Re: [Dragora-bug] how to complete my installation?

[Matias A. Fonzo]

El Thu, 28 Mar 2013 04:42:43 +0100
Marek Buras <address@hidden> escribió:
> Hi!
> 
> Dnia 2013-03-27, śro o godzinie 21:30 +0100, address@hidden pisze:
> > 
> > Hi 
> > 
> > Using Puppy Linux (thank you Puppy Linux, you open us the way
> > to do intuitive that what is not clearly explained in the doc of
> > other distro's) I did open my ISO (one hit on it in Rox) and find in
> > /mnt/sda5/isos/dragora-2.2.i486.iso/packages a list named
> > «packages.txt». Having the list did I search with geany (of Puppy
> > Linux) where my 5 packages, 2 files each (*.tlz + *.tlz.sig each)
> > are to find where and did copy (drag + drop) them
> > into /mnt/sda3/root (my dragora-partition). 
> > 
> > And after rebooting into dragora, I did enter in
> > the console in commando line: 
> > 
> > _$ pkg add kernel*_ 
> > 
> > etc. 
> 
> You can also mount ISO images using ordinary mount command. Let's say
> you have /mnt/iso directory (you can create it as root using 'mkdir
> -p /mnt/iso'), then you can do:
> mount -o loop /path/to/your/dragora.iso /mnt/iso
> 
> Then just change directory to the one that contains packages and do
> all 'pkg add' magic you need ;-)
> 
> You can also install all packages from that directory using:
> find /mnt/iso -type f -name "*.tlz" -exec pkg add {} \;
> However, this might not be safe...
>   
> At the end, remember to unmount it with: umount /mnt/iso
> 
> > The clock is not right 
> > 
> 
> Clock can be set with "date" command. Use "man date" for more details.
> You can use hwclock command to save the time settings to the BIOS. See
> man hwclock for details. As far as I remember there is no ntpdate
> command on Dragora and I don't know how to sync the clock using NTP
> protocol on this system.

Just a comment, the tool `tzconfig' can be used to configure the
timezone: http://dragora.org/en/files/2x/menutools.html
 
> > Xdm starts not himself but can
> > be started extra out the console. 
> > 
> 
> Please check if its "service" is properly configured:
> 
> 1. Is there "xdm" directory inside /service ? (should be symbolic link
> to /etc/sv/xdm)
> 2. Is /service/xdm/run executable?
> 
> If not, create missing files:
> ln -s /etc/sv/xdm /service/
> chmod +x /etc/sv/xdm/run (just to be sure)

Another comment, the xdm service is not enabled (activated) by default.
Some firmwares (blobs) can be missing in linux-libre. Visit
http://www.h-node.org and http://www.gnu.org/software/linux-libre,
is a good start to see what hardware is supported.
 
> > dhcp doesn't start = the distro is
> > not really usable, as the most what I do, I do it in the web... 
> > 
> > I did
> > find a command dhcpd but it claims absence of configuration. 
> > 
> > And I
> > find no explanation what is the matter with the 2. ISO
> > (dragora-2.2-plus.iso) to install it easily and work with it. 
> > 
> > What is
> > to do especially for the dhcp? 
> 
> dhcpd is a DHCP server. dhclient is a DHCP client, so you can use it
> with: dhclient eth0 (assuming eth0 is your network interface).
> Does wicd daemon work for you? If not, try looking at /service
> directory (there should be wicd symlink inside /service. If not, you
> can create it similarly to "xdm case"). wicd package has a graphical
> tool for configuring your network and can be used to manage your
> connection. If that's not what you want, you can start dhclient with
> system boot in /etc/rc.d/rc.local (this script should be executable)
> 
> --- 8< ---
> # Part of /etc/rc.d/rc.local
> # if there is /sbin/dhclient executable binary, start it on eth0 
> # interface
> [ -x /sbin/dhclient ] && /sbin/dhclient eth0
> --- 8< ---
> 
> I'm not on Dragora currently and typed all of this from memory, so
> there may be some mistakes. Dragorians, feel free to correct me ;-)
> 
> Hope that helps.
> Happy hacking!


Regards,
Matias.