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Topic: Come on, DSL ist to beat Win98!!!!!?, Installing DSL on a 16MB Laptap via CD..

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Chuck
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Posted: Aug. 20 2005,06:02

NeroZero, I think you should stick to Win 98.

When you run from the CD DSL will create a ramdisk, which isn't needed when you do a HD install.

NeroZero

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Posted: Aug. 20 2005,11:00

HOW DO I tell DSL to save its config at the text prompt? How do
I tell it that there is an .swp already to be bound in at my
DOS Partition?

HOW IS the myconfig read from the HDD partition of my choice,
when at the beginning of DSL there is nothing yet mounted?!

mstrhelix

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Posted: Aug. 20 2005,16:09

You should probably stick to winblows because it is idiot proof. And you obviously don't understand how dsl works

NeroZero

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Posted: Aug. 20 2005,18:11

DSL minimal got me a cursor on the X and then stopped running

lowram got me more of a desktop screen then aged me out and I
had to abort since it took way too long

I installed DSL on my hard drive and then I got this CLOOP: Read Error
which aborted the entire project right there

Not even a TESTCD
is inside DSL?! Possible trouble, that my friend burnt the .ISO image
32x fold which is too fast for my drive? But it reads fine the booting
and all in the first place

:: BTW here are really a lot of DSL/Linux Experts

Windows all but
epososes their lack of interest in the fellow's system..

farmall

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Posted: Aug. 21 2005,01:02

It never hurts to burn live CDs at the slowest available speed. I use CDRWin trial which burns at 1x.
There are plenty of small Linux distros, but on a machine like that with almost no ram I'd either stick to the command line or switch to FreeDOS.
http://www.freedos.org/

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