User Feedback :: Problems with 0.6.2
Good download, bad CD.
I did test the md5 checksum. It was ok. I just burnt it to a business card cd and it worked fine. Sorry for the false alarm. I just wanted to see if anyone else had any problems before I started to troubleshoot too much.
I've been using a 3" CD/RW for DSL since I currently have about 10 business card cds laying around with old versions of DSL on them. Because new releases come out so often it's easier to just format the CD/RW and burn the new DSL on it. The 3" CD is small enough for the pocket too. Even made a custom cover for it. : ( I hate to see the old girl go. I'll try to format and burn DSL on it one more time. I might have to retire her to the trash can though.
Anyhow, thanks for the fast input. I'm glad to hear that others are keeping up with the new releases too. I don't now about you but once I catch wind of a new release I start checking daily.
I see that the Synaptic script has not been added. Bummer, I was looking forward to that being built in. Oh well, just as easy to restore it from the USB jump drive.
Thanks Again!
Tried 6.2 on my old Mitac (64 M, 2? G) laptop. The previous dist worked well. but now i dont get a question for resolution and it reports - fatal IO error 104 .... - and the process halts. I cannot use this -hope the next will ask for screen resulutions.
My Damn Small Linux 0.6.2 iso worked fine the first time. Was suprised to see
how the boot up process has been shortened. When I " knoppix restore=/dev/hdb2" at the boot prompt, after the short server/mouse/resolution
setup, my desktop comes right up, without a restart of the window manager.
I have my own opening_message.html for dillo, and that's what greets me.
That I put in /home/damnsmall/.xinitrc, and restore that along with wvdial (sadly left out since dsl 0.5.3.1) and Foxfire.
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I'm not sure if I like the gtk (purple) interface.
The buttons on web pages look odd, and I would prefer that they look exactly like they would if viewed in Foxfire on Windows XP or Redhat 9, mainstream distros.
To demo this OS, DSL, to those users, everything must be the same, and they are not supposed to be able to tell what OS they are on. If that is true, one can demonstrate that this OS can produce the same results, Foxfire-wise as viewing a web page on XP, for instance. All that, without the need for a big expensive hard drive to contain the OS. I had an 80 GB maxtor fail, and my interest in live cd distros was part of the fallout, as I did not want to buy another.
Of course, 0.6.1could display web pages like XP.
The gtk change was made for 0.6.2 for reasons I do not fully understand, or were disclosed.
Perhaps for space or performance reasons, I would hope. DSL 0.6.2 is fast, so
maybe that change is part of the mix.
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FYI
On my system, the new GTK background looks like the color gray, not purple.
I burnt two cd's cause it won't allow me to burn on a cdrw, and it comes up with the same message on two separate computer, boot sector segmentation panic.
What do I do?
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