User Feedback :: DSL FAQ Boot camp - Bring a helmet.
actually, the idea of a DSL fan site really scares me .O_o
other than that , looks great.
-J.P.
EDITUS:
Q) My computer won't boot from the cdrom/usb!! Is there a boot floppy?
A) Yes, the boot floppy for the current series of DSL can be forund on any of the download mirrors in the "Current" directory. boot-X.X.X.img is for booting from a cd, and boot-usb.X.X.X.img is for booting from a usb pendrive device.
In linux, you can create a boot floppy by typing
Code Sample
dd if=boot-X.X.X.img of=/dev/fd0
As far as windows, may I suggest John Newbigin's RawWrite for Windows. It's a lot easier to use than the original command-line based rawrite2.exe.
Q) Will DSL ever get bigger than 50mb?
A) NO! Now stop asking. John has said repeatedly that the 50mb ceiling will NEVER be broken. Sheesh.
Q) I did an HD install, and it runs slow, I have enough room for a swap partition, how do I make one?
A) Simple. 1. Open an root Xterm and type "cfdisk /dev/hdX" where "X" is the letter of your hard disk. 2. Select the free space and create a new primary partition. I recommend at least 32 mb, but if you have the room, 64 mb is better. 3. Next, select the "type" button and change the type to "82", which is Linux Swap. 4. Write the partition table to the disk, remember the partition name (I.E. hda1), and quit cfdisk. 5. Now type "mkswap /dev/hdXx" where "X" is the letter of the drive, and "x" is the number of the partition you just created. 6. Reboot. 7. Ta-da, you have a swap partition! ___
Thanks to ke4nt1 for kicking me about forgetting the mkswap part...Note: addendum:
Having a "type 82" partition does not a useable swap partition make.... Running "mkswap /dev/hd??" will prepare the space for use ..
...and AwPhuch's post was detailing making a "swap FILE" , which is a different animal from a "swap PARTITION"
They accomplish the same thing , provide swap. The swapfile can be made on an already existing formatted partition..
73 ke4ntTomorrow I am going to start the task of creating the version of the FAQ that will maybe (hopefuly if we can trim somethings) to ship with DSL's next release...maybe we could make it a MyDSL file intill then. What I plan on doing is making it an html file so that everything is neatly organized. We'll have the How-to's, the FAQ's, the documentation, ect. I'll try to keep the whole thing under 1mb but who knows! Feel free to share your ideas and comments.
~MeO_o Umm, it's really not anywhere near done yet.
Besides, this FAQ wasn't really intended to be for the CD.
Hold off on putting anything together for a bit, untill we get some more stuff added in.
ke4nt1: Didn't know there was such a thing as a swapfile. thats cool. And I just forgot the mkswap part. :P I'll edit it in real fast.
-J.P.If ke4nt doesn't mind, the mydsl idea might be good. It would allow everyone to view the documentation for comments and would also allow people to 'take it with them'. It could be a MyDSL living document (updated frequently).