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Posted: Jan. 24 2008,03:52 QUOTE

I normally use Debian Gnu/Linux, but have gotten fed up at times with how applications tend to pull in all sorts of extra libraries and end up taking up several megabytes.  I fully realize that my hardware can handle many more programs easily, but I have found that I, too, have developed a distaste for software bloat.  I certainly like the way the people at Damn Small Linux think, and would love to switch over to this operating system.  My hardware, however, has different ideas.

My computer is a Dell Vostro laptop, and I have to disable several types of hardware detection just to get DSL to boot successfully.  Even then, however, my computer usually freezes on shutdown.  I have also tried DSL-N, which cures most of these issues.  I have one problem, however, in both varients of DSL; my SATA hard drive fails to be detected.

I assume that these problems stem from the kernel that is used in DSL, and that I will need to set up a remastering environment to upgrade the kernel.  My issue is this: all the documentation that I have found talks about remastering DSL from within a running instance of DSL, but I need to do this from a second OS, the Debian installation that I mentioned.  How should I go about this?  I expect to have to drop in a new custom kernel; where should I place the kernel, modules, and initrd to be sure that they will work properly? By the way, I do know about the kernel patch for DSL.
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Posted: Jan. 24 2008,04:27 QUOTE

You should be able to load SATA in DSL 4+ using the sata cheatcode. If you read through the forums, you'll also see that there's talk about moving to 2.6 kernel in the very near future. I have a 2.4.36 kernel packaged (for my hard drive install) and I did a quick remaster, but wifi is broken in it. DSL has just about wrung all it can out of 2.4.

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Posted: Jan. 24 2008,08:11 QUOTE

It is recommended to do inside DSL, because remastering DSL requires the cloop module and tools.

Of course under Debian it's no problem, apt-get them.


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Posted: Jan. 24 2008,16:26 QUOTE

Or utilitize virtualization.
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