DSL Tips and Tricks :: Dual Processors

Quote (NewDude @ Feb. 15 2006,19:54)

My wife is starting to get mad at me because I spend 3 to 5 hours a night in my garage messing with the P166 running DSL. But she understands... I think...

Wait 'till you start buying Linux books to further your understanding...further.

That is funny you say that, I already have. I have spent the last 10 days reading. The first night I got one of the books I read 150 pages in one of them. She was amazed, because she is usually the is the one reading stories. I don't like reading stories however, I would rather watch the movie..

But the last 10 days have been great. I have learned so much about Linux, but still have a lot to learn. What else am I suppose to do? I have almost completely left windoze. The only one windows machine I have left inthe house is Windows XP for the kids and my wifes quicken and I have a server in my garage running my website and email server run on Windoze 2k Pro. Eventually I will move my website, forum, and email server off Win2k and Linux will host it. But I still have a lot to learn before I am to that point.

BTW, do you know of a free webmail client I can run when I go to Linux to run my email server? Also, does DSL run email server stuff???

www.Horde.org
it is the one that my site used

Quote (300c_pilot @ Feb. 17 2006,20:14)

I have a simular pc pII-450 w/ 1gig mem and no harddrive, it is a rockect.:)

How can I expand the capacity of my / directory so that
I can load some programs to that as a base directory? I want
to set up a version with TCL/Expect on CD so that i can take advantage of the Expect scripting. The computer that I am trying to get this to work on is a 1.5Ghz with 1 gig ram and no harddrive. Adding a hardrive is not an option, it needs to run strictly from CD.

You will need to rebuild the initial ramdisk image for DSL, stored on the CD as

minirt24.gz

Making this a larger filesystem will expand your "/" directory's capacity.

An alternative is to somehow create another, larger ramdisk, format it EXT2, copy the initial "/" files, directories and symlinks over and then chroot over to that ramdisk.

But if the files don't need to be inside "/" and instead only need to be inside a SUBDIRECTORY underneath the "/" tree, I would simply do this:

Boot DSL with this command:

dsl write

When booted, open up a terminal window and type:

sudo su
mkdir /ramdisk/mynewdir
cd /
ln -s /ramdisk/mynewdir

Due to the symbolic link, the directory named /ramdisk/mynewdir will also appear in the top level subdirectory as /mynewdir and you can then store a huge amount of data in your newly created directory because you have a large ramdisk due to the 1GB of RAM in your PC.

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