Anyone running Slakeware?

[Nathan England]

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What sound chip is installed? it's likely a ac'97.
A good cheater I found for installing modules when you're not quite sure wh=
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it is, I boot off knoppix, then look at the modules it loads.
Knoppix is incredible in that respect.

I haven't missed a module yet due to knoppix.

nathan

Am Sunday 02 February 2003 01:23 pm schrieb PLUG@sahuaro.us:
> Thanks Nathan,
>
> That sounds like a cool system! More comprehensive then tagfiles.
>
> Right now I need to find me a good tutorial on loading modules so I can g=
et
> sound and the Lucent modem working. I've spent this morning browsing the
> documentation installed (a hell of a lot, BTW) and trying to decide which
> are up to date and which are not. I'll check LDP tomorrow from work.
>
> Dennis Kibbe
>
> Quoting Nathan England <plug@the-arcanum.org>:
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> > It's really not that bad. I've been working on a package retrieval syst=
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> > for
> >
> > slack for about a year. So I have hundreds of updated packages on my
> > server and using my package system, I just type
> > arcanum install <package>  and it grabs eveything I want and
> > installs/upgrades
> > it. It works great for my business. arcanum.sh has the ability to update
> > everything through a cron job. I've also been adding service checks and
> > failover to it. It's much nicer than the original slack, but I may be t=
he
> > only one to think so! With out open source, it never would have been a
> > thought. I also rewrote the installation scripts, instead of dialog it's
> > a text console, but it also adds the ability of keeping track of
> > everything you
> >
> > do, then copies it all to a floppy disk, so if a week later you've
> > trashed something, you pop the cd in, along with the floppy and it
> > installs everything exactley the way it was. It is so far working perfe=
ct
> > on IDE systems, but I've been having some problems on scsi systems
> > because my only scsi test system is a VMware scsi machine! Granted that=
's
> > how I do all mytesting. I also have i686 built packages for kde 3.1. If
> > you're interested
> >
> > in those, let me know, along with any language packs you want.
> >
> > Of course, if I wasn't in Payson, or broadband was available, you could
> > just arcanum.sh install kde3.1
> >
> > nathan
> >
> > Am Freitag 31 Januar 2003 07:55 nachmittags/abends schrieb Dennis Kibbe:
> > > On Friday 31 January 2003 12:01 am, you wrote:
> > > > Now that there are a few of us talking, did you have a question abo=
ut
> >
> > it?
> >
> > > > I've been patiently waiting!!
> > > >
> > > > nathan
> > > >
> > > > Am Mittwoch 29 Januar 2003 08:14 nachmittags/abends schrieb Dennis
> >
> > Kibbe:
> > > > > I'm curious to know if anyone on the list is running Slakeware.
> > > > >
> > > > > Dennis Kibbe
> > >
> > > Nathan, not yet. I'll planning to install it on my prime system this
> > > weekend (maybe even tonight) replacing Debian Woody. I'll gain KDE 3
> > > :-) and lose APT
> > >
> > > :-(
> > >
> > > A test install on a spare drive went smoothly and left only sound &
> > > modem to configure by hand - same as when I installed Woody.
> > >
> > > One reason for switching besides KDE 3 (I know I can hack Woody to get
> > > it) is I feel I should learn to complie kernels and programs from
> > > source (and do other daring things:-)).  Up to now I've been dependent
> > > on binaries if
> >
> > I
> >
> > > wanted something.
> > >
> > > I do wonder how much more trouble it will be to keep system updated
> > > since APT made that job child's play.
> > >
> > > Dennis Kibbe
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> > - --
> > Nathan England
> >
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