[arachne] Re: D*** BasicLinux

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On Wed, 20 Dec 2006 19:04:30 -0500 (EST), ewalt@xxxxxxxx wrote:

> Have you tried subscribing to the Basic Linux mailing list? Maybe they
> can help.

Yes, I have subscribed. But something -- personal pride maybe --
has prevented me from going to them and saying that it is a heap
of crap where almost nothing works. And what does work at first,
fails very quickly.

What I would like first of all is to find some documentation, for
BasicLinux specifically, that doesn't refer to features that are
only in the big versions.

Or is BL documentation a contradiction in terms? Something so
basic don't need no farnarklin' documentation....

The latest is that I downloaded some Linux documentation under
DOS/Arachne and just now I tried to move it under BL from
/DOS/arachne/download to /howto where I have stored the other howto
files.

But BL informs me that there isn't any free space on the drive!

That's cow hickies! There's over 300 megs of free space on that
HDD according to DOS!

How much does the d*** thing want? Is it as bloated as Windoze?

While I had it open I thought I'd log on again and look for some
more documentation, so at the command prompt I entered ppp-on,
just like I did last time I had BL connect for me.

BL responded as follows:

/usr/sbin/pppd: This system lacks kernel support for PPP. Thgis
could be because the PPP kernel is not loaded, or because the
kernel is not configured for PPP> See the README.linux file in
ppp-2.3.7 distribution.
service #0: pppd failure at 03:22 PM Thu Dec 21, 2006

What the farnarkle is all that about???????

D*** it all! I've _used_ ppp-on previously. It worked then. It
won't work now.

Has something been deleted while my back was turned?

And what is this README.linux file in the ppp-2.3.7 distribution?

I shall have to go back to DOS and connect with Arachne so I can
search for it....

It makes me wonder, does BasicLinux work at all? The only
commands that work are d, links and mc. The documentation says to
enter man bash or info bash to find out what commands are
available. But they both return "not found".

I'm oh so close to wiping it off the HDD and forgetting that I
ever heard of it....

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