OK, now that we have that straightened out I have two more questions for you:

1. Where is the best place for me to get information about properly installing these two packages?

2. Is it absolutely essential to have the dhcp and dhcpcd packages installed in order to use TCP/IP? The reason I ask is that I manually gave my Amigo box an IP address, but I can't still can't reach my network or ping anything even by IP address.

TCP/IP is installed already. You also need rp-pppoe to use tcp over ethernet.
then run 'ifconfig'.
Installing packages is easy. just browse to wherever the files is, on CD or in a folder, and type :
installpkg packagename.tgz
Or short hand example for the two dhcp pkgs:
installpkg dhcp*.tgz
the * is a wildcard for any following characters. To install all pkgs in a folder type:
installpkg *.tgz
You can then view the contents of any package by typing 'pkgtool' in an xterm, or from the Command Line Interface. The Slackware Package tool starts. Choose 'View the list of files conatined in a package'. After a bit you will see a list of all the installed packages, with each installed file shown. You use 'pkgtool' to remove pkgs or start/stop services. 'pkgtool' calls installpkg, removepkg, updatepkg.
I always INSTALL pkgs using 'installpkg', but remove them with 'pkgtool'.
If you don't find what all of what you want in the official Slackware tree, try using packages from linuxpackages.net. There about 700 pkgs there for Slack 9.1.
Keep in mind, that once you get to the first login, you are basically running Slackware 9.1. ALL configs are the same and you'll find excellent answers to most of these questions if you jump to the Slackware forum.
There are some Friendly Amigo 'tricks' that can be done, and I've yet to finish the Amigo Help Central and ToolBox features, which are meant to help you do these things without being much of an expert. Speaking of that, back to work...

What's "rp-pppoe", where can I find it, and would not having "rp-pppoe" explain why I can't connect my Amigo box to my network?

I downloaded the 3 files/pkgs=dhpc,dhcpcd & rp-pppoe ending in extension .tgz
as that seems to be the only way amigo will install using this extension only, to my win98se desktop.

Thereafter I copied these files/pkgs.to a dos formated floppy disk.

I shut down win98se and booted amigo to desktop.

I accessed the files/pkgs.I copied to floppy by opening /mnt/floppy via Rox File Manager,then I opened another instance of Rox to navigate to /bin folder.

I drag and drop said files/pkgs.from floppy to /bin folder

Thereafter I opened xterm and typed "pkgtool"

I used the 2nd. option to install from directory of my choosing typed in "/bin"

From there on it should be self explainitory as all I did was agree = installed the files/pkgs.

I did have a problem w/pkg rp-pppoe,but it seems to be of no worry as I am here typing this via amigo on web browser dillo.

Now to download web browser firefox.

Thx. very much for a wonderful experiance using installing pkgs. on Amigo!


P.S.I never did venture away from slackware 9.1 on Amigo,odd tho on the version 10 4cd package of slackware there is a folder w/9.1,but all packages ending in the .gz extension not .tgz.
is there a way to convert .gz to .tgz?

.tgz are the same as .tar.gz , which means they are 'tar' archives that are gzipped after tarring.
You use gunzip to unzip a .gz file like this:
gunzip nameoffile.gz
it will be unzipped as nameoffile
To zip it back up with the usual mximum compression:
gzip -9 nameoffile
It will be zipped and name nameoffile.gz
.bz2 files are similar with better compression. These compression types and file extensions are not ususally used randomly. Real Slackware compatible packages are always .tgz
.tar.gz files are usually source code files, or sometimes installers like for firefox or opera.
KERNEL source code usually comes as .bz2 files.
You should remove the otibginal packages with the .tgz from /bin. this is not the place to do that work. You can execute installpkg or pkgtool from the floppy directory. Or if you want to copy the files over, put them in root's home directory: /root.
Make a habit of working as user and do all your work in your /home dir. example: /home/amigo
Login as root or check out the use of 'sudo' to run stuff as user, but with root permissions. User 'amigo' has lots of special rights already setup.

Thx.for the heads up on the proper procedure to install pkgs. on amigo & using the proper directories and learning good habits concerning the use of linux.

I learned to navigate winDOwS in an unorthadox way,but can not ever remember having the problems I hear so much about winDOwS crashing,but I would very much like to learn linux the correct way.

This distro tho not a distro in it's own right is really the only one so far I have been able to at least get an idea of the inner workings as all the other distro's I've tried were either already complete enough for my use or I just plumb didn't have a clue on what to do.

I Thank You for the time you take to explain this.

ok i install dchp and dchpcp and rp-pppoe
what do i do now?
im on a dsl line and im totally lost
this is so different from the live debian cds ive been running.
o well
someone plz help

Open an xterm (the penguin) and run 'netconfig' to set up your IP address and dhcp.
Then run these to finish setting up and to start/stop:
adsl-setup
adsl-start
adsl-stop

Hi, I've just joined this Forum so let me begin with a big THANK YOU to gnashley for developing the distribution. It's clever and useful, which is great.

I installed Amigo on an old Toshiba portable last week, and it runs far better than Windows on the machine. The limitation is that the machine no longer has a CD or floppy drive (both missing in action) so to get the networking going I have to swap repeatedly to Windows to download bits, then back to Amigo etc etc.

Gnashley, I've found your replies about where to get stuff helpful (mostly, but I'm still searching for some pieces so I wonder whether it would be possible to include the IPconfig and DHCP pieces in the next version of the distribution? They are quite small, and if one had those it would be easier to get some of the other components.

Thanks for all and any replies,
Mark

Thanks for the strokes! If you downloaded the latest Amigo2.0 it includes the dhcp and dhcpcd packages.
Run 'netconfig' to setup network.