Installation on iomega USB ZIP250 drive

[PF]

Hi all,

I have successfully installed and booted CorePlus from a iomega ZIP250 drive (in short, I have an old machine with a bios which has a boot from USBZIP drive option and I want to use CorePlus to install other distros on that machine).

I amended the bootoption to use waitusb=5, TCL boots, FLWM starts and I have network access 

However, when I try to install firefox (I havent tried anything else yet) from APPS and then reboot, FLWM does not start. I noted on reboot a number of libraries are no longer being loaded. startx does not exist !

Could anyone help me in my investigations and give me some pointers as to what is preventing the libraries being load ?

Thanks

[Juanito]

Did you set Xvesa, flwm, aterm and wbar to load "onboot"?

[PF]

Thanks for the reply, so what has happened since

1. I realised the CorePlus ISO was only for installing TCL ! so, I burned the ISO to a USB stick, booted and then used the desktop installer to try and install on the the ZIP disk. This, however, proved unsucessfull as the installer "hung" at partitioning, formating and did not proceed further
2. Installed parted onto the USB and then partitioned the ZIP disk and then;

umount -l /mnt/dev/sdc1
mkfs -t ext4 /dev/sda1

Then back to desktop installer and installed the 64bit version without partitioning and formatting! The ZIP disk successfully booted to the command line where I then installed the packages

tce-load -wi Xvesa flwm aterm wbar

But Xvesa fails

Xvesa.tcz.md5.txt not found

I also tried Xorg but that gives a similar message to Xvesa

So successfull installation of TCL core but unable to load flwm. Is this a repository problem ? or do I need specific versions of Xvesa/Xorg ?


Thanks

[Juanito]

There is no 64bit version of Xvesa, you need to use Xfbdev or Xorg-7.7

[PF]

Thanks I will give Xorg-7.7 ago,

Any ideas why Xorg is not being found ?

[Rich]

Hi PF
This doesn't work:

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tce-load -wi Xorg-7.7.tcz