[TriLUG] DSL (Damn Small Linux)

[Kevin Sonney]

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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