[TriLUG] DSL (Damn Small Linux)

[Kevin Sonney]

Jim -

Ah! Yes, older CDROM drives are picky about media. If this was burned
to a 700M disk or "too fast" (i.e. 4x drive and a 24x CDROM) then
there may be issues with booting. Old hardware (like us old geeks) can
be cranky and particular.

I suspect you'll need both for that particular machine. Bummer.

On 8/18/06, James McDermott <jim at purpleelephant.org> wrote:
> 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
>
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> 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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