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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...