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This turorial shows how to install "DSL (Damn Small Linux) on a pen drive from Windows". "Damn Small Linux" is basically a minimalist Linux distribution based on a miniaturized version of Knoppix, making DSL a perfect pendrive distribution. Based on kernel 2.4, Damn Small Linux is excellent for use on older or slow computers with little RAM (eg., 64MB of RAM). To create a portable version of Damn Small Linux on a USB memory stick, you will need: 1. A pen of at least 64MB of capacity. 2. Any compressed files extractor (Windows XP has native support for ZIP files). 3. Syslinux-XX.zip (where XX is the latest version). 4. dsl-xx-wmbedded.zip (where XX is the latest version) 1. Format the pen drive using the FAT32 file system. FORMAT X: /fs:FAT32 (where X is the drive of your flash memory) 2. Extract the contents of your dsl-embedded.zip in USB memory. 3. Extract the contents of Syslinux.zip to a folder called syslinux on the root directory of Win...

DSL (Damn Small Linux) is a mini Linux distribution that occupies only 50 MB of space, approximately. On the website of the distribution, they have published a guide to install DSL on a USB stick but it does not work, so I have posted this guide on how to install a DSL pendrive that does work and can be useful for you. Prerequisites: 1 . Pendrive USB 128 MB minimum 2. ISO image of Damn Small Linux 4.X 3. And a machine running Linux Steps to take to install DSL 4.x in a pendrive. 1. Format the pendrive. (Click here to see how to Format pendrive) 2. Create an EXT3 partition 100 MB USB memory to install the system 3. Create a FAT32 partition with the extra space (this partition is only for use on Windows) 4. Mount the ISO image downloaded to any directory $ mount imagendescargada.iso /mnt/iso -t iso9660 -o loop=/dev/loop 5. Mount the USB drive 6. Copy the contents of / mnt / iso to / mnt / usbdisk 7. Install GRUB on USB stick $ /sbin/grub-install –no-floppy –root-directory=. /dev...

You can use the utility " iotop " to find out the " disk usage of each process " running on your system. Type this command at terminal to install " iotop " on your system. $ sudo apt-get install iotop If you just want to know the cpu usage and memory usage of each process, then simply use "top" command for it. " iotop " is also same as " top ", but it shows disk usage of all processes and threads.

Carry a portable Linux version with you on a USB flash pen drive. Easily bring your portable desktop with you wherever you go. USB Linux installation enables you to install a portable Linux operating system on a flash drive or USB key no larger than your thumb (thumbdrive). This portable Linux operating system can then be run from any computer that can boot from a flash device, allowing you to bring your operating system, desktop, applications, files, email, personal settings, favorites, games and more with you. It’s your own personal operating system you can carry in your pocket. On Pendrivelinux.com, we provide many simplified portable Linux flash drive installation tutorials. Making is easy for anyone to install, boot and run Linux portably from a Pen drive!