0.6 is ready

Forum: Site News
Topic: 0.6 is ready
started by: John

Posted by John on Feb. 17 2004,07:36

All the mirrors are now updated. I want everyone to know that Robert Shingledecker is responsible for virtually all the improvements in this release. He really did an amazing job.

For details check out:
< http://damnsmalllinux.org/notes.html >

Or, just go download it:
< http://damnsmalllinux.org/download.html >

Posted by l0st on Feb. 17 2004,14:14

OH JOHN!!!
THANKYOU!111
Dsl has finally detected my NIC and now I can use DSL unaided by VMWARE!11
OH JOY! It will be on my harddrive in no time.

Posted by TyphoonMentat on Feb. 17 2004,16:00

Thanks for the new release

However, if the dpkg program is installed with the dpkg-restore script, wouldn't that mean you'd have to do a dpkg-restore before you could install any .deb packages while running from CD? I think there are some scripts out there that download the .deb and extract it with dpkg -x to /home/damnsmall or /opt, and these wouldn't work without a dpkg-restore first (or would they?).

Posted by John on Feb. 17 2004,17:47

One of the things Robert did was to make the dpkg restoration process restore not just the dpkk/ folder but all the dpkg* and apt* utilities. They are quite bulky, and we saved some space by doing it this way.

Posted by Modrak on Feb. 17 2004,21:05

Whoo I had 0.6 yesterday morning but error with ISO so I downloaded again at 17:45 and it's the best !!! New kernel...WHEEHAA SUPA DUPA

Posted by Del on Feb. 18 2004,06:10

Huzzah! Now my soundcard works!

Guess I'll quit diddling with upgrading the kernel, and get to writing up the DSL Remastering Howto.

Posted by Rapidweather on Feb. 18 2004,13:47

Soundcard works? Gee, I gotta try it now!

Posted by loupgarou21 on Feb. 18 2004,23:16

just installed 0.6, installed beautifully and so far I'm pretty happy with it. one problem so far (unfortunately I wasn't paying enough attention to what I was doing so this won't be real descriptive,) when I first did 'sudo dpkg-restore' I got a message saying something like '/usr/sbin/dpkg-install.sh not found' and then restore would quit, I tried it a couple of more times to make sure it wasn't a one time fluke, then I went in search of dpkg-install.sh and never found it. After a while I decided to try 'sudo dpkg-restore' again and it installed just fine. This time I was in /sbin when I ran it, the first time I was in /home/damnsmall

Just thought I would drop a note in here about it.

[edit]Oh, just thought of one more thing, when it worked I also had the dsl cd mounted, the first time I didn't, not sure if that would make a difference[/edit]

Posted by Modrak on Feb. 19 2004,20:01

I'm trying to play my music on my favourite player (mpg123) and whoops...nothing happens, only this error

Code Sample

damnsmall@box # mpg123 /mnt/hda2/music/fun/romale.mp3
No default libao driver available.

ogg123 is doing the same (with ogg files of course)
--------UPDATE-----------
As I read the forum, I see that some people get their sound-cards working for example on Epia M10000.
I thing the bug is in the new (bad configured/unconfigurable) driver.

Posted by Del on Feb. 21 2004,04:36

Quote (Modrak @ Feb. 19 2004,07:01)

As I read the forum, I see that some people get their sound-cards working for example on Epia M10000.

Ya, it works on my M10k. Haven't tried DSL on my "real" box yet, so I can't help there.

0.5.3.1's audio worked on the big machine (it's a soyo dragon ultra-platinum)(ooh, shiny), but not on the Epia.

Posted by Puto on Feb. 21 2004,13:38

Does DSL 0.6 has a 2.6 linux kernel? OR does it still use an old 2.4 kernel??

Posted by TyphoonMentat on Feb. 21 2004,15:51

It uses the 2.4 kernel still.