iv been trying to install damn small linux to a virtrial hard disk and i came to a problem it says on the web site to 1) Boot up the DSL livecd. If your computer does not support booting from CDROM drive, then download the boot floppy image from the DSL website and get the RAWRITE32.exe program and create a boot floppy disk. Then use the boot floppy + liveCD to start up DSL. so do i put RAWRITE32.exe in the boot floppy image or what. do i have to download RAWRITE32.exe and the boot floppy at all ??? and when i try to reboot dsl it says "whit for the live cd to eject and close the cd tray then hit enter " so shoud i unmout the cd or just hit enter p.s im useing virtual box
you don't need the boot floppy because you can boot from a CD, so ignore that. When you reboot it is telling you to remove the CD because it assumes you want to boot the OS installed on your hard drive, not the CD.
i fegerd it out, but how can i install things on it that is not from MyDSL extensions like ideals emulator and other programs with a .tar.gz
ok how would i find that out, when i tried to install 7zip it was a .tar.gz and it extracted to a folder opt or something but theirs to icon or any thing to open just files with a binary icon
you don't, they are a compressed archive like zip and rar. they do not usually contain compiled binaries.
i think i kinda fingered it out after extraction you run a command line, but some programs say they need libraries like GTK+ 2.10 or higher GLib 2.12 or higher Pango 1.14 or higher X.Org 1.0 or higher gnome but how do i know if i have them and how do i get/install them?
if it says you need them it generally means you don't have them, in which case you have to install them. Which again, depends on the package manager your distro uses. Get a proper beginner's distro thats widely used such as Mandriva or SuSe and learn with that.
