Need help with MC - am going to try to wean myself off the TCE Svolli version that is installed on my NTFS drive - have been using it for a few months now - do like it - want less
"Less is more"
Tried the new MC that can read NTFS - thank you RobertS
Don't really need to write to NTFS - though that would be nice - but not required at this point and I guess we can get the tools installed afterwards - that works - actually I kinda like the READ ONLY NTFS characteristic of the new MC.
So I wanna switch...but can't. Tried a MC boot today - got a neat black screen and VI editor - kewl. Uh...ooops - got stuck in VI with no memory of how to exit and made a pencil cheat sheet for use later so I don't have to use power button.
Need help with Xorg to replace Xvesa - read up on the xorg.conf files - not sure where to stick it ...
Need help with WGET - want to try using coreutils and other functions - and get rid of busy box. I have gotten good enough with SH now that I can write a loop to find dependencies...but haven't done my first WGET yet. Not sure how this works.
I THINK?
a) wget url - no clue on what the physical URL is for these files. Help!
b) unzip to /tce/optional - never did an unzip in Linux - help here would be appreciated - have no idea what tool to even use for that.
c) wget the url.info to nail dependencies - or one of those files -
d) script through - build dependency array recursively - got that - I assume someone has written this already - if available would be appreciated.
Ok - so a file has landed. Now what? Do I ?RUN IT AT TERM?
Am going to test tinywm - don't need a desktop and not sure I even need tinywm - but it seemed like the smallest puppy in the pack.
So...that leaves XORG and WGET as the only issues to date. Any help would be appreciated.
It looks like I am going through a somewhat common step-by-step transititon
1. Windows user gets tired of viruses - swears off windows and investigates TC
2. Installs TC, tries other packages, comes back to TC.
3. Gets some progress - likes TC speed and tight install
4. Has some headaches, swears they'll switch to another distro - tries Puppy (I did - nice - cute - sweet) - finds out it crashes too - goes back to TC
5. Makes a lot of progress in TC - slowly works up to an entire hour of Linux in a day - the other 15 hours are still Windows.
6. Gets to a point when they have enough confidence with tools to use Linux for an entire day. For me that took 2 months.
7. After a week of that, suddenly discovers they aren't using Windows at all - ooops - better go back and make sure it still works. It did - sort of - switched back to TC Linux.
8. After a month of that wants to shrink it further - at least the core - and starts switching around or eliminating components. In my case I want to dump flwm, busybox, Xprogs and Xlibs - replace them with a core and a few other standards and see how it works.
Naturally I expect enough problems that I may end up putting one or more back - but for now this is the plan.
Thank you for your patience and guidance.
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