yes! dsl installed & I am happy!Forum: User Feedback Topic: yes! dsl installed & I am happy! started by: news.observer Posted by news.observer on Aug. 13 2005,08:57
I'm so happy! After a slight learning curve, I made boot floppies & dsl 1.4 install cd. The target pc (free!) was rescued from garbage, and bogged down with Win98 + junk. It is a Pentium 75 Mhz, 24 mb ram, with two 800 mb hard disk drives. I used a lowram boot to get started. Rest of install went pretty much as instructions said. DSL is just the trick for this legacy pc ... Win98 was way too slow and bogged down to use. With DSL, this old pc is now usable again. Especially for this unix/c & perl programmer :-) NICE WORK!!! Posted by adssse on Aug. 14 2005,04:26
Congrats! Are you able to run in X smoothly with 24mb? What amount of swap are you using?
Posted by news.observer on Aug. 14 2005,06:37
Yes, smooth enough. I used a lowram install so fluxbox is running in a minimal mode too. I used 128 meg of swap as recommended. I picked up a 90mhz pc with 32 meg of ram and a 1.9 gig hd, this afternoon for $20. It had Win98 earlier. Now it is a DSL box ... heh. Same as the other one, I used 128 meg swap for this one also. Full livecd install. I am writing this from my "new" box, running DSL. Posted by petit982 on Aug. 14 2005,11:02
Also I have installed DSL on my trash-old-notebook (P3-500mhz-64MB.RAM-6GB.HD).X runs very good!! :-) I'm not a expert linux user and I hope to learn something more using this small-but-powerful distribution. Bye everybody!! PS Many compliments to the DSL-development-team for the great job!!! -- Petit982 [from Italy] Posted by DSL on Aug. 20 2005,06:33
I love using DSL on what would otherwise be trash! I got an old P-I 133, with 32MB of ram. I wouldn't call it peppy, but it is usable. I like Links-Hacked for that box, it is a better browser than Dillo, but not nearly as heavy as Opera, or Firefox.
Posted by farmall on Aug. 21 2005,01:28
I run DSL from a CF card using an adapter in a Toshiba 3010CT P266/96MB lappy with a Netgear MA401 wireless card.Surfs well enough, and VNC lets me manage my faster machines while enjoying a silent laptop. Much more stable than the Win98 it replaced, but running from CF is key for me. DSL is why I'll be buying another CF-IDE adapter (from the DSL store this time!) and converting a spare Vaio. Posted by cantormath on Aug. 29 2005,08:48
I recently got a freebie pent 150 mhz running with 64 mb ram, on a 2 gig HD........AMAZINGLY FAST with DSL on the HD...cantormath Posted by AwPhuch on Aug. 30 2005,17:33
I just might look into getting the dsl on CF disk with the 3.5" adapter!< http://damnsmalllinux.org/store/embedded_storage > Might be worth while to look into it...probably would freeking scream on my compac 600Mhz with 256Meg RAM! Would something like this: < http://www.gs-magic.com/english/product/product_01_22CFPLUS.htm > be any better since it is a true "harddrive" and allow for swap space?? Found one for $75!! < http://www.expansys-usa.com/product.asp?code=111582 > 2.2Gig and re-writeable for only 20 more...or would a system not be able to detect that? Brian AwPhuch Posted by stumpadoodle on Sep. 03 2005,18:21
haha wow I got two computers exactly like that from a freind up the street who thought they were broken...Free computers rock, even if theyre big and nearly useless. I put DSL on three computers in the same room now and I feel like a mad scientist sitting there with three screens in front of me... |