play a DVD, once I figure out if 
> the sound chip (ES something or other, says DSL) is supported by OSS.
>
> This might not be faster than playing the DVD on a player where you have 
> to wait and keep hitting the play button to get through the previews and 
> warnings, but it is more interesting.
>
>
> Booting from 2 floppies is no slower than booting from a CD that dumps you 
> into a GUI that you have to get back out of, but all those modules slow 
> things down and DSL might need only imm and loop insmodded.  I could try 
> making a modified BL2 floppy set with the modules automatically insmodded.
>
> What else might one use hard-drive-less 500MHz 320MB RAM laptop computer 
> for?  It takes rather a long time to load anything from zip disk.
>
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