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Installing Damn Small Linux and R Following my experiences with Knoppix (described in another mail) I did similar test on Damn Small Linux (dsl -http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/ ). DSL was interesting, because it is the smallest yet fully functional version of Linux, hence more suited to older and smaller computers than Knoppix. Importantly, it uses lightweight windowing system (no KDE or GNOME) so its memory requirements are much smaller. Also, it seems to have a li...

Hi, The bios is not able to boot from usb, but only from floppy. I want to boot an Ubuntu-installation from usb. The iso-file was moved with usb-creator to the usb-stick. I have got a boot-floppy, which starts an DamnSmallLinux usb-stick. But this bootfloppy doesn't start the Ubuntu-usb-stick. Which parameters in syslinux.cfg I must change to start Ubuntu-Linux? There are the following files in Ubuntu-casper: initrd.gz vmlinuz The syslinux.cfg at bootfloppy begins with: DEFAULT linux24 APPEND ramdisk_size=100000...

Hi, Does anyone know of a good guide to installing distros to usb flash drives ....? I read this one but its making much sense http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/talk/node/86 Do I need to change drives in this manner for it to work ? Dave T.

Hi! I have a PXE Server witch uses a the simple menu system. Is all working great also with submenus. What i want is a entry in the pxelinux.cfg/default file that can load a non-menu cfg file for the pxelinux.0. The background is, that i have here a DamnSmallLinux that is booting from PXE. it has a own cfg file but without the simple menu system (with F1-F2-F3 and a logo.16). If i move that file as pxelinux.cfg/default its working but i need the menu first, to choose also other things. Sorry my bad english thanks in advance

Le 24/03/2015 08:34, John R Pierce a ?crit : > I'd be looking at something like TinyLinux or DamnSmallLinux on those. I don't want anything else than CentOS for the job. I used to install my own heavily customized version of Slackware on these machines (http://www.microlinux.fr/slackware/), but this was a bit of a hassle to maintain. CentOS 5.x is running perfectly well on these old PC's. My...

I have a really nice, old Libretto 110. Only 64Mb memory. I want to put Linux on it and have a network monitoring system and a traveling NAS. But all of the NASs have seemed to have grown beyond their original 64Mb size (FreeNAS now needs 128Mb). Only thing I have found is: http://www.linux-watch.com/news/NS8289526009.html Talking about Unbutu 6.0 and the 'Server' install that can

Hi list! I'm trying to make a hd image with can boot from memdisk over PXE. So this is what i did: - Created a new VM [VMware] -Installed DOS on a 100MB HD from a floppy -bootet Linux over PXE [DamnSmallLinux] -in terminal: dd if=/dev/hda of=dos.img This image [dos.img] isn't working! Memdisk loads the Image and boots the HD! The error message is something like this: I/O Device Error... Replace disk and press any key The interessting thing is that this message appears in German and the only g...

Hi, I often have to deal with relatively obsolete hardware in schools, public libraries, small town halls, etc. I still have a handful of CentOS 5.x installations around for these, but I wonder what CentOS 6.x desktop specs are, e. g. the minimum requirements (in terms of CPU and RAM) to reasonably run it. Will a battered first-generation P-IV with 512 MB RAM be sufficient? How much RAM does

...rw- #effective:rw- mask:rw- other:r-- However, running qemu with kqemu enabled shows me the message that kqemu acceleration is not enabled. Hmmm. Change to 664, it works. Argh. This kind of hackery worked when I wanted to get read access to my real /dev/dsk/c0d0p0 so I could use DamnSmallLinux to read my NTFS XP partition. Ideas? -- This message posted from opensolaris.org

...RAM) to reasonably run it. Will a battered first-generation P-IV > with 512 MB RAM be sufficient? How much RAM does 6.x's graphical > installer require to even start? Or is it better to opt for CentOS 5.x > on this sort of dinosaur? I'd be looking at something like TinyLinux or DamnSmallLinux on those. -- john, recycling bits in santa cruz

On Tue, 2015-03-24 at 09:38 +0100, Niki Kovacs wrote: > Le 24/03/2015 08:34, John R Pierce a ?crit : > > I'd be looking at something like TinyLinux or DamnSmallLinux on those. > > I don't want anything else than CentOS for the job. > > I used to install my own heavily customized version of Slackware on > these machines (http://www.microlinux.fr/slackware/), but this was a bit > of a hassle to maintain. > > CentOS 5.x is running...

Here are 2 different 4Gb USB drives. Flash memory: http://www.ecost.com/ecost/shop/detail~dpno~339754.asp $143 Mini Drive: http://www.ecost.com/ecost/shop/detail~dpno~306189.asp $80 How does one load Centos on these? Can you boot from CD, point to an FTP server for OS, and install on the USB drive, eventhough the system has its own harddrive? Does the install have to be for a specific

I may not agree with everything they say, such as ISPConfig (I prefer webmin) but this tutorial offers a "step by step opportunity for newbies". Does this indicate that CentOS is now a "mainstream" distro? (Technically speaking its not CentOS 4.3 but CentOS 4 Update 3 but we are not into semantics). Article on Slash :- http://linux.slashdot.org/linux/06/05/01/1049254.shtml

I've found an old IBM OmniBook 800 and am curious whether I can get it going again. (Currently it boots either Windows 95 or some then-contemporary version of Slackware.) The CDROM is external (SCSI, I think) and the machine won't boot from it, so it'd require a boot floppy. Any suggestions? Or is CentOS entirely the wrong Linux to be thinking about for this?

Hi; I'm new to the CentOS list and I only have experience with CentOS 4.3/4.4 on desktops. I just installed CentOS 4.4 on a very old Dell Inspiron 3500 laptop. I choose the desktop option and then deleted the kde and gnome packages because I have only 192mb RAM and 4gb disk (total). I'd like suggestions on how to maximize the effective usage of the laptop with CentOS 4.4...as a

David Christensen wrote: > It seems that most Linux distributions I look at are dropping support > for 32-bit hardware. Aren't you using Debian? AFAIK jessie supports i586, so if Pentium is old enough for you you're good to go for likely at least two more years. After that I guess I'd be using old unsupported Debians for the ancient ones. I don't have this old hw on the

Hi all, Is it possible to take the 686 CentOS 5, install that in virtual machine, install a custom kernel that is the 486 flavor, take that image and put it on a 8G CF card - insert that into a small form factor 486 class machine and have that work? I am hoping the extra instructions in a 686 (MMX, SEE etc) are not used by any libraries that I would be using (just standard stuff) and the new

...d on Debian 2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puppy_Linux Puppy 6 is built from Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr packages, 3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubuntu_%28operating_system%29 Ubuntu (/??bu?nt?/ uu-BOON-tuu, stylized as ubuntu)[11] is a Debian-based Linux operating system 4. http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/ Transform into a Debian OS with a traditional hard drive install SuSE tries to hide everything behind GUI's (much like Windows). I prefer the UNIX way -- plain text files. I tried (and failed with) Slackware once. It left me with the impression that Slackware is learner adverse....

A friend has an old Pentium-133 laptop with 32MB of memory and a 1.3 GB hard disk that he wants to use as a web server for a very small community. Will CentOS (or any other RHEL derived distribution for that matter) install and run with acceptable performance on such a system, or will a specialized distribution like Damn Small Linux be a better choice? In this case, disk space is not a big

Hi! and a warm hello to the CentOS team. I have a work for which I need some solution from you. Actually we have some thin clients where we want to put a light weight Linux distro for users. As of now I have tested with Fedora and Ubuntu distros but the issue I am finding is they are not able to fit in my requirement of flash based hard disk consumption (~500 MB). although a distro named TinyME