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Thank you very much Sindi,
I will try to size down the glibc package and to follow your hints about
Opera.

> ....you can add a 48MB swap file (see the archives about how).

I have a 210 Mb hd with 34 Mb with DOS, 32 Mb linux swap and 144 Mb for bl2.
Now I have only 60 mb, about, of free space.

> ....... 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
>
May I do that? I have one router but I believed I must use dhcp for my
connection: it is indicated as a PPPoE connection by my ISP.

Regards,
Giuseppe


----- Original Message -----
From: <baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org>
To: <baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Sunday, February 22, 2009 11:31 PM
Subject: Re: [BL] BL2 and opera


>
>
> 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
> >
>
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