Hi everybody. unfortunately making a bootable Usb Stick from the Iso does not work. I used the Antix USBmaker. Any suggestions?

I tried installing the alpha on my ancient, now 25 or 26 year old Toshiba Satellite 320CDT -- this is a laptop with a Pentium MMX 233 CPU and 96 MB RAM. Very low spec, obviously. I think Debian 7 or 8 was the last Debian that I was able to successfully install on this machine.

Every boot option produces a screen with just this message after the kernel loads, as OCR'ed by my phone:

[ 12.6901821 Call Trace:
[ 12.690315] dump_stack+0x54/0x68
[ 12.690448] panic+Oxaf/0x254
[ 12.690547] do_exit.cold+0x1e/0xa2
[ 12.690659] do_group_exit+0x2a/0x90
[ 12.690768] [ get_signal+0x131/0x7f0
[ 12.690879] arch_do_signal_or_restart+0x78/0x5b0
[ 12.690977] ? force_sig_fault+0x50/0x70
[ 12.691108] exit_to_user_mode_prepare+0xb9/0x120 
[ 12.691221] ? exc_overflow+0x40/0x40 [
[ 12.691323] irqentry_exit_to_user_mode+0x8/0x20
[ 12.691420] irqentry_exit+0x25/0x30
[ 12.691511] exc_invalid_op+0x4a/0x60
[ 12.691621] handle_exception+0x13d/0x140
[ 12.691707] EIP: 0x80a1d0e
[ 12.691803] Code: f6 74 40 c7 co 08 08 Oe 08 8b 00 c1 e0 05 01 f0 39 f0 76 27
83 3e 07 75 1d 8b 46 14 8b 7e 1c 89 44 24 04 8b 46 10 39 f9 89 fd <0f> 43 e9 8b
76 08 89 44 24 08 eb 21 83 c6 20 eb d5 89 cd 31 ff 31
[ 12.691952] EAX: 00000000 EBX: 080cc000 ECX: 00000010 EDX: 080cc258
[ 12.6920411 ESI: 080480b4 EDI: 00000004 EBP: 00000004 ESP: bf830bd0
[ 12.692133] DS: 007b ES: 007b FS: 0000 GS: 0000 SS: 007b EFLAGS: 00010216 
[ 12.6922631 Kernel Offset: disabled
[ 12.692371] ---[ end Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init! exit
code=0x00000004 1---

Is the CPU too old? I ran a memory test and it didn't find any errors in the first pass.

Anyway, thank you for all the work you're putting into DSL!

Downloaded as soon as a member of the Puppy Linux forum informed us via post that the project was back in full swing.

I have it running nicely using a QEMU virtual machine hosted by F96-CE_4 (upgraded Puppy Linux Fossapup64).

Download size was 666 M........must be fate.......

Next test run on a bare metal WinXP era Dell Optiplex tower. Single core CPU 2 G RAM circa 2002-2004 build year.

Good Show !!

Been trying out the new DSL in Qemu, it's generally working really nicely. I've been missing this kind of fully featured live CD environment for a while now, so it's neat to see DSL come back to fill that void. This post is currently being typed from within the Damn Small Linux 2024 environment.

I have had two issues on it thus far. First one is the lack of a Finnish keyboard layout option, but I presume it will not be that hard to create my own image with it included. Second is that BadWolf seems to crash sometimes, as noted by some other users here. It doesn't seem to be consistent -- I lost the first version of this post trying to check the AntiX minimum processor requirements, but after starting it from a terminal (so that I'd see what gets printed to stderr on crash, if anything) and trying to navigate to the same page it did not crash.

Since AntiX seems to support down to Pentium II, I'll try to test DSL also on my Thinkpad T23 at some point and report back.

Because of the difficulties I am have with google under the default browser I am trying to install fire fox.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/ins...tributions

Running in VBox VM.
2GB memory 1 CPU Live session.

Tried to log into gmail. Pressed enter key
Got a 400 Error.
The server cannot process the request because it is malformed. It should not be retried. That’s all we know.

Tried again and pressing next after the email adresss garble the input field and
does not move onto the passsword.

I am logged into this form right now.

Booted in Virtual Box.  Most basic thing worked as expected.

Browsing work fine too

Booted on an Atom based HP mini PC (Mini Laptop).
1 GB  with 250 GB spinning disk.

Did not boot with the default install.
Running on the safe video mode some  messages
but it did come up. 

Trying install on hard disk.  10 minutes in   53% done.
swap partition already on hard disk  (it was prepared for Puppy but
puppy's install to HD gave me some issues)

Install done in about 20 minutes.

Tuxpuck worked fine but the game play was to fast for me to play well.

from power on to use about 1 minute


First login screen  tab does not move from Username to password fields  .
Enter does work.

Investigating some funny things with the browser. Cannot log in to gmail.

Hello everyone

Nice to see the DSL be updated! Thanks a lot to the author!

But i face a issue: I can't use the downloaded ISO to boot the VirtualBOX machine up. the MD5 is correct, what's matter?

My host system is manjaro, kernel is 6.6.10, VBOX is 7.0.12, installed from apt.

Please help me, thanks.

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