Hello,
I am new on linux and so i am new at this forum too, please don´t cry at me if i ask so "simple" questions.
So my problem...
If got a old Notebook (P90, 24 MB Ram) but this one got no cd-drive, so i searched after a floppy-based linux distribution which i found at : tiny.seul.org/de/
i installed it without problems (14 disks are too many *g*) but then i wondered...
It was a bash shell ok, thats sounds good. But commands like ping,traceroute and so on are dont work (bash: ping: command not found).
So i need help, can i patch that in a way? If yes how, please descripe it very detailed
Thanks infront,

Syntron

You seem to be in luck (kind of). Your distro doesn't use binary packages, everything is compiled. So, go to www.freshmeat.net or www.sourceforge.net and search for the packages - you want the ones ending in .tar.gz, .tgz or .bz2. Uncompress them and install them according to the instructions included in the compressed file.

And welcome to LQ

I thank you very much for this quick good answer
Ok, i will try that. What packages will i need for go in the internet over router(hradware)?

Thanks you much,

Syntron

Before you go installing things you may not need to install, verify what you have. If bash doesn't know where something is, you get the 'command not found' message (the command isn't in your path). To verify that you don't have ping, open a terminal and enter the command 'which ping' without quotes. If you get an answer like '/bin/ping', then you have it; bash just can't find it because it's not in your path.
Two ways to fix it.
From the command line, as root user, give the command 'PATH=/bin', then 'export $PATH'.
OR
To use ping, or any other command not in you path, give the full path to the command when you use it, like this: /bin/ping. By giving the full path, you tell bash where to find it. Otherwise, bash looks through the directories in you path, and if it doesn't find the command, you get 'command not found'.

This will make the PATH /bin only. If lets say /sbin wasn't in your PATH do
this will add /sbin to the end of the current PATH.

I stand corrected. And thanx darthtux for the correct info.

No prob. You posted excellent information. You don't know how many times I have to edit my own posts

Thank you much too,

If you with the command "which" after ping and traceroute and he didn´t found them, so i have to install them
I am looking forward to setting up linux "completely".

Bye