Getting started?

[Jason W]

I'll check into xorg tonight, though it is working fine here and I re-imported it yesterday.

[thane]

Thanks Jason. It's entirely possible that something is wrong with my setup (always my first assumption), but it's interesting that theYinYeti is seeing a similar issue.

edit: What the hey. Re-imported xorg-all without changing anything else and re-booted. Got a desktop! Still had error messages during boot, tcWbarConf button on the Control Panel was dimmed, and wbar had 2 xterminal [sp?] icons, along with an "Import" icon and the usual TC ones. Will try playing with this and see what develops.

[roberts]

Sounds normal for this stage of rc.

Two X terms one is UXTerm - unicode the other is normal XTerm
tc-wbarconf is there will investigate why it is greyed on control panel. You can run from Xterm.
Many boot messages are displayed and  can be ignored.

[theYinYeti]

Umm… I'll try and re-import xorg again, then. I'll do this on the real laptop this time, just in case it might help…
Have a nice day

[theYinYeti]

No matter how many times I try, xorg-all is still a failure. But if I load-sce xorg-all and startx without rebooting, then xorg does start and work. That is, after I have run “chown root:root /tmp/.X*”.

As soon as I restart, I get that dreaded “can't run '/sbin/getty': No such file or directory” message
Even though I don’t see a clear relation between the message and the following “explanation”, do you think it could be because dCore is trying to auto-launch X11 upon auto-login, then X11 fails to start because of the permissions in /tmp/, then login tries again to auto-launch X11, and so on in a loop? What do you think?

And you, how do you handle this problem with permissions in /tmp/ when launching “startx”?

[roberts]

What is your permission on /tmp

Should be: drwxrwxrwt  root.staff  /tmp
No change. Same as Core native.

[theYinYeti]

Sorry roberts, I used the wrong word. It's not a permissions issue, but rather a owner issue. /tmp is OK. It is /tmp/.X… (I don't remember the exact name) that is wrongly owned. It is owned by tc:staff whereas startx expect this directory to be  owned by root:root.
Just to leave no doubt, my dCore is completely unmodified. I took vmlinuz and dCore.gz from the ISO file, and put them on my USB pendrive. Then I just created an entry for them in my grub.cfg (Grub2).

[roberts]

dCore-install is now available. Use the typical import command to fetch.
dCore-install is a command line script to aid in installing dCore to pendives and frugal hard drive.
It it dervived from tc-install so operation is quite similiar. Tested zip, hdd, and frugal.
As with any installation program proceed with caution as specifying the wrong drive/partition can ruin your day.

[theYinYeti]

This is a good idea, roberts! I will try this. Thank you.