Slackware :: Install New Slax Module (from Slax Site) On Ancient Backtrack 2?
Jan 9, 2010
Is it possible to install new slax module (from slax site) on ancient backtrack 2? Or it won't work because of versions? I would like to update tor by installing this module on bt2:
http://www.slax.org/modules.php?action=detail&id=2277
I installed slax to my hard drive. I am using ubuntu. In fact I think to install xp that partition of my disk but I want to try it on disk. It was ext3 already my partion which disk I was installed slax. I did my job by following commands I quoted. But my disk was sda1 and I changed command according to that. for example I gave some commands like this ( /mnt/sda1/slax ) Then my slax working but kde doesn't start. when I gave startx command it try to start. I can see desktop wallpaper but then it comes to start kde parts it turns [URL]
I am trying to connect to the net wirelessly using Slax off my USB stick. I did the best I could using the wireless configure tool but Firefox will not surf - no connection. The configure tool shows that I am 'partly' connected in that it shows signal strength in green but I noticed that there is no entry for IP address. Am I suppose to know this and enter it? In LMDE, I see the IP as 192.168.2.10 and other addresses. Do I need to enter this stuff?
So, I was playing with Fathom's new Slax Remix with Zen kernel 2.6.33 and decided to try a manual install to hdd and see if it would boot. [URL]. New slax remix is here: [URL]I surprised when after doing the install I ended up with a beautiful and fully functional KDE desktop all in 860MB of space! Although many things will break if upgrading, etc. I was impressed that with KDE running it was only using about 140MB ram! incl cache, etc. And, fluxbox is included too as well as pkgtool, and xwmconfig. The complete How-To I did is in the slax remix thread at above link, and also here [URL].
Hints: After installing to hdd, usb-hdd, etc. Grab slackpkg and the gnupg stuff and install any other pkgs. Be careful about upgrading... I added kdeadmin pkg from slax module and some other stuff so my install is at 944MB now and look at output of "free" in screenshot.
I decided to finally give it a try last night and made a Live USB for Slax. It booted up quickly, pretty much everything worked right away, and after getting the Wifi working I decided to call it a night.
My project for today was attempting to install Java, but I haven't had much success. There are modules on the Slax site for this, but a. they are unverified and b. I want to delve into linux further than just downloading everything off a website. I downloaded the latest Java package for linux, which was a self-extracting .bin. I followed steps 1 through 4 here, but step 5 didn't work. I got the error message
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Extracting... UnZipSFX 5.50 of 17 February 2002, by Info-ZIP (Zip-Bugs@lists.wku.edu). inflating: jre-6u20-linux-i586.rpm error: db4 error(2) from dbenv->open: No such file or directory error: cannot open Packages index using db3 - No such file or directory (2) error: cannot open Packages database in /var/lib/rpm
I then tried using the rpm -UvH command on the rpm file, but got the same error. Knowing that Slax modules are .lzm files, I used rpm2tgz and tgz2lzm to convert it to a module, but it still doesn't work. I'm hoping that someone can point me in the right direction, other than "Download this unverified module from the Slax site."
In addition, a problem I haven't encountered yet but is foreseeable: In those instructions that I linked above for downloading and installing Java, the "Enable and Configure" section requires altering parts of the Firefox install directory. However, since this is Slax, Firefox is in a module. To do that part, do I have to use lzm2dir in order to get into Firefox's innerworkings, or what?
My laptop pc is corrupted and it wont start up Windows and my cd rom is fried it wont work. The only way to use the pc is to run slax or any distro of Linux by USB. I want to fully install Ubuntu on the laptop but the install file is .exe and wont open up with Linux. I would like to know if there is a way to download and fully install ubuntu on my pc via USB.
I have a windows 98 box.I have a slax ISO and a slax TAR. My slax TAR has all the modules I want.
My windows 98 hard drive has only 1 partition and is fully formatted.I have used windows 98 to download my TAR.I want to dual boot slax and windows 98.How do I go about this? So do I have to repartition?
Before the other day, I'd copied a live CD to ramdisk and run it from there before, but the disk was INX (INX is not X), a live CD based on Ubuntu that runs entirely in the text mode, no GUI. INX is a terrific product: colorful, educational, light, agile, fun to use, and and often damned useful, but when an OS only uses text, you may not notice how much running from the RAM speeds up an OS. Previously, I'd assumed that the best reason to run a Live CD from the RAM was to free up the CD ROM drive. When I started running a full KDE 3.5.10 Desktop from the RAM, it didn't take me long to notice the awesome boost in speed and performance.
The computer has the fastest access to the data that's in the RAM. (The "A" in "RAM" stands for "access", right?) So the machine is faster. As the RAM gets larger, I'm sure more and more live CDs are going to offer the RAMdisk option. Right now both INX and SLAX share the characteristic of being exceptionally small CDs, and that makes them well suited for this kind of application. The "minimal" version of Slax, the basic CD without any modules added, is less than 200 mbs, which fits very nicely on my 1024MB RAM. I now use the minimal SLAX cd to initiate the system, and I keep a collection of the modules on my hard drive to copy to the RAM and activate at will.
Here's a couple of screenshots: [URL] I'm using Wine here to run my one and only favorite Windows program, a text to speech program called READ PLEASE. Note that I am also running KTorrent, which is uploading from and downloading to my external MyBook hard drive. [URL]. Here's a shot of yakuake, which is sort of like Konsole with superpowers. I just upgraded my hard drive KDE system to 4.2.3, and they still haven't fixed Yakuake yet. I know it's been reported, so I'm sure it'll be taken care of.
I want to know exactly how to connect to the internet in slax-6.1.2 VMware Workstation program being through what it is asking how to do it on the website, I can find on Google.
For years I have used a Slax live CD on a laptop to clone internal HDDs to USB HDDs. I recently purchased a Sony VPCF136FM laptop with Intel Core i7 CPU. It apparently has USB 3.0 ports. The problem is the USB ports are dead with Slax. There is a USB devise driver available for Windows 7 from Sony but nothing for Linux operating systems. Can this driver be ported to Linux? It is an exacutable (XXX.exe). The chip for the USB Host is from Renesas Electronics (no help there, either). Where can I find a device driver to use with Slax and how would I install it?
I want to install BackTrack as a virtual PC in my Slackware current. What is the FREE application of virtualisation that fit best with Slackware to do this. Do you think my ASRock Desktop with his Intel Atom processor is strong enough for virtualisation.
I have installed Backtrack 4 on my Laptop, I would like to learn the security tools in this distribution. I could not find much materials in Backtrack Official site. how could I explore the available tools and their uses in Backtrack distribution.
I like to start a web site with login page similar to Facebook, Skype or QQ. Is there a pool of php programs that I can download, then change it for my own purpose?Any body doing this? I would start one if none more knowledgable to do it. Do not think XOOPs etc will fit my needs considering later development of my site idea.
While I'm a 37+ year veteran of the Computer Wars, I'm a total nube regarding Linux, Unix, Solaris, etc. Please tolerate my highly elementary questions.
I intend to install Fedora on a number of machines that I possess. Newer equipment seems to be relatively straight forward. However, an ANCIENT ISA bus PC has me scratching my head. The HDD and optical drive are SCSI. IIRC, either floppy disk or HDD are the only boot possibilities.
All suggestions as to how I get the i386 version of Fedora V11 onto the SCSI HDD are most welcome. Perhaps installing an "inexpensive" PCI bus SCSI adapter in a newer machine, with Fedora 11 installed, and using the existing installation to build the new SCSI SYSRES is the best available method.
BTW, no PnP support exists on the ancient machine. I've my share of experience avoiding IRQ conflicts and need to know how to get the IRQ info. into Fedora. Maybe I'll try to install the ISA/PCMCIA hardware that's gathering dust.
I've been trying to install module em28xx in a Slackware 12.0 installation that has been operating for several years. This is the em28xx that is part of the Slackware 12.0 distribution itself (kernel 2.6.21.5).
Unfortunately, although em28xx is fine, modprobe has a problem with dependent module i2c-core, which is generating an "Invalid module format" message. The system is using the generic Slackware 12.0 kernel, not the huge kernel.
Today I loged to my pc Slackware that remain online all th night.I run dolphin to search for a file.Dolphin was giving me a blank page, nothing ..I thought I had to reboot , and that's what I did.When I rebooted I was under backtrack 3 OSMy whole disk was resumed to a 3 GB partition with backtrack on it.
When i install the Authen:Pam module it gives me the same error that i get when i install cyrus sasl2 . So it basically looks like u have to fix the perl module error first how can
I need to install module u32 into the netfilter module for kernel 2.6.27.
I did not see the source code in the kernel version I have. where can I find the code for U32 module.
I have checked "netfilter.org" and looks like POM is discontinued. Is the u32 module committed to kernel version 2.6.27 or need to patch it. If yes, where can I find the patch?
I wrote a small site to search slackware packages containing a wanted file.slak.homelinux.org..It do searches in official slackware repositories and some non official.It is based on PACKAGES.TXT, so all repositories containing it can be used.If a repository contain even the MANIFEST.bz2 file, then this tool can search packages from its content.Results are cliccable link so to download the package directly.
I can't install my backtrack dvd burning, have trouble when cpoying data in 56%, have youcomclusion for my terouble??? size of btr4r2.iso= 1.9 gb on the disk2034880512 bytes)
how do i install a linux distro that doesnt natively support Intel fakeraid, using dmraid and a livedisk. the raid is already setup, its just that backtrack cant find it because it doesnt have the right software.
Ok so I did some stupid stuff and tried to install some of the Backtrack 4 tools. Now when I tried to install VLC player in terminal I get this:"ph@top:~$ sudo apt-get install vlc Reading package lists. Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable distribution that some required packages have not yet been created or been moved out of Incoming. The following information may help to resolve the situation: