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On Sat, 16 Jan 2010, baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org wrote:

> OK, I tried something else.  I made a copy of the fs50meg.img in a 
> separate subfolder.  I then copied in FS.IMG (the regular 20 meg DOS 
> loop file).  I then executed "dd if=FS.IMG of=fs50meg.img conv=notrunc". 
> It copied the one file into the other and it was not truncated to the 20 
> meg. size.  Looked good but the test I use is to attempt a install of 
> Opera.  Opera would not install.  I must assume that the extra 30 meg is 
> unusuable unaccessable.  What am I doing wrong?

Copy opera*.tar.gz (qt-static) to /
tar -zxvf opera*gz
startx
xterm (rxvt)
cd /opera*
opera

You can run it this way without installing it.
If it won't load, you may be missing the dependencies.

Did you add the required libraries for opera first?   Steven describes his 
method at the BL site.  See my site for another way using less space.

You can find a list of required libraries by cd'ing to opera-9.64 and
ldd opera (the binary is there - other opera file is a script to run it
from uninstalled files).  You also need a couple of other unlisted 
libraries to get online.

Opera since version 8 will not run in less than 64K colors. If you are NOT 
using Xvesa, in BL3, check /etc/XF86Config to be sure you have a line for 
16 bit color under Screen.

What exactly happens when you try to install Opera?


Sindi