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I'm trying to burn an iso file (dsl-411...) unto a blank cd-rw with this app but nothing happens. Before, a few hours ago, I tried to blank another cd-rw but nothing happenned, neither.

My actual (running it right now) OS is DSL 2.4.31 but can't find the version of the said app.

I don't have a hdd but put an external cfcard attachankatever.

Think I need help before turning the machine off & loosing the file.

Thanks for any help on this!

Thanks for replying, CNK!

I'm sorry it took me so long to read your post & I'm not sure I'm going to have time to look at the old forum today but I will.

In relation to the disk thing I've bitter memories. In my first pc I remember I distroyed a valuable disk by taking it out of the drive before the led was off. So, I refrained myself of doing it again.

I'm going to try to re-make the freedos disk again, this time without mounting it first & from the console. But, I'm curious about something: why it shouldn't be mounted? I'm sorry, there're 2 questions: should I first format the diskette FAT16? Is it BIOS dependent?

Thanks for any help you or somebody else can give around these things!

Hello,

I am a programmer during the day and digital electronics/retro-computing hobbyist at night.
My first contact with DSL happened some 10 years ago. I did not think of it much then.
It impressed me that it could be booted up from 2 3.5" disks (even from one when squeezed), which I used to resurrect an old 386-SX PC. Flash memory sticks weren't that popular and reliable back then.
Long years passed, 2 children were born and I am back to my tinkering with anything CPU, 8-bit retro or just old.
One of my 1st projects after resurrecting my sentiments toward 8-bit microprocessors was a LED Matrix Scrolling Board with 8052 microcontroller:

   http://6502cpu.blogspot.com/2012/01/8051-based-led-matrix-scrolling-message.html

Not yet a DSL, but getting there, so bear with me.
When I tried to invent some practical use for my contraption, I decided it would be a News Headlines Prompter in my geek cave.
But my contraption did not have a network interface (just RS232) nor advanced scripting capabilities. I was thinking Arduino (but learning curve too wide - at the time I did not play with Arduino yet) or another contraption. Then I decided I would cheat and came up with this:

   http://6502cpu.blogspot.com/2012/03/damn-small-linux-led-matrix-scrolling.html

Now this thing is also my backup and file server as well. I love it. Very reliable and almost maintenance free (sometimes I need to fix stuff I myself break).
Maybe this is not much by the  Linux world standards, nevertheless I am impressed and proud of these stats:

dsl@box:/opt$ uptime
 00:26:33 up 207 days,  3:02, load average: 0.04, 0.01, 0.00

I hope I will reach a year without stopping this thing. I must login to it from time to time just to remind myself how to use it :-), since it is just a configure, run and forget type of system. My DSL runs without any keyboard or display, no X-windows/GUI. Just bare minimum. I login to it via network or RS232 port.
It boots from a USB flash drive. Has another USB flash drive as a temporary storage and two 2TB hard drives connected: one on the SATA running with the computer (file server, temporary backup) and one via USB turned on only for a permanent backup that runs every 3 months.
---
Marek

Please... use this forum in benefit for DAMN SMALL LINUX, the best mini distribution... Not for useless personal messages.

OK - I found that cs4232 works.
modprobe cs4232 io=0x530 irq=5 dma=1 dma2=0 mpuio=0x330 mpuirq=5

One question, mate. Did you ever get this sorted?

I'm also the (un)lucky owner of a Thinkpad 560 and I cant get X to work. I reckon its the DSTN screen that's making a fuss, but all i get is distorted colors. Mostly variations of blue or gray-ish green.  Running RC2 Frugal install atm. Install done from a maxed Tecra 550CDT.

I'm trying DSL on my old TP600 laptop via CD. It all works except the sound. Apparently for the sound to work I need to load snd-cs4236 kernel module using modprobe. I've found this out and many other things from googling this problem.
But when I try modprobe snd-cs4236 I get an error that no such file exists.
Where do I get this?

Thanks

Source Code is the common way to distribute programs for Linux so that they can be used with a range of different distributions. If a project on Sourceforge offers a Linux version, it probably has the source package available, but many linux programs from elsewhere on the net will have them too. They usually have the "tar.gz" extension (or tar.xz, tar.bz2). Note though that the ".tar.gz" packages in the MyDSL repository are not Source Code packages.

For your second problem, if you downloaded a package for the program you're using, it might be looking for GIMP-print when it isn't installed on your computer. If you compiled it, you should check for a "./configure" option to disable GIMP-print. If the program can't run without GIMP-print for some reason, you might need to install it, though I'm not sure if it is compatible with DSL.

Thanks,

that explains a lot.
"Sourcecode package" does that mean, from "Sourceforge", or is that from Debian in our (DSL) case?
What I allso wanted to know is: When I want to start an installed package and the output is: errot while loading shared libraries (eg) 'gimpprint.so.1' no such file or directory, and I can't find gimpprint.so.1, why should this than work with gimpprint.dev?

Thanks again