Greetings,

As noted in my other recent post, just got Amigo2 installed and working on my ol' Libretto 110CT subnote.

However, now have a few questions:

1) When I opened Amigo Desktop/WindowMaker, it opened at a larger resolution than my little Libretto's 800x480 resolution. So can't see all of the desktop. The last icon I see in the right side dock is the blue bird icon for Rox-Filer. Everything below that is cut off.

So, where can I (hopefully) adjust the display resolution to 800x480 to fit my Libretto's 7" display?

UPDATE: OK, figured out how to fix it....edited the xf86config file...can see the entire window now, much better!!


2) How do I install other packages? Or where can I find info on doing this?

3) As I understand it, I can install other packages from a Slackware CD I have right?

4) As Amigo is on my little carry everywhere lappy, I want to be able to boot Amigo without needing a floppy drive/boot disk.

So I need to install LILO, etc to be able to do this right?

5) Once I've logged in, do I still need my floppy drive/boot disk?

I've noticed that the green drive light is still on and disk whirring noise continuous after I've logged in.

Can I just disconnect floppy drive or pull out disk anyway?

6) How do I get my external PCMCIA CD drive to be recognized by Amigo?

(UPDATE: Looked at HOWTO Install Doc and looked at 'fstab' & 'fstab.amigo' files, got some idea now...but could use info on ext drive parameters...)

7) How do I get other PCMCIA cards to be recognized by Amigo?

Sorry for such basic questions, but I'm really new at Linux, even though have used computers since '86!

Thanks for any help on any of my questions!

2-3 You can use packages from Slackware 9.1 or from linuxpackages.net.
Save anywhere you have access. Then navigate to the folder, right-click and choose 'Xterm here'. then type 'installpkg pkgname.tgz'

Once the kernel has loaded( about half way through boot messages), you can remove the boot floppy.

To install lilo:
1. Open an xterm and run 'liloconfig'.
2. Choose where to install lilo. The safest place to install is to a formatted floppy and I recommend you to install it there first, at least temporarily. Then when you see that it works you can reinstall it to the MBR. LILO is quite safe, but for newcomers it's best to do it this way to avoid problems.
3. Choose 'expert' mode.
4. Choose 'Start new lilo header'.
5. Choose 'Add a Linux partition'. liloconfig will scan for bootable LINUX partitions and will NOT recognize your FAT -returning an empty list. However, it will give you a chance to manually input the partition info. Just type in the location of the FAT partition where you installed AMIGO( such as /dev/hda1 ).
6. If you are dual booting with Windows, then choose 'Add a DOS/WIN partition' and choose the correct one -this can and may be the same one as above.
7. Then choose 'Install lilo'.

For PCMCIA devices(and others not needed for bootup) you must first install the kernel-module for the device. Using ROX-Filer, navigate to /etc/rc.d and then right-click on rc.modules and choose 'Open as text'. Scroll down and find the entry for your PC Card and uncomment the line by removing the '#' from the beginning of the line. Then save the file. This will load the module the next time you boot. You can install it right away by opening an xterm and typing:
insmod module-name
For instance, 'insmod apm' will install the module for APM.

Thanks so much gnashley for taking the time for a detailed reply!

Really helps out this noob and I'll bet other noobs out there....


Mark

Per Q7 in the Amigo FAQ, I'm in the middle of moving Amigo to a Linux partition.

All was OK till I got to the last item to copy over in Step 5: cp -avx vmlinuz /mnt/hd

Got error message:

cp: cannot stat vmlinuz: No such file or directory


I'm logged in as root and in '/' directory....

When I typed 'ls -a', I didn't see vmlinuz there...

?

Any suggestions??

Thanks,

Mark

Kernel is now in /boot.

Thanks gnashley for your help!

Got Amigo moved over to Linux partition now...

Now trying to get LILO installed per your earlier instructions...

It's been about 10 minutes now since I started 'Install LILO'.....starting to wonder if there's problem with install??

Should I wait a while longer??

If install doesn't finish, should I just close xterm window and try again?

UPDATE:

LILO installed OK, it just didn't ever say that in the xterm window, strange....

However, I rebooted and LILO showed up with Linux and Windows as boot options....chose Linux and booted up OK, even saw Tux!


So onto the next thing....install packages....

Mark

Where is the xf86config file? I might need to edit it.

It's either in '/usr/X11R6/X11' or in 'etc/X11'...

You can either edit file directly or use 'xf86config' app to create file....

Meanwhile, just noticed something strange relating to 'X/AmigoDesktop'....
It opens up OK when I'm logged in as 'root' but not when I'm logged in as other user....

When I'm logged in as other user and do 'startx' it opens up a little window with a 'bash' prompt'. That window is sitting on a dot pattern background. Nothing else visible. So what I do is type 'exit' at prompt and it gets me back to CLI prompt....

Do I need to setup another xf86config file for my 'other user'???

Mark

Run 'xwmconfig' as the new user in order to choose your window manager -Window Maker is the Amigo standard. You'll get a bare desktop though, with none of the Friendly Amigo enhancements.
If you want to create a new user with a desktop and permissions similar to 'amigo', be sure to add your new user ti the group 'wheel'. When you run 'adduser' and it prompts for addititonal groups(besides users), add group #10 (wheel) to your user. This will make the new user a 'power user' like 'amigo' with permission to do anything on the system. To create a regular user with normally restricted permissions, just don't add the user to the group 'wheel'.

If you mostly like the desktop and want to use it as a starting point for your new user, you can copy all of the 'amigo' user preferences to the new user like this:
Login as user 'root' and copy the 'amigo' home directory into the new users directory:
cp -r /home/amigo /home/your_user
Then change the ownership of the files to the new user:
chown -R your_user:users /home/your_user
That's it! logout as root and back in as the new user, run 'startx' and you should have a desktop just like 'amigo'.

BTW 'xf86config' is the COMMAND for running the standard X configuration tool. The configuration file it creates is XF86Config (notice syntax), which in Slackware-based systems is located in /etc/X11. Be sure to back-up the file before attemting to manually edit it:
cd /etc/X11
cp XF86Config XF86Config.bkp

Thanks for your help gnashley!

However, just tried twice to copy over Amigo user prefs as you describe. Didn't work, still get the same background as before....

I logged in as root.

Typed:

cp -r /home/amigo /home/mark
chown -R mark:users /home/mark

Logged out as 'root' and logged in as 'mark'.

Isn't the above correct??

Thanks,

Mark

Try cp -avx instead of -r

The good news is that worked better on the 'cp' part gnashley!

This time I saw lots of text scrolling on the display after hitting 'Enter'....

However, after doing the line:

'chown -R mark:users /home/mark'

then logging out from root and logging back in as 'mark' and typing 'startx', there's no change in background yet...

So I think there's still an issue with the 'chown' part....

Any suggestions??

Thanks,

Mark

Okay, try:
umask 000; cp -avx /home/amigo /home/mark

Thanks again for your help gnashley!

Just tried your suggestion, but no change...???

Maybe I should just

A) use the 'amigo' user or

B) delete the 'mark' user I added and then create another user and see what happens this time??

Seems odd though that this is happening...

Thanks,

Mark

I typed these two lines after I created my regular user account. I did not add this user to wheel (Group #10)

umask 000; cp -avx /home/amigo /home/starion
'chown -R mark:users /home/starion'

I logged in as starion and started WindowMaker.

When I clicked the Home folder in the upper right corner of Window Maker, I see this error message: Error scanning: "/home/amigo/"

Can't open directory: Permissioned Denied.



Why is the home folder pointing to /home/amigo instead of /home/starion? How do I correct this problem?