I picked up an old laptop that's rather weak (I think 233 MHz, 32 MB RAM). I'm looking for a small distro that will be just enough to run a web browser, and hopefully quickly. I suspect DSL is m...
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Could I run DamnSmall Linux on A
80286 12Mhz~Turbo 8Mhz~Normal
1MB RAM
50MB HDD
Serial Ports
and a PVGA Graphics Card
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Can anybody tell me how to remove programs on DSL? I want to get rid of almost everything that comes with DSL. I dont use most of the stuff, its just taking up precious space. I have messed around...
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Hi,
I have an old laptop with ~180MB of ram. When I start using DSL and install packages on it I can save these with "MyDSL > Backup/Restore" and save this backup.tar.gz on my usb...
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This question asks how one is supposed to preserve configurations across boots on the same computer in DSL. That is I'm looking for a something like Slax's "saveconfig" commant that wri...
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I am trying to make a boot floopy I went to the dsl site for the boot image file there were 2or3 choices and something to click on for downloading the one you want ..
I must be thick cause I hav...
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I'm trying to mount a ntfs partition that is on an ATA hd in a Dell Optiplex Gx620. I'm using the DSL live cd.
When I try to mount -t ntfs -o,ro /dev/hda1 /mnt/mntDir I get ...
wrong fs typ...
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My computer is an IBM IntelliStation M Pro (An older version) and I'm trying to install DSL on it, but I can't set it to boot from CD. I tried the Smart Boot Manager program, but when it starts up...
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Because I heard that DSL was very likely to run on ancient computers, I tried running the liveCD on my roughly twelve-year-old 486, really just to see if I could. Unfortunately, the system configu...
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Hi there, like you see I have some problems with my HD, now I have decided to install DSL in the HD, and it have worked just fine (suse freeze in installation), anyway...
Im not familiar with ...
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I want to be able to develop Xlib applications on DSL, so I installed the XFree86-devel package. When I try to compile sample source generated with Anjuta with the following command:
gcc xsti...
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I'm just curious: The Kororaa liveCD showing off XGL is impressive, but it misses two vital things: You can't carry it with you in your wallet, and a "toram" option isn't really feasible...
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Hi,
I want to try DSL on my Linux box but need a little advice first. I have a 2.5 GB master HDD (hda1) with Winbloze2000pro on it, the slave HDD is 10 GB (hdb1) with Ubuntu Breezy on it with ...
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Hello all I installed DSl on my Compaq Deskpro 2000 16MB ram. But when I go above 4bit color I get an inverted screen(Blue pointer and background) Im planning on using this computer as a developin...
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I want to install DSL on a spare machine however I have no CD Burner available. Can I load the 50MB ISO image I have on a USB thumb drive and boot from this? I don't know if I need a specific ISO ...
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Tried to run it; didn't activate keyboard and mouse = ditched.
I am after a fast ditro with gtk
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It has been a while since I have used linux, but just worked on the development of some pretty neat financial software and using DSL to run it easily in VmWare.
Anyways, I have 3 scripts that ...
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I have a question.
I would like to use Damn small linux from the Cd but there isn't some plug-in of firefox (for problem on the license).
There is a method to using live cd to connect it in one pa...
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I was trying to install gaim on a HD install of dsl and it said it needed a C compiler. What should i get?
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Im using dsl because my comuter crashed time a go... now thtat I have time I have downloaded it and I have run "badblocks" it say that have detedtec bad blocks
Code:
> badblo...
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hi all, what are the steps required to install DSL on a hard drive attached via usb (not a usb pen drive!)?
it is a win95 laptop hard drive that won't load due to win95 errors. i want to refo...
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Well, I checked for similar threads and nothing was similar enough. I have a couple of issues with the configuration of DSL, the monitor and the modem. I can live with the monitor problem, I jus...
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Hi
I've just installed DSL on an old laptop, and I'm using it to learn perl on, but I've come up against a real stumbling block.
I'm using the included monkey webserver, and everything wor...
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Hi,
I am trying to install DSL on a Sony vaio P3 550MHz with 64M of memory.
I am booting from a PCMCIA cd rom drive. It starts OK but when I try to boot I get an error message.
"C...
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Hello Everyone,
I am a newbie and I would like to try DSL on my laptop. The DSL download sites however show so many versions and I am in a quandary as to what to choose. Please let me know wha...
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