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Goober

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Posted: Sep. 16 2005,22:43

Hello,

I am getting my hands on a really, REALLY old Laptop. I am talking like 12Mb of RAM, 500Mb Hardrive, that old. I, being a Linux fan, want to install a Linux OS that will work fairly fast on it. I have Ubuntu on my desktop, but that is just too big for this Laptop, so I was pointed to DSL.

Now, I am currently - scratch that, I just downloaded the "dsl-1.5.iso". Since this Laptop doesn't have a USB port, I can't throw it on my little USB Memory Stick. Should I burn the ISO to a CD, and proceed to install it from there?

And how user-friendly is DSL? Is there a Howto that I should read first somewhere, or is it fairly straight-forward?

Thanks in advance!
Goober.

adssse

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Posted: Sep. 17 2005,04:20

I would just burn the iso to a cd. I am not sure if or how well X will run with 12mb ram. I believe the min for X is 16mb, but its worth a shot. It should at least run in CLI. As far as how user friendly it is, I think it is fairly easy to use, especially since you already have linux experience. For more info, check out the wiki.
http://damnsmalllinux.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page

sarah

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Posted: Sep. 17 2005,04:21

I'm interested in your project, as I'm about to try the same thing myself, except that I don't have access to a CD-ROM for the laptop I'll be using, although I'm now the proud owner of a parallel zip drive ;)

You might find the following links helpful:
http://damnsmalllinux.org/wiki/index.php/Installing_to_the_Hard_Disk
http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/dsl-hd-install.html

I've used DSL a couple of times before, and it booted from CD no trouble at all, but I don't know (yet) about running it on atticware.

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Goober

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Posted: Sep. 17 2005,04:21

Er, what do you mean by "X"?

If DSL1.5 doesn't run, then I shall just try something else . . . perhaps an older version of DSL?

Thanks for the Links, Sarah. When I start trying to install DSL, they might come in handy.

sarah

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Posted: Sep. 17 2005,04:33

Just out of curiosity, what is the machine you are trying to install on (make and model etc?)

There used to be a story on the dsl site about a couple of guys who booted DSL onto a 486 machine, so I reckon if it can be done on that... (hence I'm trying it with the laptop I've got)

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