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Posted: Sep. 23 2006,15:55 QUOTE
I ahve installed DSL on a 700mb CD/R using Alcohol 120and i appear to have been successfull :) However there are still some issues that i need helpwith/resolving.

1) I thought that the whole point of DSL was that it was 50mb yet it appears to take up 83.4 MB (87,527,424 bytes) why is this? I used the dsl-n.a5.iso for the installation.

2)I have a 1gb USB stick that i would like to install DSL on. Wen i tryed this frem inside DSL however it said that it would need to format the USB Stick and Devide it into Partisions dose that mean i wil lose all data that is currently being stored on it? Alos wat is the difference between USB-Zip install and USB-HDD install?

3)I have aol broadband which means that to connect to the internet i need to open the aol Browser which is not included in DSL so how can i access the internet from DSL?

4) MyDSL Extensions what are they? How do i use them? Were can i get them? Can i put them on my DSL CD even though its not a RW?

I think that pretty much sums it up. Oh technycal info to save you guys the hassle of asking.
Make: Pakard Bell
Processor: 2.8 Ghz
RAM: 1.0 Ghz
Hard drive: 80Gb(Origional)
               250Gb(Internal)
OS: Windows XP Home Edition SP2
USB Stick: Intergral 1Gb USB 2.0 Flash Drive

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Posted: Sep. 23 2006,16:15 QUOTE
Quote (sin 3 Killer @ Sep. 23 2006,13:55)
1) I thought that the whole point of DSL was that it was 50mb yet it appears to take up 83.4 MB (87,527,424 bytes) why is this? I used the dsl-n.a5.iso for the installation.

That's not THE DSL. That's DSL-n you are using. The bigger version of DSL.
http://damnsmalllinux.org/dsl-n/

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Posted: Sep. 23 2006,16:18 QUOTE
Oh is it any better or worse than the normal DSL?

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Posted: Sep. 23 2006,16:40 QUOTE
I believe the primary motivation for DSL-N was that DSL developers could upgrade the Linux kernel to a more recent version which provided support for newer hardware such as SATA drives.  However, on the down side some support for the older hardware is lost and the newer kernel was too large to be limitted to 50mb.  So DSL-n has a more recent kernel, updated hardware support and uses application like CUPS which provide a richer feature set.

Which is better depends on what you are wanting to do.  For older hardware with limitted resourses then I would suggest the original DSL but for newer hardware where resource issue are not an issue you could try DSL-n.
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Posted: Sep. 23 2006,16:46 QUOTE
Ok thx :)
anybody got any answers for any of the other poits?

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