DSL Tips and Tricks :: Step-By-Step DSL Installation Instructions:

I've posted detailed DSL installation instructions, documenting what I did with two Mitsubishi Amity CN laptops which have no USB ports and cannot boot from CD-ROM. The instructions should, with minor tweaks, work just as well for any similar older hardware that can't boot from CD-ROM.

The Amity CN is a circa 1997 133MHz Pentium subnotebook, 48MB RAM, 1.2GB hard drive. Performance running DSL 3.0.1 is very good indeed. I did a frugal installation but used persistent /opt, /home, and mydsl to effectively create what Roberts calls a hybrid installation. I do use some applications not currently available as DSL extensions so the persistent /opt gives me a place to put them without eating up my RAM disk.

See: http://www.mizuhoradio.com/personal/caitlyn/lightweightlinux/amitycn.html

For the developers: I've also been saying nice things about DSL in the O'Reilly Linux Dev Center blog.

original here.