Success!Forum: User Feedback Topic: Success! started by: Alisdair Kelly Posted by Alisdair Kelly on June 06 2004,12:46
Being up early in the morning, and having investigated the hdd installation script, I took the plunge and installed DSL0.71 on a PII450,128mbRAM,40gb Hdd box.The install went flawlessly and quickly. Grabbed Firefox, Synaptic, and enabled APT also flawlessly done. I am impressed and hugely pleased. It would be nice if this remaster were based on Knoppix 3.4, but what the heck. This just gives me a reason to roll me own,yes? Posted by ke4nt1 on June 06 2004,15:37
Congrats ! ... Also tryout some of the .dsl extensions, like Abiword, Rox FIler, and Mplayer ... Really nice additions to compliment DSL... 73 ke4nt Posted by Alisdair Kelly on June 06 2004,19:05
Those are on my list. I set up SAMBA using the DSL extension prior to making the installation move. And, man o man, what a great idea the extensions are!After configuring printing (network printer on a W2K box) and adding a couple of other programs, I'll be playing with this like a madman. Ideally, this will lead me to a dual boot on an XP laptop next. Posted by Ken Simons on June 08 2004,23:53
Success indeed. 0.70 didn't work, for some bizarre reason, on my dual-processor P-II 266 machine. But 0.71 goes like a dream.Am I deluding myself in thinking that it's better on a low-end machine, to unpack the .dsl exensions and just install them as normal tarballs? Somehow I had the impression that the mydsl script unpacked them on the fly, meaning extra memory load. Tell me that I'm wrong. I love this distro -- I just need to get sane and xsane running and I'll be laughing ... Unlike my experience with the much fatter Peanut Linux (now distributed without any WP program, it seems), where I was weeping and tooth-gnashing... Posted by ke4nt1 on June 09 2004,00:04
You are correct...0.7.0 had some dual cpu issues, which have been fixed in 0.7.1.. It would run with the "nosmp" command issued at boot time.. All better now.. And yes, when on a low-ram machine, renaming the .dsl's to .tar.gz's ( which they ARE anyway ), and writing to only the /damnsmall and /opt directories keeps ram usage down.. From what I've been told, making the whole OS writable thru the use of the .dsl's eats up ram (i-nodes) . That's why the themes and other files are left as .tar.gz files, to be installed by placing them in the / directory. They will automatically write to the proper places when you startup DSL. 73 ke4nt |