Skip to main content

How to install Damn Small Linux on a USB stick from Windows

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 Windows.
4. In Windows click on Start Menu -> Run. Type cmd and press Enter.
In the command line (prompt) type:
cd \syslinux\win32
syslinux.exe -ma X:
(where X is the letter of the USB flash drive.)
If you're using Windows Vista, run cmd as administrator, otherwise you will not be able to access the MBR of your USB stick.
5. Restart the computer and configure your system BIOS or Boot menu to boot DSL from USB memory. In some cases you must set the priority of boot disks to boot with the pendrive if your system BIOS lists the device as hard disk drives.

Comments

Popular posts from this blog

How to install Skype on Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx

UPDATE: Skype has now been uploaded to the "partner" official Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx repository. See Install Skype in Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx from official partner repository Command Line way Get the package: For 32-bit $ wget http://www.skype.com/go/getskype-linux-beta-ubuntu-32 For 64-bit $ wget http://www.skype.com/go/getskype-linux-beta-ubuntu-64 You will need to install the following libraries. $ sudo apt-get install libqt4-dbus libqt4-network libqt4-xml libasound2 Now install skype(the file u just downloaded, may be named intrepid-ibex) $ sudo dpkg -i skype-XXXXXXXXXXXX.deb If you still get some dependency error then just type the command below $ sudo apt-get -f install this will install the dependencies and the skype. Non - Terminal Download the setup 32 -bit 64 -bit You will these packages: libqt4-dbus libqt4-network libqt4-xml . Goto Synaptic manager and install them. Now Launch the Skype install .deb file (just double click it) and follow the on screen prompts....

gtalx: Howto Gtalk in ubuntu ( google talk )

Did you fail to use " gtalk in ubuntu " ... Now you can chat and talk to your gmail buddies in ubuntu... 1. check for gtk2.0 and qt4 $ sudo apt-get install libgtk2.0-dev $ sudo apt-get install libqt4-dev libogg-dev libtheora-dev $ sudo apt-get install libsdl-dev libavcodec-dev libswscale-dev $ sudo apt-get install libexpat-dev libraw1394-dev libvorbis-dev $ sudo apt-get install libgsm1-dev  libspeexdsp-dev libmediastreamer0-dev libortp-dev 2. Remove 'pulse audio sound server' Open synaptic package manager and remove pulse audio 3. "Download gtalx" from here Dowload it here 4. Extract the file.... $ tar -zxvf 0.0.4.tar.gz 5. Get into the directory.... $ cd 0.0.4 and then... $ sudo chmod u+x make $ ./make $ sudo ./make install 6. Enjoy..... Please comment about your installation(whether it was a success or not....) Take gtalx from Applications > Internet > gtalx Enter your gmail login information..and click connect... ...

How to install Skype on Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala

The two methods  below doesn't work now. Please see http://blog.dipinkrishna.info/2009/11/how-to-download-and-install-skype-for_3060.html for a successfull installation of skype on ubuntu. I have provided two methods. Please do comment which one is successful. Follow these steps to install skype in ubuntu 9.10 (64 bit).         First add:             deb http://packages.medibuntu.org/ karmic free non-free         to your source.list Now open a terminal and type: $ sudo wget http://www.medibuntu.org/sources.list.d/hardy.list -O /etc/apt/sources.list.d/medibuntu.list Then do an update: $ sudo apt-get update $ sudo apt-get --yes -q --allow-unauthenticated install medibuntu-keyring $ sudo apt-get -q update And finally install Skype. $ sudo apt-get install skype Ready ... now start skype with $ skype OR Download the setup 32 -bit 64 -bit Launch the Skype i...