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I'd like to run a really small linux on an old Pentium 100 / 40mb ram /300+200Mb hd PC and (naturally thought of DSL, but my bios won't let me boot from cd-rom. Is there a way to make a floppy to do this? If not, what distro would you recommend that could?
After booting with the floppy, DSL doesn't recognise the cd-rom drive. Must be a driver problem. This PC is about 10 years old and the cd-rom isn't recognised by the bios. I have been successful with an old Red-Hat boot disk though, but couldn't get it done with Slackware either... Suppose this is a hardware issue though and I'd better post something in the corresponding forum...
chinaman: amigo looks great, but I'm on a 56k dial up modem... I have slackware though and I've started reading the HOWTO on minimal installation provided on the amigo home page
ke4nt sounds good, but I have a couple of questions: can I install into the same partition I put the dsl iso? (if so, using the iso is probably the cleanest way). If not. How do I get that space back?
Sorry to come late to the thread, but I'm posting in case someone else experiences your problem.
There is a different solution to those already suggested, which works (AFAICT) whenever one has a CD drive that doesn't boot. This is to use Smart Boot Manager <http://btmgr.sourceforge.net> to boot your CD for you.
If you play with different distros it's really nice having only one boot diskette.
Originally posted by linmix I've been reading the compile instructions and they sound like Chinese to me. Does look like a nice program though.
You don't need the compile instructions. In the download directory there are executables named "sbminst" for Linux and "sbminst.exe" for DOS. You only need the executable. Running it without arguments produces a list of options, including the simple way to create a floppy.
One minute to download, 15 seconds to make it executable, 3 minutes cursing and searching while looking for the floppy you thought was on your desk, 1 minute to make the floppy.
Originally posted by linmix Thanks!! I'm ashamed to recognise it, but the windows way is still the easiest way to me on many occasions
That's OK, the cure may take some time but 99% of Linux users eventually free themselves of the desire to go and have a quick look at Windows behind the bike shed.
Me, I'm starting to wonder which Linux distribution would fit best on the other disk, the one with Windows on it that's been booted up 3 times since I installed Fedora, and not at all in the last month....
Hope you get Smart Boot Manager to work for you, it's really worked well for me on a variety of machines.
Originally posted by Ygrex Tell me please, can i install dsl, compile linux-2.6.9, use RPMs and work in my custom system?
DSL is ultimately Debian-based (mostly cut down from Knoppix) so no RPMs.
If you want a custom mini system that installs well, you might give it a try though. Anyone who can make their own kernels can use .tar.gz distribution files.
Also take a look at Vector Linux Dynamite. Not quite so small, more powerful, also very good hardware detection.
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