ziplack- Linux newbie and X windows = confused (help me, please?)

urbansound · 03-22-2004, 01:10 PM

Nice Board everyone!!

Thank you for helping us poor lost newbie souls. Maybe I too can become great and profound in slackland and be a userland extraordinair one day, with your help.

I'm brand new to Linux, but I do see much happiness in the future already.

I dl'd the "current" zipslack, which I guess is the ZipSlack(tm) 9.1 UMSDOS Linux installation version.

The fun box I'm breaking in, is....

Quote:

Compaq
GenuineIntel Intel(r) Celeron(tm) Processor Intel MMX(TM) Technology
95MB RAM
Available space on drive D: 512MB of 611MB (FAT32)
Frequency : 466 MHz
Front Side Bus Speed : 66 MHz

Video Card data is...

Quote:

General Information :
Model : 82810-DC100 810 Chipset Graphics Controller
Bus Type : PCI
Support PnP/DDC : Yes
Refresh : Optimal Rate

Bios VESA :
Version : 2.0
Manufacturer : Intel810(TM) Graphics Chip Accelerated VGA BIOS
VESA VBE/PM Version : 1.18
Product : i810 Graphics Controller
Product Version : Hardware Version 0.0
Manufacturer : Intel Corporation
Total Memory : 32 Mb
Used video memory : 2048 Kb (soit 400.00 %)
Memory Type : Shared Memory (SDRAM)

One can see I'm on a DOS partition, which is win98(SE) with 512 of 611, meg, remaining after Linux install. Linux came up fine on the setup in D drive, using a DOS prompt pif, for Pure DOS. Boots fine from the PIF, no boot disc, F-DISK or F-this or F-anything else.

First pursuit was to figure out what's up with X windows. Documentations reads that it "is" and "isn't" contained in zipslack.

Meaning that the install created what I see in the windows directory observed is ... D:\linux\usr\x11r6.{_a\lib\x11.{__ Wherein I see Xserver, fonts, etc., among 13 objects alltogether.

Yet no configs do anything. Xfree86 configs, nada, zip, outahere, ROFLOL

So I'm assuming I have to DL an xwindow package, (I guess), but questions follow...

Do I have to do anything with the "footprint" that exists at x11r6, like uninstall it, before installing the xwindow package?

AND

What is the best way to profile a "minimum package", so xwindows doesn't chew up the rest of the partition with unused goodies?

AND

Does a minimum package have to be "built", or just load the components into the install directory and hit "GO"?

That should be enough to start confusing me adequately, so I might then confuse others just as much.

Please do give the newbie some ideas. I searched the links here and at slack and one other site, but I still have to look up references like reboot, let alone how to install a package.

Thanks fellow bit-heads, so much for your consideration.

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Urbansound, the InvisibleImage

aaa · 03-22-2004, 01:20 PM

You posted this already:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...236#post832236

urbansound · 03-22-2004, 01:27 PM

Right, Don't know how I did that, was trying to re-locate your original and quote the response. Botched it. Sorry. Wanna delete this one, I dont seem to have delete privies. Tx.

Urban

unSpawn · 03-22-2004, 06:19 PM

//moderator.note: closed, FUP to http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...236#post832236