[armedslack] Re: RiscPC install instructions for ARMedslack ?
Mark Smith
markinnz at gmail.com
Thu Jan 4 19:37:31 UTC 2007
On 1/5/07, Stuart Winter <m-lists at biscuit.org.uk> wrote:
> > Well I'm 95% done .. got to go get a proper hard disk on wednesday
> > since the 1.7Gb one is a pain to squeeze onto :-)
>
> Is that big enough?
Nope :-)
>
> > I've done anything the hard way (any chance of Armed-Knoppix ? :-)
>
> How can I put this politely. "No" :)
Some people are just not open to ideas! Sheesh!!
>
> > running "startx" does nothing except give me an "X" cursor and then
>
> If you have 2MB of VRAM on the RiscPC, it should be fine.
I think a full install is best, I must have missed something, no
matter will know for sure soon.
>
> > Oh yes one other thing ... when the RiscOS boot Linux app starts, is
> > there a way for it to do it cleanly ? Risc OS always complains that
> > the machine was not shutdown nicely the next time it starts.
>
> Which version of RISC OS is this? I have never seen this before.
> I checked out what *shutdown does, and it sends all the WIMP apps a call
> to be nice and shut themselves down, then probably creates a file or sets
> a flag somewhere to indicate everything was good.
>
It's RISC OS 4.39
Thanks!
Mark
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