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CrunchBang vs Damn Small Linux vs Puppy

location: ubuntuforums.com - date: March 20, 2011
Hi, Besides Ubuntu 10.10 I am using CrunchBang 10 openbox on the old Celeron computer (see my sig. ). CrunchBang is running well but even a little multitasking is making my pc slow. For example, if I run FF alone it performs well but if I try to listen to some music using vlc or smplayer it becomes very slow. Now, has anyone here used both CrunchBang & DSL or CrunchBang & Puppy ? I am trying to know which one of these is the lightest & can be installed to hard drive ? Please confine your choice within these three. Thanks in advance.

damn small linux kernel version...

location: ubuntuforums.com - date: January 25, 2008
hey, does anyone know what version of the kernel DSL uses now, and has anyone tried it out on vmware?

Black Screen on Damn Small Linux Live CD loadup?

location: ubuntuforums.com - date: October 26, 2012
Hey guys. Ages ago i put a post on these forums about a problem i had when i booted. (It dropped me to a command line for no reason). This time the problem is even less self explanatory than the last. Now for some reason when i boot it says loading (whatever those 2 files are ) And then goes to a black screen.. My computer isn't old. Its pretty new. (HP G62, Quad Core i3, 2gb RAM, main os is vista) Can someone come up with a solution?

Help me install program on Damn Small Linux

location: linuxquestions.com - date: June 23, 2005
I need to put some new programs on Damn Small Linux (It is on my hard disk) i put in a cd and navigated to the program i want using emelfm i choose to "Unpack" and it unpacks but i can't open it. Is there any way to install programs on the command line or any other way i dont care what i have to do i just want to put more programs on DSL also can someone please tell me how to add AND remove icon from the desktop

Damn Small Linux, Monkey Web Server, & PHP

location: ubuntuforums.com - date: October 30, 2011
I installed DSL on a REALLY old computer. I want turn it into a web-server that runs internally, within my LAN. DSL has Monkey Web Server built-in. I've configured it so that it starts when the computer boots up (I also set BetaFTP and SSH to start on boot). I can add files to /opt/monkey-0.9.2/htdocs but I cannot get PHP files to display properly. I installed the "php-4-monkey-0.9.1.tar.gz" package listed in the MyDSL Browser. After installing the package, I now have a php folder at /opt/ (this php folder wasn't there before the php package install). If I create the following document: Code: <?php phpinfo(); ?> and save it as /opt/monkey-0.9.2/htdocs/filename.php I see the source code instead of what the script should spit out. It's been a while since I messed around with configurations and setting up web servers... What's my next step?

Damn Small Linux rip ISO to a partition and having grub see it to boot from it

location: ubuntuforums.com - date: June 13, 2011
All, I'm trying to figure out how to do this, and it's proving to be a pain, unless you have another HDD or burnable cd. Here's the gist of it: My friend downloaded and burned DSL to a disc, thinking it would support flash, videos, etc. but it doesn't due to the kernel being so old (2.4.xx). So we downloaded Xubuntu Natty ISO, but he doesn't have a blank CD to burn it to. So I figured, why don't we partition the drive, rip the ISO to an unformatted partition, update grub to allow booting from it, and boot into Xubuntu install, and go from there. Anyone have any ideas how to do that? I know we'd do: dd if=iso_file of=/dev/hda2 (for the partition) I just don't know how to update grub to allow booting directly from the /dev/hda2 partition. (The reason HDA2 and not HDA or HDA1 is cause the ISO is on HDA1). Tricky isn't it?

CrunchBang vs Damn Small Linux vs Puppy

location: ubuntuforums.com - date: March 20, 2011
Hi, Besides Ubuntu 10.10 I am using CrunchBang 10 openbox on the old Celeron computer (see my sig. ). CrunchBang is running well but even a little multitasking is making my pc slow. For example, if I run FF alone it performs well but if I try to listen to some music using vlc or smplayer it becomes very slow. Now, has anyone here used both CrunchBang & DSL or CrunchBang & Puppy ? I am trying to know which one of these is the lightest & can be installed to hard drive ? Please confine your choice within these three. Thanks in advance.

[SOLVED] Damn Small Linux Internet Problems

location: ubuntuforums.com - date: December 12, 2007
Well I've installed Damn Small Linux onto a flash drive and have managed to boot into it however the internet doesn't work. My ethernet hardware is: "3com 3c920 integrated fast ethernet controller 3c905c-tx compatible". After a google search and viewing some irc logs it seems that this particular NIC is problematic in Linux. So has anyone managed to get this to work in DSL or have any clues on how to do so? Thanks in advance,

Installing Damn Small Linux on a Toshiba...

location: linux.com - date: January 17, 2010
Installing Damn Small Linux on a Toshiba Satellite Pro 405CS i had to do that because i can only get short title. ok, to the point. i am an active ubuntu user; i have it as my host os. but i have 3 very, very old computers, and they all are toshiba satellite pro 405CS's. they all have the same stuff. win95, 40MB of ram, etc,. the only differences are the hard drives, and their space. these computers have the option of external drives. so i have 1 CD-R drive (which has to be internal), and 4 3.5 inch floppy drives, two of which can be external. my problem is getting the system to boot from either the floppy disc or the disc drive. there is no option in the BIOS menus about cd booting, just hard drive and floppy booting. so i figured that i would take the DSL floppy boot image, extract it to a cd, and put the contents of the cd on a floppy to boot from. well, that failed as well. so does anyone know of a way that i might be able to get this to work?

USB Boot Damn Small Linux problem

location: ubuntuforums.com - date: October 3, 2008
Hi, I am trying to boot Damn Small Linux from a USB stick. While DSL was loading up, it got to looking for CDROM in /dev/sda1 and eventually timed out saying that the KNOPPIX file system could not be found. Does anyone know what I should do to fix this? the Knoppix file is in the USB stick. Thanks!