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Hi jbander, can you explain, do you have a computer running DSL that doesn't have internet access?  Or, are you having a hard time getting any computer, regardless of OS to connect?  If it is a general Linux question than probably going to Linuxquestions.org will get you a faster response.

You should be able to now by going to your profile and licking on "Look and Layout Preferences."  In there you'll see a Time Offset feature.

Excellent djohnston, if this comes up again I'll be sure to point the person to this thread. 

Now that the mirror list is updated on the website all one needs to do in the 4.4.10 is to open the control panel, click on select mirror, click on the "Select" button, and choose a new URL.  After that the MyDSL browser should work as intended.

Thanks James.  There are these spam bots hitting this place so I had to disable URL posts.  I'll look for a more elegant solution.

You basically outlined the process in this post.  I've done this on laptops too, its a little more challenging to disassemble but the process is the same.   I still have an old VAIO notebook I did this to, it had no floppy drive, no optical, had USB, but it wasn't bootable.  I took the drive out, hooked it up to a thin client and did a simple frugal install.  Then just replug in and reassemble.

I think I answered most of this in the other thread:
http://damnsmalllinux.org/forums/index.php?topic=11.msg65#msg65

djohnston, I have no experience with virtualbox, but judging from this url (http://virtualboxes.org/images/damn-small/) it looks like the KNOPPIX file needs to be uncompressed.

Hi Mir, the old forum is archived, as is the wiki.  They are both static html.  There is just too much information on those pages to lose.  The repository problem was two folds, the default URL for ibiblio was changed and the MyDSL system was not able to update the URL list because it grabbed it from the download page on this website -- those links needed to be revised too.  In this RC I fixed the default link so that it works out of the box.  Hopefully this saves you some work in the IRC channel. 

Re:GCC Probably the best thing for most to do is grab gcc from the repository.  That said, I just went through the apt process and  grabbed gcc2.95.  Make & gcc are separate installations.  One issue was that I had to manually install fileutils by using --force-all in dpkg.  If you start getting into dev packages you are going to have a lot of conflicts.  It would be better to have a woody dev environment and transfer the compiled programs over.

Yeah, hardware detection is something I'm going to be concentrating on soon, wireless will be a big component of that.

Thanks for the feedback on rc1 guys, I really appreciate it.  I have no plans to work on  DSL for ARM at this time.

I have no plans to do anything ARM at this time.  I do believe TinyCore is tinkering with ARM right now.

Interesting Dave, what was the last version of DSL that worked for you?  Also, did you try to run xsetup.sh and set the mouse to USB?  The hardware detection should be exactly the same as DSL4.4.

Without a doubt there are hardware limitations with this old kernel.  I'll be be building a version of DSL with a more recent kernel in the near future.