Hi all,

I got zip slack going on my buddies old pc.

I'm under 250 meg and surfing the net on it LOL I cannot believe it. zip slack is amazing. I'm thinking of typing out my commands, setup and posting it. This pc is twice as fast as it was, NO JOKE !

As a side note: Pat V needs to put a little line in the how to for zip slack that once you get into Zip slack to setup lilo you type liloconfig at console and go from there. Now that I said it you say sure, I know that...nah believe me you get in and your like "where it my /etc/lilo.conf it's missing!?" LOL that's how stripped down it is.

Any way, I want to get sound on this Yamaha OPL3sa2 onboard audio, can I simply download the OSS drivers and install them on this.

I've got the following packes in on zip-slack:
-misc fonts
-100 dpi fonts
-xorg
-opera webbrowser

So that get's you into X by the way and under 250 meg with internet.

Next question: firewall rules? Can i copy them over from a different pc? How do I set up a firewall on this?


Thank you.

You may run into a lot of missing dependencies if you do this. You'll have a better time digging out the slackware packages for OSS/ALSA and installing them using installpkg and keep installing dependencies until you get it working. That's not going to be nice (I can't remember how stripped down ZipSlack is though).

I would recommend projectfiles.com's rc.firewall available here:
http://projectfiles.com/firewall/. Installing it should be a simple matter of downloading the "non-installer" version, copying it to /etc/rc.d, making it executable and then editing it to suit your setup (normally it's one or two lines of changes at most and sometimes you don't have to do ANYTHING).

zipslack is such a huge dissapointment for a gui based linux. might as well go advanced in setup of install.