Dell PC slackware 12.0 installation and networking
Just bought a second hand Dell for my studies. My PC did come with a Win XP installation but since I didn't have internet access I couldn't figure out how to partition my hard drive for the slack install without overwriting XP (which was fine).
Installing slackware was easy - I just let it install everything (4.5+ GB) which was fine since I have 40GB to fill up, and I'm not that much of a prolific coder.
Learned that it's a dual core processor (two tux's). I actually know what that means, thanks to my network engineering paper.
Eclipse is an awesome development environment for java that we use at school. Installed eclipse in /usr/local/eclipse (don't know what the conventions are for installation directories). I created a script called /usr/local/sbin/eclipse which calls the actual executable:
To put the script in my path I had to add this line to .bashrc:
export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/sbin
Connecting with our home network was simple. Found necessary settings (eg gateway) in one of the existing PCs (I didn't set this network up) and checked the server for an IP address for a PC that is no longer on the network.
netconfig took care of the rest (except for the proxy settings in Firefox.) The only ongoing issue is that my onboard network card seems to disappear after some reboots.
Installing slackware was easy - I just let it install everything (4.5+ GB) which was fine since I have 40GB to fill up, and I'm not that much of a prolific coder.
Learned that it's a dual core processor (two tux's). I actually know what that means, thanks to my network engineering paper.
Eclipse is an awesome development environment for java that we use at school. Installed eclipse in /usr/local/eclipse (don't know what the conventions are for installation directories). I created a script called /usr/local/sbin/eclipse which calls the actual executable:
Code:
#!/bin/sh exec /usr/local/eclipse/eclipse
export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/sbin
Connecting with our home network was simple. Found necessary settings (eg gateway) in one of the existing PCs (I didn't set this network up) and checked the server for an IP address for a PC that is no longer on the network.
netconfig took care of the rest (except for the proxy settings in Firefox.) The only ongoing issue is that my onboard network card seems to disappear after some reboots.