On Thu, 3 Aug 2006 10:54:32 -0700 (PDT), Andrew Perry wrote:
Lo and behold, last night I hooked up a patch cable to my wife's router, booted up Damn Small Linux on an old PC, and it just plain worked ! Having tried off and on for many years to make linux _useful_ to me (not just a novelty), I was really excited.
Awesome! :)
Unfortunately, a lot of work lies ahead of me before I can really convert to linux: for example, I tried to listen to my favorite radio station 2gb.com, and successfully downloaded real player for linux, but got stuck installing it... I'll try to figure it out eventually, but didn't have time last night.
You may need to have root privileges to install Real Player. If you have sudo configured, you can probably use a command like: chmod +x realplayer10.bin sudo ./realplayer10.bin If you do not have sudo configured, you will need the root password. If you installed this system, then you should know it. In this case, something like this should do the trick: su - cd /path/to/RealPlayer-file-you-downloaded chmod +x realplayer10.bin ./realplayer10.bin In both cases, you'll want to use the actual filename for the RealPlayer installation binary. The "chmod" command makes the file executable. Hope this helps. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- William Smith wsmith-at-chezsmith-dot-com Fall River, MA http://www.chezsmith.com Microsoft Windows doesn't HAVE security holes... It IS a security hole. * TAG! v3.2 *