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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

On Wed, 7 Mar 2007 3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org wrote:

> sindi keesan wrote:
> > Opera won't even start.  The others ignore .lynxrc
> > and links.cfg (don't read or write).
> >
> > Steven, do these work properly for you in BL3 as 'user'?
>
> I don't know.  I have never used BL3 as user.
> BL3 was not designed for a user account and I
> do not recommend it for that purpose.  If you
> want to run a user account, I recommend you use
> BL2 or BL1.
>
> Cheers,
> Steven

I am using BL2 as user but BL3 is smaller and I have been putting it onto 
other people's computers, and in loop files on my own laptops, just for 
online use.  One laptop with Win98 won't work in Windows with a hardware 
modem that works in linux on that computer, but Windows works with a 
linksys wireless card there that won't work with 2.2.26 kernel.  I don't 
want to risk breaking Windows by shrinking it to make ext2 space.

The passwd.tgz package worked okay but a lot of the /dev files needed to 
be made o+rw, ppp-on and ppp-off were not on the path, etc.

So far friends are running BL3 as root and have not broken it.

Karolis will figure this out after recompiling uclibc (2.2.26 - I will 
check the resulting gzip with 2.2.16).  I asked him to compile dropbear 
small ssh program with uclibc.