How Do You Use DSL (updated)

Forum: User Feedback
Topic: How Do You Use DSL (updated)
started by: green

Posted by green on Jan. 02 2006,21:49

This new poll is slightly updated. However, DSL has many, many options and we are limited to 10 poll answers. Please comment on anything you are using that are not included, example: mkmydsl; webdata for restore/backup; remaster; etc.

Posted by mikshaw on Jan. 02 2006,22:14

Frugal on hard disk, with multiple grub entries. One starts DSL with no modifications, no restore or mydsl apps, mainly for testing. One uses persistent home and opt (my main setup). One for runlevel 2. A few more for various combinations of mydsl apps. None of them use backup/restore...just a personal preference to use mydsl instead.

Posted by doobit on Jan. 03 2006,00:47

I use frugal on hard drive and Cd with backup/restore on pendrive, and Frugal on pendrive. I use DSL where ever I can.

Posted by MethodOne on Jan. 03 2006,18:25

I use CD with backup/restore on flash drive at school, CD only on my desktop, VMware Player on my main laptop (Compal DL70), and a traditional hard drive install on my Compaq laptop.

Posted by John on Jan. 03 2006,23:40

Most of the time these days I am suing DSL via pen on my Nano.

Posted by RoGuE_StreaK on Jan. 04 2006,23:32

omg, John is sueing DSL!

Posted by AwPhuch on Jan. 06 2006,17:28

Waiddaminute...can you sue yourself??

If you won..would you just change the cash over from your left pocket to right pocket...well after you give 90% to your lawyers you would!

Brian
AwPhuch

Posted by doobit on Jan. 06 2006,18:41

You should sue you for all that you are worth!

Posted by JeffElkins on Jan. 06 2006,21:56

I'm using a remastered embedded 2.1 on 512mb flash pendrive/CF card as well as from the HD. Only embedded since my two shuttles (one XP, one Linux) won't boot dsl from either usb-zip or usb-hdd (but that's another topic:))

Posted by ubl on Jan. 21 2006,03:02

I use frugal on my older computers, and live cd "dsl toram" for the newer ones. I'm not a business, I just have a lot of old computers around (that I use.)
I'm using DSL2.1b at the moment but there is something funky going on with the cdrom( I have to go into superuser mode to unmount audio cd's.) I wonder if it might be possible to have two versions of DSL, for older and newer computers.

Posted by davidA on Jan. 22 2006,06:25

Quote (ubl @ Jan. 20 2006,14:02)

I am a new dsl user and have just completed a hard drive install (using the latest version of dsl) on to my old Panasonic CF-25 P166 laptop, with 2.7 Gb drive and 96 Mb of RAM. Would I get better performance from an older version. I am quite pleased with the speed as is, considering the antiquity of the hardware :laugh:

Posted by alochin on Jan. 23 2006,02:27

I used traditionnal HDD install since version 0.5, but I have being experiencing broken installations with the MyDSL extensions, so I finally tried the frugal, and loved it. I think I will go that way from now on.

Posted by delaguer on Feb. 03 2006,01:43

I also use traditional HD install DSL 1.5, currently dual-booting with Ubuntu Hoary. I have to say that I'm quite surprise with DSL... it is very easy to install, to run, and also to add some more stuffs from mydsl. I installed Opera and Xine and it's no problem, with Ubuntu fresh install, I couldnt even get the sound working and have to install lots of small files such as codecs, etc etc afterward...

I will try to download OpenOffice and one torrent client later.... if these two work like charm.... then I can use DSL as my primary OS... :laugh:

Thank you DSL.

Posted by Red04Bull on Feb. 03 2006,02:56

dsl frugal install with persistent home/opt on Hard Disk Drive and backup/restore

also use LIVE CD in other comps

Posted by gaspode on Feb. 04 2006,01:44

Ebayed a cheap almost bare compaq armada 7770 for Ł25 on ebay, added a 4Gb HDD, a floppy and a lot of cursing after installing win98se.
Decided I needed speed and stability so after trying feather 9 wouldn't run ) and puppy ( coudn't get it to install to hd ) I tried DSL, ran 1st time.... repartitioned ( thank you pqmagict.exe ) added a small ( 1.8Gb ext2 ) linux partition and swap ( 256Mb ) installed it to HD ( 2nd time, my fault for not paying attention ) and it runs like a dream, all I need to do now is get it to see my ACX100 wifi card and set up the sound and i'll be as happy as a pig in mud. In short, DSL saved me from microsoft slavery.... Thanks guys

Posted by fuzzybud on Feb. 13 2006,23:16

The other day I used the DSM for the first time. It came with a frugal install of 2.0 on the 512 MB solid state hard drive. I want to use Ted so I reinstalled version 2.2b and think it is frugal, not sure. I installed from a pendrive and selected frugal when I installed to DSM but it went so quickly and didn't ask many questions so I am not sure what it is at the moment. 2.2b is installed on the 512 MB hard drive and I am happy with it.

Posted by Trog Dog on Feb. 18 2006,10:06

I run DSL as a HD install for my BOINC boxes, all they do is crunch for BOINC 24/7 so I don't need a huge distro with all the bells and whistles, plus some of the boxes are getting long in the tooth so I need something that's small and compatible with old hardware - DSL is a good distro for this. Also I'm a complete linux newb, and while it hasn't been as easy to use as windows so far my boxes are still running.

Posted by humpty on Mar. 05 2006,18:29

I installed on a pendrive, swapped the partitions so that a windows system can see the data partition.
I then make a set of floppy boot disks and edit the isolinux.cfg for boot options. I leave these by the side of any office PC that I use. The floppies can boot and automatically find the knoppix image off the pendrive. This is the most reliable way I've found so far.
At home, I just boot off freedos and use loadlin to load the image off HD.

Posted by Sharkscott on Mar. 03 2007,23:03

I used DSL 2.0 to restore a hard drive on an old IBM laptop. It had the "Windows 98' Enabled!" sticker still on it. It had 128megs of ram and P2 400mhz chip.

it had a 10g HD that wouldn't format with the Windows disk but would after I formatted it with DSL.

Posted by Plak on Mar. 05 2007,08:25

PXE booted remastered images of DSL for webkiosks

Posted by Jason W on Mar. 14 2007,15:15

Live CD for me 98% of the time, with toram when possible. Do not do a traditional hard drive install much anymore, though it makes for such a responsive system.

Posted by Felson on Mar. 14 2007,17:10

Frugal on HD. I also use it on a USB key as well.

Posted by JohnJS on Mar. 14 2007,17:51

Frugal (LILO) on main 'puter
LiveCD on secondary to experiment.