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:
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:
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.
"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.1. Format the pen drive using the FAT32 file system.
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)
FORMAT X: /fs:FAT322. Extract the contents of your dsl-embedded.zip in USB memory.
(where X is the drive of your flash 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\win32If you're using Windows Vista, run cmd as administrator, otherwise you will not be able to access the MBR of your USB stick.
syslinux.exe -ma X:
(where X is the letter of the USB flash drive.)
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.
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