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Sindi Keesan

On Sun, 22 Feb 2009, baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org wrote:

> Sindi,
> Thank you very much for help.
>
> I installed glibc.solibs 2.3.1. and misc-libs (which complained for lacking
> of doinstall.sh or somethint...) as for bl3.

If you want to save space on your hard drive, you can look at what is in 
the glibc package and delete most of it, just keeping the files that are 
named the same as in my package - libc, libm, libdl, ld-linux, ldconfig, 
libnss, libpthread, and libresolv.  You don't need the other libraries.
rm -r /usr/lib/gconv unless you want to use other languages and if so, 
delete all but your language (how does gconv work?)

> Then I downloaded, untar and run opera 8.54. It complains lack of a plug-in
> ("please install motif...") but it works for g-mail and https which I was
> interested. It is not very fast but much faster than the speed I was used to
> in ppp connection.

It always complains about the plug-in and motif and works anyway.

It will run faster if you view without graphics (set in View or 
preferences), and with (Tools, Appearance) Windows skin instead of 
Standard skin, to use less memory. Otherwise you will be continually 
swapping to the swap partition which I hope you made for this computer. 
Or you can add a 48MB swap file (see the archives about how).

> Links 0.93 for usual text browsing is incredibly fast. For this machine (and
> hd....) that is at the moment more than I could expect.
>
> BTW I have a minor problem.
> With links 0.93, the one in bl2, I can't connect with most, almost all, ftp
> sites ("ftp port command failed") which I could reach with the same links in
> ppp connection, actually the mirror site
> ftp://ftp.unina.it/pub/linux/distributions/slackware/. I can connect those
> sites with opera.

Try links123 with ssl support compiled for BL3, but you will need 
libc.so.5 (580K) and libdl.so.1 (60K) from libc5 solibs package.

> To connect with ADSL via dhcp I did the following:
> insmod 3c59x.o
> I installed tcpip1.tgz from slackware 7.1 (following a hint found in the bl
> archive) and run dhcp.

BL3 includes dhcp in busybox. (You can try using BL3 busybox instead of 
BL2 busybox but it might require changing some symlinks).  You don't need 
the entire tcpip1.tgz package for BL2, just dhcp itself, or if you will 
use the computer only with one router whose IP number is 192.168.0.1, 
instead of using dhcp, which searches for and assigns IP numbers, manually
assign your computer 192.168.0.2 or 3 or 4.... using the command:

        ifconfig eth0 192.168.0.2

and removepkg tcpip1 to save space.

It would be easier if you just used BL3 to start with and added glibc.

Sindi

> After installation I have a ftp directory in /home.
> Have I to configure something in that directory? Or is that a problem
> related to links browser?
>
> Thank you.
> Regards,
>
> Giuseppe