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Faithless

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Posted: April 18 2007,02:42

Hey there. I am a relative Linux n00b ... But I recently acquired an old Pentium 3 system [733MHz] with 256 MB RAM and I wanted to install DSL on it for testing purposes. However, there is no CD drive on the machine. I currently have it running Xubuntu and connected to my main PC running Ubuntu Edgy in a local network. But, Xubuntu seems to running kind of slow on it and I want a smaller distro like DSL.

Can someone give me a walkthrough as to how I might be able to install DSL on the P3 system using the LAN instead of a CD? I would really apprecoate any assistance you could give me.

torp

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Posted: April 18 2007,11:53

hi faithless. the frugal install script has an option to install from live cd, bootable floppy, or internet (network?). i haven't tried this myself, as all of my machines have a cd. good luck and let us know. DSL will scream on your machine running in the TORAM mode.

torp

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Posted: April 18 2007,16:28

If you have a ext2/3 partition you can manually install it from xubuntu and dual-boot, if you don't want to use the script.

Download the iso/embedded zip
Extract contents.. copy these to the root of partition
(you can mount iso with `mount -o loop file.iso /mnt/mountpoint`

Code Sample

KNOPPIX/KNOPPIX
minirt24.gz
linux24

Of course if you use /boot already somewhere, you can place minirt24.gz and linux24 there.

Edit your bootloader configuration - I'm guessing with xubuntu it'll probably be grub. So, using a text editor, open up /boot/grub/menu.lst

Add in an entry for DSL: (this is a general one from wiki - edit it to your setup)

Code Sample

title DSL
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/linux24 root=/dev/hda1 frugal
initrd /boot/minirt24.gz

Or see the {iso|sys}linux.cfg for the default entries.

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