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nooby · Joined: 29 Jun 2008 Posts: 9387 Location: SwedenEurope

As I get it then
for Flash memories the Ext2 is the best choice for linux?

Colonel Panic · Joined: 16 Sep 2006 Posts: 1225

Thanks to everyone for all the advice and info concerning file systems. I think I'll try EX2IFS and see how it works out.

Cheers,

CP .

Colonel Panic · Joined: 16 Sep 2006 Posts: 1225

KDE 4.8 seems buggy to me. I tried it out on a couple of distros which had it (Mepis and Slack 14 Beta) and in each case Konqueror crashed on a link which didn’t give me any trouble in a mainstream browser.

linuxbear · Posted: Fri 03 Aug 2012, 15:41 Post subject:

alphadog · Posted: Sun 05 Aug 2012, 12:01 Post subject: Damn Small is back!!

Distrowatch have announced a rc for DSL 4.11 see here -http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=damnsmall.
Download here-http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/damnsmall/release_candidate/dsl-4.11.rc1.iso.
md5sum: ca1b7a3199d6f143818aab1e73478cac dsl-4.11.rc1.iso
Have tried it as a live cd and it looks pretty good to me

starhawk · Posted: Sun 05 Aug 2012, 14:18 Post subject:

DSL? I thought they were dead for good. Wow.

Even though I really hate the look, I'll give the new one a chance. Downloading now.

@alphadog: just a little tip... when you plunk down a link in a post, after copying it, highlight the whole link and click the little formatting button that says "URL". That way we can click on it and have it actually go somewhere, rather than having to copy/paste into a new browser tab or window. Not stop-the-presses critical necessarily, just something to remember for next time.

alphadog · Posted: Sun 05 Aug 2012, 15:27 Post subject:

Cheers Starhawk I always wondered how you did that!

nooby · Joined: 29 Jun 2008 Posts: 9387 Location: SwedenEurope

What code did you use for to make it boot on NTFS? Smile

I totally fail to boot it. First it looks for USB and fail
due to me on HD instead. So I added nousb to kernel line
but that did not help.

It fails to find the knoppix.
Maybe due to it two layers deep?
But where should I put the real knoppix
then.

DSL assume that one don't have big Knoppix installed.
Such is rude behavior in my world. I will test renaming
knoppix to bigknoppix and see what happens

title dsl
root (hd0,1)
kernel (hd0,1)/dsl/boot/isolinux/linux24 fromhd=/dev/sda2 knoppix_dir=dsl/KNOPPIX ramdisk_size=100000 init=/etc/init lang=us apm=power-off vga=791 nousb nomce noapic BOOT_IMAGE=KNOPPIX
initrd (hd0,1)/dsl/boot/isolinux/minirt24.gz

Can't find knoppix it says. should this one maybe looks like this?
knoppix_dir=/dsl/KNOPPIX or have dev or something or sda2?

I am Knoppix now and that one boot using this

title Knoppix 7.0.3 dvd ISO savedefault? sv.default_utf8=0 lang=en apm=power-off initrd=minirt.gz nomce libata.force=noncq hpsa.hpsa_allow_any=1 loglevel=1 tz=localtime
root (hd0,1)
kernel (hd0,1)/knoppix7/boot/isolinux/linux fromhd=/dev/sda2 knoppix_dir=knoppix7/KNOPPIX ramdisk_size=100000 apm=power-off vga=791 nomce loglevel=0 lang=en xkeyboard=se
xkeyboard=us
initrd (hd0,1)/knoppix7/boot/isolinux/minirt.gz
savedefault
boot
Can anyone suggest something Smile

These guys fails too.
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/damnsmalllinux-42/whats-the-best-way-to-upgrade-from-old-dsl-to-4-4-10-initrd-iso-4175414957/
http://damnsmalllinux.org/forums/index.php?topic=5.0

lowrider · Joined: 24 Jun 2011 Posts: 45 Location: Germany

corenominal the leader of the fantastic crunchbang aka #! linux has just released another testing image based on the upcoming debian stable (wheezy). it comes in 32 and 64 flavor with PAE and non-PAE kernel to suit even older hardware. Downloading and seeding right now.
If you wanna try (you should!) here is the link: http://crunchbang.org/download/testing

alphadog · Posted: Thu 09 Aug 2012, 05:00 Post subject:

@ Nooby ,if you read my post correctly I just used it as a "live" cd .I did not install DSL anywhere.
Sorry can't help more.

nooby · Joined: 29 Jun 2008 Posts: 9387 Location: SwedenEurope

Thanks Alpha

Ray MK · Joined: 05 Feb 2008 Posts: 672 Location: UK

Hi

My daughter bought me a copy of Linux User & Developer recently (issue 115) and on the cover was a dvd containing some Demo's - of the 4 that were available only 2 booted.

Mint 13 and Fedora 17. Very pleasantly surprised - especially with Fedora 17.
Very intuitive - although not much software included. Basically, very nice to use and very easy to setup (wifi etc).

An excellent example of what a noob linux user would probably wish/want for, to start using linux - full time.

Sadly, a fairly modern-ish laptop / desktop / or other contraption with a gig or 2 of ram minimum, is almost certainly needed.

On my daughter's 1yr old Emachines E732 laptop with 2gig of ram - it flies.

Still - so far - at least for me - nothing beats Puppy.

Very best regards - Ray

Colonel Panic · Joined: 16 Sep 2006 Posts: 1225

Ray MK · Joined: 05 Feb 2008 Posts: 672 Location: UK

Colonel Panic

Thanks for the tip - I'll have a look as IceWM is light enough - although I prefer XFCE (LXDE is ok too).

Have you tried the XFCE and LXDE versions of slacko, racy and wary that Jely69 made.
They are all very good.
And - Jemimah's Saluki - is outstanding.

The DVD that had the Fedora demo also has a Distro Directory - and they have provided a link to our Puppy websites.

Thanks again - very best regards - Ray