[TriLUG] DSL (Damn Small Linux)

[James McDermott]

Hello Kevin,

I downloaded the DSL 3.0.1 6/20/2006 iso and burned the CD. 

The CD boots OK on my IBM T42 Notebook running WindowsXP Professional
(without the need for the boot floppy).

When I try the same CD on my computer running Edubuntu Version 6.06 LTS,
the computer ignores the CD. The BIOS boot order is set to CDROM first. 

I sense there are many different ways to boot and in some computers you
might need the boot floppy AND the CD and you might have to play around
with BIOS boot orders to get a particular machine up and running with
DSL. 

On the surface it looks like a real nice distribution. 

We are also exploring DSL on a jump drive for the newer computers that
can boot off the USB port.

Thanks for your help.

Jim  







On Fri, 2006-08-18 at 19:33 -0400, Kevin Sonney wrote:
> James -
> 
> Hey man, long time no see!
> 
> > It sounds like you might need the boot floppy AND it's companion CD to
> > boot a computer into DSL. 
> 
> OK, I just did some mucking about with DSL myself this week. I can
> confirm that the floppies *JUST* handle booting, and do not contain the OS.
> 
> If the system can boot from CD, the CD is bootable. if not, use the
> floppy to boot to a CD Prompt.
> 
> 
> If you happen to have VMWare Player, the dsl-3.0.1-vmx.zip file is a
> premade DSL VM. With it, you can create a bootable USB key (as well as
> other media, AFAIK) ready to run if your BIOS supports boot-from-USB.
> 
> I'm pretty impressed with DSL as a "pocket" Linux distro. It also has a
> "install-to-local-HD" once booted, which is very useful on older systems
> with small hard-drives.
> 
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