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This small HOWTO file was compiled from:
Until September 1995: After September 1995
Peter Sieg Peter Sieg
388 Morris Ave. #D Rabishauerstr.9
Summit N.J, 07901 D-37603 Holyminden/GERMANY
If someone is interested in my compilation of MiniLinux please let me know.
Mini Linux will not work with DBLSPACE. Uncompress your drive first.
To install this distribution:
You need the ULTRACOMPRESSOR-II package...(Shareware)
Space required during installation app. 25 MB.
Space required after installation app. 13 MB.
c:
md \linux
cd \linux
Now for all disk:
copy a:\*.*
sas b xlinux
del xlinux.p0?
uc es xlinux
del xlinux.uc2
Now you can start linux with linux.bat
It will load the portugese keymap. To change to us:
temporarily execute:
/usr/bin/loadkeys /usr/lib/kbd/keytables/us.map
('/' key is '" key...)
than change file /etc/rc.d/rc.keymap...
I did that already...
I also added de.map (German) and es.map (Spanish) to the directory...
X Version is X11R5!!
Xwindows: my mouse did not work. caused by selection program started in
/etc/rc.d/rc.local
just comment the lines out and restart.
Xwindows needs at least 8MB of memory. If you have less you should use
a swapfile:
dd if=/dev/zero of=/swapfile bs=1024 count =4096 # or 8192...
mkswap /swapfile 4096
sync
swapon /swapfile
# Only the last command have to be repeated each time you boot!!
# or put the folowing line in /etc/fstab:
/swapfile none swap defaults
# or use the script swap <size_in_bytes> in /usr/bin...
# if you dont specify the sizes, just swapon /swapfile will be executed!
The following have been removed:
/usr/bin/zip
/usr/bin/zipnote
/usr/bin/zipsplit
/usr/bin/lharc
/usr/bin/zoo
/usr/bin/*less*
/usr/bin/*joe*
/usr/lib/joerc
/bin/dir (replaced with scripts ls -l $1)
/usr/local/bin/* (utree)
/usr/local/lib/utree.*
/var/adm/packages/*
/var/adm/disk_contents..
/root/xmosaic
/usr/lib/lynx..
/usr/bin/lynx
/usr/bin/tin
/usr/bin/indent
/bin/bash (replaced with ash)
The following programs have been added:
/bin/ash (as a replacement for bash)
/usr/bin/basic (ChipMunk Basic Interpreter V1.0)
/usr/bin/sc (The spreadsheet program V6.21)
/usr/bin/mc (Norton Commander Clone - Excellent!!!)
/usr/games/lr (lode runner gamer svgalib)
/usr/X11/bin/xspread (same as SC under X)
/usr/X11/bin/xcalc (X calculator)
/usr/X11/bin/xeyes (I love this...)
/usr/X11/bin/xtetris (nice game)
/usr/X11/bin/xpool (pool table game)
/usr/X11/bin/xtron (tron like game)
/usr/X11/bin/xmessage (might be usefull)
/usr/X11/bin/xtalk (same as talk under X)
/usr/X11/bin/xgrab (X screen copy)
/usr/X11/bin/xedit (Tiny X editor)
/usr/X11/bin/xcoral (A very good xeditor)
/usr/X11/bin/xfig (Drawing program)
/usr/X11/bin/xv (Picture manipulations)
/lib/libgr.so.1 (needed for xv)
/usr/X11/bin/xpaint (Painting program)
/lib/libXpm.so.4 (needed for xpaint)
/usr/bin/SuperProbe (identifies your display adapter...)
/usr/bin/seejpeg (jpeg... viewer. try run startrek...)
/usr/bin/tclsh (tcl shell)
/usr/lib/libtcl.so.3 (needed for tclsh)
/usr/bin/wish (tk shell)
/usr/lib/libtk.so.3 (needed for tk shell wish)
/usr/lib/tk/demos/* (some demos)
#you need to place -font fixed before every -text statement!!
/usr/bin/deliver (small local! mail delivery program)
/usr/bin/mail (Mail/mailx...to make it work it wrote this script:
/usr/bin/sendmail
#!/bin/sh
deliver $2
#then ln -s /usr/bin/sendmail /usr/lib/sendmail
This packages/programs i would like to include in this distribution:
xbtx
oleo spreadsheet
wine windows emulator
fax programs
If you like to install other packages, i did it the following way:
# Because the cdrom on my computer did not work at the time...
I selected the appropriate packages <*.tgz> and copied them with the
windows filemanager from a cdrom to disk a:
Then i started linux:
With cd /tmp i go into the tmp directory.
With mcopy a:<package.tgz> <package.tgz> i copied the file(s) into
the current directory.
With tar -zxvf <package.tgz> i uncompressed and untared them.
Now you will see several directories and files in the /tmp directory.
Try the executables and if you want to keep them move all neccessary
files to their directories ex: /tmp/usr/bin/ash -> /usr/bin/ash.
For working with dos floppy disk to can use the mtools:
ex: mdir a: - directory of drive a:
mread -t a:howto howto - read file howto from a: to current directory
mwrite -t howto a: - write file howto to drive a:
(-t switch translates <lf> to <cr><lf> and vice versa...)
For DOS users i made a link from del to rm and from copy to cp.
That means you can use del to delete files and copy to copy them.
Also md is linked to mkdir and rd to rmdir.
You can print ascii files with following command:
p <filename> ;this is just a script under /usr/bin that inserts a <cr> at
the end of each line and then calls lpr.
This is the script p:
#!/bin/sh
cat $1 | sed -e s/$/^M/ | lpr
# ^M is CTRL-M; Use CTRL-V, CTRL-M in vi.
You get help on commands by run <cmd> --help or -?.
Try working with scripts together with the dialog program, see ex.
under /var/adm/scripts.
There is a nice monitor program. run top.
If you know Norton Commander run mc.
Try the game sasteroids.
Workbone is nice audio cdrom player.
There are some setup scripts in /var/adm/scripts/
I used one to setup my cdrom (mitsumi).
If you want to work on 2 sessions on one screen try splitvt.
To see if your mouse works, try test-mouse.
To check if Xwindows would run try X -probeonly.
In Xwindows you can abort with CTRL-ALT-BACKSPACE.
The first time you should start with startx 2>startx.log.
All messages from x will be logged in startx.log.
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