starting DSL on a 233mhz 32Mo RAM

Forum: User Feedback
Topic: starting DSL on a 233mhz 32Mo RAM
started by: jrev

Posted by jrev on Feb. 10 2007,13:39

Hi all,
I am new on DSL, I am french and I started the DSL 3.1 on my PC as mentioned in the title...
I booted with dsl lang=fr
then I chose screen mode number 6 (800x600x16)
I got to the desktop and first page of explanations. I closed it and clicked on DSL panel to choose my keyboard latin9fr then I typed xinit to restart xwindows
But I got the message :
setting the locale failed
please check that your localesetup
language =fr
LC_All=(unset) etc.
What can be done to fix this problem ?

Thanks for your advice

Posted by jrev on Feb. 10 2007,15:22

Next question will be :
How do I make new partitions on my HD before starting the frugal installation ?
And how do I start the frugal install ?

Thanks for your replies

Posted by ^thehatsrule^ on Feb. 10 2007,16:38

Afaik dsl only comes with the english language, but using different keyboard layouts will still work. (ie try booting without the lang=)

For quick reference, you may see the startup page that pops up in dillo (or see < http://damnsmalllinux.org/wiki/index.php/Local_Startup_Documentation > )

Posted by jrev on Feb. 12 2007,08:26

Hi,
I managed to create 2 new partitions on my hda for the frugal install of DSL according to the FrugalHowto.pdf :
the already existing linux-swap partition for my ubuntu to be used for DSL as well.

I booted with the DSL 3.1 CD and typed dsl 2 at boot.
Then came the command prompt :
root@tty1[/]#
I then typed : /usr/sbin/frugal_instal.sh and I got the answer :

bash: /usr/sbin/frugal_instal.sh: No such file or directory

What am I going to do now ?

Thanks for your reply

Posted by jrev on Feb. 12 2007,09:04

OK the frugalHowto.pdf is outdated !

I started again with the wiki frugal tip and chose "install" from the boot and Nr. 4 "frugal grub hard drive install"

after some time I rebooted the PC but nothing has been written into my already existing grub menu

I wanted to test the frugal install on my hda where I already got the ubuntu 6.06 Dapper and winxp installed

What shall I do now ? :cool:

Is there a guide for the latest versions of DSL to install in the most common and advised way ? :cool:

A new updated pdf ? :cool:

Posted by ^thehatsrule^ on Feb. 12 2007,14:12

frugal_instal.sh is now frugal_lilo.sh
and now there is also frugal_grub.sh

By default, I think the grub script installs itself to the mbr of the device that the dsl partition is on. If it's not the same device as your default boot device, it won't be used/seen. However, if the dsl media is already written to the other device, you can add an DSL boot entry to your existing bootloader.

Posted by jrev on Feb. 13 2007,16:28

How come there is no guide to install the last version of DSL in the basic way ?
The newcomers have to start without any help or guidance ?

Which version did you install on your PC ?

And how did you do it ?