Base computer running Mint 21 64bit
Downloaded dsl2024 iso, used the USB maker, it wrote to the thumb drive, I tried to boot old laptop with it, old laptop says "no boot sector found on USB drive" and fails to boot. 

Tried twice, same issue. 

Help? 

I was an absolute fan of dsl back in the day, I still have all my old CDs, and I'm wanting to try this updated version so bad!!

Greats, my post is very simple:
I was downloaded first alpha for try (i used DSL many years ago), but when i'm trying to boot in an USB with Ventoy DSL don't boot. But if try to use iso in a VM (i use qemu) boot fine.
Someone was successfully boot using Ventoy

PD: i'll try to download second alpha

PPD: Sorry for my bad english,

Hi!

I am trying out the alpha - two motivations, a fun excuse to bring life back to my eeepc 701 + a desire to observe and maybe give feedback to the evolution of a new OS

A bit of context, I am not quite an intermediate linux user but not quite a novice either. I do quite a bit of python development on ubuntu in my day to day so I know my way around debian derivatives on desktop and in servers.

I have really liked the DSL2024 experience so far

The first feedback / observation I've noticed is that either there are few keyboard shortcuts that are common elsewhere, or they do not work on my eeepc keyboard - I know that the buttons work because the usual nano and tmux commands that rely on alt, shift, ctrl work.

Alt+ Tab also works, as does ctrl+w (sometimes), as does alt+f4

Could we perhaps add a way to add keyboard shortcuts? as well as a more comprehensive set of defaults

The "useful ubuntu shortcuts" are a good set to align to.

The biggest one I miss however is ctrl+alt+t which I regularly use to open a terminal - given that DSL will be so terminal and text editor heavy, I'd imagine a shortcut to quickly open up a new terminal is vital..

I will share more feedback as I get the time to play around a bit more - if there is already a way to do this, please let me know

Also - I recognize that the intent is to keep the installer as small as possible - so local docs/manuals are removed. Perhaps there is a way to make docs be served over the web? At work I have used github-pages to offer free doc hosting. Just a thought.

Just installed dsl-2024.alpha2 in Windows with Qemu. First thing I noted is that Firefox and Firefox-esr are missing from the repo. This cut works well and boots up in about 20 seconds on Qemu. Good work!!!

// meo

Fixed the "apt upgrade" breaking the menu issue.

Added syslinux-utils package to the iso.  Now DSL includes the isohybrid utility needed to install DSL onto a bootable USB drive.

Added a script to make a bootable USB drive either from the image on a liveCD or use the latest ISO from the DSL website.
(I would appreciate some feedback on this one.)

Modifies Conky so that it displays properly with 800x600 resolution.

Added the Network-Assistant utility which has been helpful on some computers with network driver issues.

Fixed the "brawer" typo that made it into some of the reviews.

Moved the "DSL File Restore" script to a more prominent place on the menu.

Miscellaneous small changes to reduce the iso size.

https://damnsmalllinux.org/2024-download.html

As someone who has used the original DSL I'm delighted to see this project revived. The initial interface looks nicely familiar. For such a compact distro I think it looks great and certainly doesn't "feel" like it's missing any of the basic core stuff, with a pleasant interface on top.

One thing I noticed in the installer is an option to include changes made to the Live desktop session! Nice touch.

I did find in my case that the default terminal wouldn't launch (the urxvt one does though!) - I haven't read the other threads on here yet so that might already be covered. I'm testing this in VirtualBox on a Manjaro KDE host.

I'll experiment with this and let you know how I get on. This will be handy to have on a USB stick so I'll include it on my Ventoy ones.


P.S. I didn't see any mention of "minimum" system requirements, but it looks like it could run (at least for basic tasks) in less than 256MB of RAM? I'll have to experiment with that. I guess 64MB might be a bit too small, though!

I've recently installed DSL 2024 on an old Asus Home Server (intel Atom) - thanks to all for the very slick distro!

However, I have been having issues with the AntiX Control Center and FluxxBox menus where some tools stop opening. In particular, the Manage Packages button does not start the app, and the Terminal menu item doesn't start Terminal. Both worked after the initial install, but the Terminal stopped opening after a few uses, and Manage Packages stopped working shortly after.

There's a chance it happened after running an apt upgrade, but I'm not certain of the timing.

Restarting session, FluxxBox, and the machine don't seem to fix it.

I can start a Terminal through File Manager, however.

Anyone else run into this and/or have suggestions as to what I messed up?

Has anyone tried to install this on a ChromeBook? They are cheap and the specs should be plenty powerful enough.... Just something I've tossed around. Never tried it so not sure if it is possible.

Got an epiphany today! Can't understand why it didn't occur to me before. Well, as the saying goes here in Sweden: Better late than never! It was about to use Qemu in Windows to run DSL-2024. This is my first experience using Qemu. I thought it would be quite easy. But, man was I wrong! First the installation (a walk in the park since it was an .exe file), setting the PATH variable was anything but easy and then making Qemu boot DSL-2024 (the final step but it could really make a first time user of Qemu go insane). Well, making a long story short. The first time I ended up with a monochrome wallpaper and a 1024x800 resolution. I noticed why almost immediately. The system was running on 111 MB of RAM. It's amazing that anything at all showed up. I just didn't know how to allocate memory. After consulting mr Google quite a few times I got a wallpaper in color and 1280x800 in resolution. But it was almost impossible to use. Finally (what I'm posting from) I got the native resolution of the screen 1920x1080 and all in full color. There is a but though, (well several actually) it took about 10 minutes to boot, an hour to upgrade and is the slowest system I've ever used. I have to mention the silver lining though, the GUI is just awesome and it's a pleasure to see how Firefox looks even if it's incredible slow. Since it took the whole day to get to this point I have a hard time shutting it down and restart with more memory allocated. Have to work out how to get the GUI to get faster. I'm open to any suggestion how to speed things up.

// meo

This is my first post here and first post on any BB.


I am running a Dell 1501. with the following specs. It's barely usable with normal Linux, so I was curious to see how it'll perform with DSL. Here are it's specs:
CPU: slow
RAM: 2GB (according to conky)
Screen: 1280x800 (according to conky)
Stock HDD about 110GBGB (according to conky)

I am a unix novice. I am a linux mint and windows 7 user. So my level of computer knowledge is low. Booting from installation media was without problems. I wanted to try a web browser with an email server, so I tried to launch badwolf and connect to proton, and I was expecting to be required to enable java script for that site. However, badwolf would not display anything to the screen. I tried some other sites and toggled some switches but nothing worked. By using dillo, I was able to get something to display, but with badwolf, nothing. I looked through the FAQ, but nothing struck me to try. I am using a linux mint system to send this. I did find a screen shot of badwolf running and there was a banner at the top, my system didn’t have one, and nothing I tried worked.

Since I am using the dell as a spreadsheet engine and gnumeric works good, I don’t need an immediate answer, but DSL runs well on the dell, so I would like to get this fixed.

John Kerschen