Hey Gray and everyone,
Well I don't see to much of a problem... this Slax version is booted from a CD, and there is no need for a harddrive. I could rewrite the config files so that the setting could be saved to a drive...but this is a way of surfing since the CD can nolonger be written to there is no chance of corruption.
This is a way to learn Linux and some of the more common app's without fear. Now all I have to do is figure out how to get it on to a thumb drive and boot the system. With the thumb drive the system will be more dynamic, and real. That is when I'll create an account for going on the internet.
For now I'll just try to get comfortable with linux commands and how things work.
Hello Greg
Yup Live CDs are a great invention. Once you have got the feet wet as it were and really want to learn Linux, give Gentoo Linux a try, tho there is no real, live CD as per the one you are trying now - command-line all the way - my experience in Gentoo was that the CD gave me access to the system by chrooting from the CD into the system, which saved my backside many a time. There is a good community in the forums and mostly anything you might want to know is in there someplace. The only snag is the need to compile stuff to achieve the optimum system, but the online manuals and those on the installation CDs are good too. Ideally print out the needed bit from the manual and read it right through to find out how Gentoo works and so forth. The only tricky bits I found were getting the dual-boot working (where mostly the errors were due to what passes for a typing ability), and the file /etc/fstab. Barring that things went along quite well. One last thing I never really got a hand on was the updating of the kernel as part of the regular system updates. If you can get those sorted you will most likely be more than happy with Gentoo. BTW the instal is done in 2 parts - the initial base system, which has no GUI (which strangely enough I liked quite a lot) and then the GUI bits and bobs. The initial system was very quick to build even when compiling everything, but KDE and Xorg are NOT small progs, so the idea there would be to check you have all files, then start the process and go watch a movie, then when Xorg is done, configure it, check it works correctly then start up KDE and go to bed.... Anyhow I am not going to wriye a manual here - the devs have done that for me. :)
Gray
PS: you will even be able to compile BOINC there too - optimised for your system etc
RE: Hey Gray and
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Hello Greg
Yup Live CDs are a great invention. Once you have got the feet wet as it were and really want to learn Linux, give Gentoo Linux a try, tho there is no real, live CD as per the one you are trying now - command-line all the way - my experience in Gentoo was that the CD gave me access to the system by chrooting from the CD into the system, which saved my backside many a time. There is a good community in the forums and mostly anything you might want to know is in there someplace. The only snag is the need to compile stuff to achieve the optimum system, but the online manuals and those on the installation CDs are good too. Ideally print out the needed bit from the manual and read it right through to find out how Gentoo works and so forth. The only tricky bits I found were getting the dual-boot working (where mostly the errors were due to what passes for a typing ability), and the file /etc/fstab. Barring that things went along quite well. One last thing I never really got a hand on was the updating of the kernel as part of the regular system updates. If you can get those sorted you will most likely be more than happy with Gentoo. BTW the instal is done in 2 parts - the initial base system, which has no GUI (which strangely enough I liked quite a lot) and then the GUI bits and bobs. The initial system was very quick to build even when compiling everything, but KDE and Xorg are NOT small progs, so the idea there would be to check you have all files, then start the process and go watch a movie, then when Xorg is done, configure it, check it works correctly then start up KDE and go to bed.... Anyhow I am not going to wriye a manual here - the devs have done that for me. :)
Gray
PS: you will even be able to compile BOINC there too - optimised for your system etc