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  • From: sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>
  • To: BasicLinux List <baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [BL] Upgrading BL3
  • Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2006 23:19:15 +0000 (UTC)


A friend with a 120GB hard drive on his desktop made the mistake of giving WinXP the whole hard drive and now he is trying to run an astronomy program which is available for Redhat/SuSE, Cygwin, or FreeBSD. He tried putting FreeBSD on his 'old' laptop but it filled up 4GB before he could put on his astronomy program. It uses a viewer FITS which requires X, otherwise the package will run CLI.

Is there any reason you really need Redhat or SuSE, or would BL3 with some library upgrades be likely to work? He said the package has a lot of dependencies but is not all that large itself.

He would ideally like to be able to use his USB CDROM drive plugged into a PCMCIA USB adaptor, but he does have a wireless PCMCIA card which he can probably get going in FreeBSD in a smaller partition to download whatever BL/Slackware files he might need at a public library.

Cygwin only lets him run one program at a time. There is no qemu version - is the Redhat version likely to run in qemu? Should he attempt to set up a BL-based linux and use some rpm installer with it? He is more familiar with BSD but is learning Cygwin. Is anyone on this list familiar with it? He would rather have the package on his laptop to take to the local observatory to do spectrometry with, as a hobby.

He may not need any window manager. He filled 4GB with FreeBSD and no desktop (such as GNOME) by adding all the packages containing any dependencies he thought he needed.

On Wed, 26 Apr 2006 3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org wrote:

David Moberg wrote:

The 2.3.1 version of glibc should be compatible with
just about everything.

As proof of this statement, here's how to get qemu installed in BL3.

Wow!





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