westburian
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Joined: Oct. 2006 |
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Posted: Oct. 12 2006,20:26 |
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Thought I'd give DSL a try based on a recomendation, I perused the website, notice that it is supposed to run on a windoze partition...
Background: Machine is a Pentium 166 w/ 32 megs RAM, my win98 partition has around 400 mb space, I thought this would be a good candidate.
I downloaded the embedded.zip file, something like DSL-3.0.1-embedded.zip or something like that... 50 megabytes
using winzip, I unzipped it to C:\DSL
here is the dos DIR listing after unzipping:
Volume in drive C is FREEGATE Volume Serial Number is 3521-00DB Directory of C:\DSL
. <DIR> 10-12-06 11:55a .. <DIR> 10-12-06 11:55a GERMAN KBD 256 05-27-06 5:17p LINUX24 994,807 05-27-06 5:17p LOGO 16 36,649 05-27-06 5:17p MINIRT24 GZ 801,359 05-27-06 5:17p README TXT 1,965 05-27-06 5:17p SYSLINUX CFG 2,075 05-27-06 5:17p KNOPPIX <DIR> 10-12-06 11:55a QEMU <DIR> 10-12-06 11:56a BOOT MSG 110 05-27-06 5:17p DSL-LI~1 SH 226 05-27-06 5:17p DSL-WI~1 BAT 364 05-27-06 5:17p F2 1,592 05-27-06 5:17p F3 1,595 05-27-06 5:17p QEMU-L~1 TXT 468 05-27-06 5:17p 12 file(s) 1,841,466 bytes 4 dir(s) 274,751,488 bytes free
So after reading the readme.txt and everything else, I ran:
dsl-windows.bat from within windoze98 one DOS box opened.... @echo off START qemu
then another DOS box opened on top of it, something flashes by WAY to fast to read, then 'press any key to exit'
and that's it.
I currently use slackware 7, a full install with KDE, as well as dragonlinux lite (cli prompt only), while not a linux guru, I have a pretty basic grasp of the file system, and use the lynx broswer, PINE email, JOE and PICO text editors, etc etc, and in KDE I installed the opera browser and do email just fine with KMAIL
I also use the BasicLinux BL3 distro, which also runs on the dos/win98 partition, and zipslack, and have used pygmy linux and maybe a few other small distros......
soooooo.....where do I got from here ?
no, I don't have a cd rw drive don't have a USB pen drive not ordering a CD at this point.....
I was hoping this would at least work 'out of the box' enough for me to get a CLI prompt.....
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