X11 installation won't complete

[nizami]

Trying to install VL 5.8 standard on a PII system with 4GB HD (3.5 GB root; 500 MB swap) and 96 MB RAM. Followed instructions on the Installation Guide but installation freezes up at 31% mark during X11 installation everytime. Why is this? How can I install the GUI later?

Thanks for your help.

[bigpaws]

Did you check the download with against
the MD5 sum?

Sounds like possibly a bad burn.

Bigpaws

[nizami]

Hi - checked the md5sum with winmd5sum.exe program and they matched. I managed to install the VL without the X11, but now the question is how to install X11? Do I need to burn a new image for the X11 installer? Is there another/better GUI to install? Really haven't worked with Linux before (just Unix when Lynx was THE way to get to the internet) so the help is appreciated. Thanks.

[M0E-lnx]

Just out of curiosity, how much space do you have left on the drive?

Code:

df -h

If you enough space, you can install X11 from slapt-get with a couple of tricks

[nizami]

I have 3 GB left on my HD. What would be the best way to install X11?

[M0E-lnx]

If you've got a live network connection in VL, you can install X via the package manager (slapt-get)

first, open your /etc/slapt-get/slapt-getrc file as root

Code:

mcedit /etc/slapt-get/slapt-getrc

You'll see lines like

SOURCE=ftp://ftp-osl.osuosl.org/pub/vectorlinux/veclinux-5.8/packages

Make sure you have a line that ends with packages, another one for "extra", another one for "testing" and another one for "patches"

Save the file (press F2) and Exit
execute this command

Code:

slapt-get --update

after that completes with no errors, you can execute this

Code:

slapt-get --install x11-6.9.0 x11-devel-6.9.0 x11-fonts-cyrillic-6.90 x11-fonts-scale-6.9.0 x11-fonts-misc-6.9.0

That should get you an X install.. After that, you should be able to run x and get at least an xterm

You'll need a window manager, you can install xfce the same way you installed X
use

Code:

slapt-get --search <name_of_package>

to search for a particular package

HTH