User Feedback :: How Do You Use DSL (updated)

The other day I used the DSM for the first time. It came with a frugal install of 2.0 on the 512 MB solid state hard drive. I want to use Ted so I reinstalled version 2.2b and think it is frugal, not sure. I installed from a pendrive and selected frugal when I installed to DSM but it went so quickly and didn't ask many questions so I am not sure what it is at the moment. 2.2b is installed on the 512 MB hard drive and I am happy with it.

I run DSL as a HD install for my BOINC boxes, all they do is crunch for BOINC 24/7 so I don't need a huge distro with all the bells and whistles, plus some of the boxes are getting long in the tooth so I need something that's small and compatible with old hardware - DSL is a good distro for this. Also I'm a complete linux newb, and while it hasn't been as easy to use as windows so far my boxes are still running.

I installed on a pendrive, swapped the partitions so that a windows system can see the data partition.
I then make a set of floppy boot disks and edit the isolinux.cfg for boot options. I leave these by the side of any office PC that I use. The floppies can boot and automatically find the knoppix image off the pendrive. This is the most reliable way I've found so far.
At home, I just boot off freedos and use loadlin to load the image off HD.

I used DSL 2.0 to restore a hard drive on an old IBM laptop. It had the "Windows 98' Enabled!" sticker still on it. It had 128megs of ram and P2 400mhz chip.

it had a 10g HD that wouldn't format with the Windows disk but would after I formatted it with DSL.

PXE booted remastered images of DSL for webkiosks

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