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Don't know if anyone has used this baby before but its worth a shot. Its only 50 megs in size :o .... and it is what's called a "live CD distro". Meaning, u don't have to actually install this O.S, just boot it from the CD and your done. Its got a word processor, spreadsheet, PDF viewer, clone for ICQ, IRC and AOL (no msn unfortunately :( ) MPEG player, Links hacked (web browser) and loads of other programs. Damn Small Linux is actually a Debian based, Knoppix deravative. Pretty cool stuff :biggthumb
http://www.damnsmalllinux.org
I downloaded it today B)
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Damn Small Linux 50 megs Linux Distro
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Posted 31 August 2003 - 09:05 PM
Thats what makes linux so great, the flexibility, linux distros can vary from a foppy to more than 7 cds. i heard of a really cool linux distro that has M.A.M.E and it boots up mame, and lets you play games = ). no installation needed.
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Posted 01 September 2003 - 10:28 PM
U'll see that DSL (short for Damn Small Linux) is not able to configure the ethernet card at starup incase u don't have a DHCP server. If this is the case, then below is how u configure your ethernet card. It is something that a friend 'Najim' from another forum posted when we talked about DSL.
$ sudo su # (now u are root) (assuming that u are running private network with Gateway IP 192.168.0.1) #ifconfig eth0 192.168.0.5 netmask 255.255.255.0 up It will assign IP 192.168.0.5 to NIC eth0 with Class three network subnet. To assign gateway/route type #route -v add -net 0.0.0.0 gw 192.168.0.1 metric 1
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Posted 11 October 2003 - 10:34 PM
:) I got a list of commands for DSL now. Just used the tab key to find out the command. Try this:
press an alphabet and then press tab twice and u'll get the list of commands starting with that alphabet B) I never knew this before :P
press an alphabet and then press tab twice and u'll get the list of commands starting with that alphabet B) I never knew this before :P
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Posted 12 October 2003 - 09:26 AM
there are a lot of linux distrobutions based off of knoppix- it's so easy to make your own knoppix build-
http://www.knoppix.n...emasteringHowto
http://www.knoppix.n...emasteringHowto
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System Requirements:
at least 1 GB of FREE RAM+Swap total (i.e 256M ram, and 750M swap AVAILABLE) (unless you use a different make_compressed_programs - see bottom of page)
3 GB free on a Linux filesystem (ext2/3, xfs, etc.) formatted disk partition
Instructions:
Boot from Knoppix CD
Configure your Internet connection (we'll need this later)
Open a root shell (Kmenu->Knoppix->Root Shell) - all commands below are run from this root shell
Find the partition you will use to work on. In this example it is called hda1 . The partition should have a minimum of 3 GB free space
Mount the partition: mount -o rw /dev/hda1 /mnt/hda1 (do it like this or you'll get errors when you later chroot)
Create a root directory to work in: mkdir /mnt/hda1/knx (put all your files here and it will be easy to clean up)
If you don't have 1 GB RAM (cat /proc/meminfo (physical+swap)) then you will need a swapfile: cd /mnt/hda1/knx ; dd if=/dev/zero of=swapfile bs=1M count=750 ; mkswap swapfile ; swapon swapfile
Make 2 directories, one for your new Master CD, one for the source, on a disk partition: mkdir /mnt/hda1/knx/master; mkdir /mnt/hda1/knx/source
mkdir /mnt/hda1/knx/source/KNOPPIX
now, copy the KNOPPIX files to your source directory : cp -Rp /KNOPPIX/* /mnt/hda1/knx/source/KNOPPIX that will take a little while :)
mkdir /mnt/hda1/knx/master/KNOPPIX
cp /cdrom/index.html /mnt/hda1/knx/master/
now, copy everything in /cdrom/KNOPPIX/ to /mnt/hda1/knx/master/KNOPPIX/ except the ~700 Mb KNOPPIX file. ( cd /cdrom/KNOPPIX;find . -size -10000k -type f -exec cp -p --parents {} /mnt/hda1/knx/master/KNOPPIX/ \; )
Now you can "chroot" into the copied KNOPPIX : chroot /mnt/hda1/knx/source/KNOPPIX
at least 1 GB of FREE RAM+Swap total (i.e 256M ram, and 750M swap AVAILABLE) (unless you use a different make_compressed_programs - see bottom of page)
3 GB free on a Linux filesystem (ext2/3, xfs, etc.) formatted disk partition
Instructions:
Boot from Knoppix CD
Configure your Internet connection (we'll need this later)
Open a root shell (Kmenu->Knoppix->Root Shell) - all commands below are run from this root shell
Find the partition you will use to work on. In this example it is called hda1 . The partition should have a minimum of 3 GB free space
Mount the partition: mount -o rw /dev/hda1 /mnt/hda1 (do it like this or you'll get errors when you later chroot)
Create a root directory to work in: mkdir /mnt/hda1/knx (put all your files here and it will be easy to clean up)
If you don't have 1 GB RAM (cat /proc/meminfo (physical+swap)) then you will need a swapfile: cd /mnt/hda1/knx ; dd if=/dev/zero of=swapfile bs=1M count=750 ; mkswap swapfile ; swapon swapfile
Make 2 directories, one for your new Master CD, one for the source, on a disk partition: mkdir /mnt/hda1/knx/master; mkdir /mnt/hda1/knx/source
mkdir /mnt/hda1/knx/source/KNOPPIX
now, copy the KNOPPIX files to your source directory : cp -Rp /KNOPPIX/* /mnt/hda1/knx/source/KNOPPIX that will take a little while :)
mkdir /mnt/hda1/knx/master/KNOPPIX
cp /cdrom/index.html /mnt/hda1/knx/master/
now, copy everything in /cdrom/KNOPPIX/ to /mnt/hda1/knx/master/KNOPPIX/ except the ~700 Mb KNOPPIX file. ( cd /cdrom/KNOPPIX;find . -size -10000k -type f -exec cp -p --parents {} /mnt/hda1/knx/master/KNOPPIX/ \; )
Now you can "chroot" into the copied KNOPPIX : chroot /mnt/hda1/knx/source/KNOPPIX
Posted 13 November 2003 - 12:43 PM
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