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Hi All,

Been trying out Anitx RC1 and like it quite a bit but were is iceweasel ?
Nothing happens when i click on "browser" on the fluxbox menu or select
it off the net sub menu. Could it be a bad burn of the iso or simply not included at the last minute ?
thanks
jmt

using a dell c521 dual booting win xp and fedora 7 but with the intent
to put AntiX on a box with a via 733 cpu with 128mb of ram.

jmt
Can you run iceweasel from a command prompt?
Also, does it show up in the Fluxbox - File Editing - Menu?

I would suspect a bad install. I reoaded antiX today and the browser ran perfectly from the menu. Guess it is possible that you got a bad ISO but that is a long shot.

I would suggest doing another install and, if that fails, then reburning the CD or, preferred, getting a fresh download from another mirror.

Don

Hi,

Thanks for the replies, decided to burn a new iso and try again. This time every thing work as far as Iceweasel goes. Both the menu item for browser and the using the run box brought iceweasel up without problem.

So I decide to retry the first disk to see if the run box would work since I didn't remember trying it. The first time I try to boot into the first disk in ends at a command prompt with the suggestion to try control-alt-F7 or F8. Neither worked so I rebooted, now it goes smoothly through the whole sequence and I'm at the desktop, if that's what it's called when your using just a WM. Iceweasel comes up no problem... I have no idea what happened yesterday.

It's still my favorite Fluxbox distro and I will post my results with the
Via Box when I get a chance to install it hopefully next week.

thanks again
james

I thought I had a bad burn from a dependable Plextor and used a Sony to burn a 2nd copy. I think the problem will end up being a goofy CD/ROM.

I had picked up three machines at work from the trash pile. All are Compaq Deskpro EN models. This one is a 866 Celeron with 128mb RAM. The first one that would not load my burned copy, but would load an old RedHat 7.3 commercial ISO was a 766 Celeron. Ideal systems for this distribution I think. But when working with these older systems, suspect picky CD/ROM's.

bucolicbuffalo wrote:I thought I had a bad burn from a dependable Plextor and used a Sony to burn a 2nd copy. I think the problem will end up being a goofy CD/ROM.

This is a shot in the dark, but are you perhaps using a CD-RW rather than a CD-R when you burn the CD? For some strange reason, the CD on my laptop will boot off of a CD-R just fine (and read every track) but will not boot and sometimes won't read random tracks when the media is CD-RW.

Wonko

dieselbenz wrote:

bucolicbuffalo wrote:I thought I had a bad burn from a dependable Plextor and used a Sony to burn a 2nd copy. I think the problem will end up being a goofy CD/ROM.

This is a shot in the dark, but are you perhaps using a CD-RW rather than a CD-R when you burn the CD? For some strange reason, the CD on my laptop will boot off of a CD-R just fine (and read every track) but will not boot and sometimes won't read random tracks when the media is CD-RW.

Wonko

These are all CD-R The music versions. I expected a few problems. Work is in a warehouse and the dust bunnies inside these machines were huge.