Questions tagged [damn-small-linux]
Damn Small Linux is a very small (50 MB) Linux distribution with a full suite of desktop utilities.
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Compile C++ 11 on Damn Small Linux?
DSL does not include any compiler (aside from a very basic ANSI C compiler), so I need to install g++ on it. Unfortunately the only gcc/g++ I could find for DSL linux is a version from 2006 (here).
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'dd' command on Damn Small Linux?
I looked at the package list of DSL, and I don't see 'dd'. For example I would like to restore /dev/sdb from an .img file like so:
dd bs=1M if=/home/myname/image.img of=/dev/sdb
What command do I ...
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Damn Small Linux: aes module not working
I try to get losetup with aes encryption working on a Damn Small Linux 4.11 rc2, but without success:
# modprobe aes
$ dd if=/dev/random ibs=512 count=256 of=crypt.img
# losetup -e aes /dev/loop0 ...
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Damn Small Linux with XAMPP Linux to create a webserver on a P4 machine or Mele A2000
A couple of days I'am busy to figure out to create a powerful light weight server that can be used as webserver to serve some simple sites that using PHP and mod-rewrite.
The P4-box (actually a ...
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How to access files on a USB stick after booting from that USB stick?
I booted computer from a USB stick using UNetBootin and Damn Small Linux. Now I want to include some files on the stick such that they'll be available to me once the computer is booted up in Linux. I ...
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how to access virtual machine through web browser?
I recently got Damn Small Linux running inside Virtual Box on Linux Mint. I was wondering if there was any way to let people connect to one of my DSL virtual machines through their web browsers from ...
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Damn Small Linux hangs on "Checking for for USB" [closed]
On boot of Damn Small Linux on a very old laptop ('98), it goes through the normal routine, until DSL checks for USB devices, at which point it hangs with the message "Checking for for USB...", and ...
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Damn Small Linux does not detect hard drive but Debian can see it
I have a Toshiba Dynabook 2010 laptop and I want to install Damn Small Linux (DSL) on it. The problem is when I boot with DSL there is no hard drive named /dev/hda1 and fdisk -l command does not ...
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If I add something to cron as a weekly job, will it not run unless my computer is on at that very exact time?
Let's say I do this:
0 0 0 * * somejob
Will this run on a set date, and if my computer is not no at that date will it skip that week?
Let's say I set this job right now. And then my computer is ...
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Smallest linux with apt repositories? [closed]
Does someone knows a small linux distro that comes with apt package?
I tried puppy linux and dsl, but I didn't like any of those.
I am looking to setup a LAMP into a virtual machine with a small ...
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What is the default root password for DSLinux?
What's the default root password in DSLinux, or in any Linux distribution?
I didn't set it.
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virt-install error: Host does not support any virtualization options
Completed CentOS 5.4 perfect install from howtoforge.com (ISPConfig 3). I have ISPConfig 3 deployed with a handful of sites. I installed xen:
yum install xen kernel-xen
I installed the recommended (...