Introducing myself: 

I am an ornery geekly old fart well into my geezerhood. I love using Lini: the basic concepts have been very appealing. However arfter too many years with Fedora and Mint, I still feel like a rank newcomer, often overwhelmed by the jargon.

Web searches have ofen resulted in cascading confusion. I have learned  the hard way that much of the advice on the Web is outdated, irrelevant, or just outright bad. I'm still a beginner.

I doddered onto your refreshingly-forthright distro with such a delightful name. I mean, John: you could have been more polite and named it, well, you know: "Darn Small Linux," Or "Gosh-Dang Little Linux." How enticing!

Herewith, I will submit my first question in what looks like the appropriate forum.

Please admit me into your Community of the Damned!

George

I'm working on reviving some pretty old hardware that previously had DSL 4.x. Hard drive died so I'm starting "New". Might have to go back to 4.x

Panasonic Toughbook CF-45
Pentium MMX 233MHz
96MB Ram
64GB CF to IDE "hard drive"
USB 1.1
800x600 TFT 256K colors

When booting it gets stuck at "waiting for /dev to be fully populated". Searching the internets, it appears this may be a driver issue.

I see during the boot stages that it's defaulting Xorg to VESA. I believe this may be the issue as VESA never worked with this laptop.


When I boot DSL 4.x liveCD I use the use the following

fb800x600 (this option is not recognized in DSL 2024)
NO: usb mouse
Yes: IMPS/Wheel 

Looks like there's a hardware minimum that I haven't been able to find yet.

The mouse configuration tool doesn't have an option to turn on tap-to-click for touch pads. Is there a standard way to do this? I added
/etc/X11/xorg/conf.d/touchpad.conf:

Is there something I have to install or run to get a battery icon in the system tray? If there is nothing to do this, I have written my own app to do this for another distro that lacked this capability that I could adapt.

I've just put DSL2024 on two twenty-year-old Dell laptops which would otherwise have been thrown away (which I hate doing). They were both once-upon-a-time high-end expensive machines - now useless because not upgradeable (Dell were money-grubbers).

Then I clicked Donate, went to PayPal, made a donation (which seems to have gone through), but then PayPal could not send me back to the DSL website page that I had come from.
Doesn't bother me, but I thought you might want to know. Hiccups in the payment process are not good for a site that lives by donations.

I am very grateful for your work - it was the original DSL (the 50 MB one, on a Year2000 IBM Thinkpad, that got me started with Linux.

*** My username is because I teach programming to kids at a Coder Dojo (a Raspberry Pi sponsored club ***

does dsl support 486cpu eg 486dx2/dx4 amd cyrix 5x86?if not 586 cpu? pentium?

I'm trying to install Damn Small Linux on a Thinkpad 600X with a 650Mhz speed-step Pentium 3 processor. I'm booting off a cd-rom, and I've tried to install it about 8-10 times now. The first or second time, I managed to get all the way through the installer, but it said that it failed to install grub. I just rebooted and tried it again in hopes it would fix itself the next time (with default settings). This obviously didn't work.

The past few installs I've tried have all crashed somewhere in the 19-23% range, with the most recent step being "Copying new system" in the live log. I've let the installer verify the installation media most times, and never had an error. So I don't think that my CD-ROM drive is faulty, but I could be wrong. I will also note that as of writing this, the most recent crash was at 23%, which I left the live install on after it crashed, and a few minutes later my 600X graphics went haywire for a minute or so. After that, it went to a black screen (still on!) and then rebooted into the live environment by itself! The uptime was still counting after this as well so the machine never actually rebooted...

Anyways, I'm just looking to at least narrow down the problem here. I'm (trying) to install to a 64GB Yansen IDE SSD which is almost certainly just a pre-assembled msata to ide converter. Other than the SSD and the CD-ROM, I'm not really sure what the issue could be. I don't really understand why it could go through the entire installation the first time, but now it can't. I also don't understand why the graphics glitches out when I shut the laptop down, or when it happened in the previous paragraph on its own. It has a Neomagic MagicGraph256ZX GPU with 4mb of VRAM. The live installer responds well so the graphics is definitely supported in the kernel. I dunno.

Appreciate any suggestions 

EDIT: I managed to pass the 19-23% crash range by booting with failsafe graphics. I got back up to the point where grub installation fails. Then, I entered the rbind commands for /proc, /sys, etc. so that I could use lsblk in chroot of /mnt/antiX. This let me chroot in and manually run grub-install and update-grub commands. Then, I rebooted and got the following error:
"fsck.ext4: error while loading shared libraries: libuuid.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory. fsck exited with status code 127". It's a little hard for me to debug exactly what's wrong because I'm not sure what exactly happened during the automated installation process.

DSL running on GNOME Boxes(Fedora 40)
But, the screen size is fixed and it is small. like 643x402
Is there a way to increase DSL screen size in Boxes?
Thank you

Any advice on how to install dsl.2024.rc7.lz4.iso on GNOME Boxes?
When statring Boxes it says OS is not found, but I used Debian testing.
DSL started - but occupied small square of the screen.
Then when installing it (with the password demo) nothing happens.
So, any advice is appreciated

Hi,
i've hear of the mutt email program in the past, but wondered if it's easy to setup/configure?
on my little netbook i think it would be fun to try,  

thoughts on 'mutt' if used in the past or currently using it,

thanks