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ki4lyd,

The answer to both your questions is on the DSL home page.

System requirements:

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Damn Small is small enough and smart enough to do the following things:
--Boot from a business card CD as a live linux distribution (LiveCD)
--Boot from a USB pen drive
--Boot from within a host operating system (that's right, it can run *inside* Windows)
--Run very nicely from an IDE Compact Flash drive via a method we call "frugal install"
--Transform into a Debian OS with a traditional hard drive install
--Run light enough to power a 486DX with 16MB of Ram
--Run fully in RAM with as little as 128MB (you will be amazed at how fast your computer can be!)
--Modularly grow -- DSL is highly extendable without the need to customize

And you can purchase a DSL CD from HERE.

Cheers!

Hi, I'm new here.
I didn't want to start a whole new topic for this cause this is probably posted like a million times!

I don't have DSL (yet) but Ubuntu. I was caught up in the hype to only realise what a disappointment it was (still is)! Granted, my PC isn't the best (Celeron 800Mhz, 450MB RAM) but this thing (Ubuntu) is slower than my Windows Millenium Edition!

So now I'm seriously considering of getting DSL. I would like to install it on my HD but have some questions first which I couldn't find an answer to in the FAQ section.

1) DSL is 50MB on a LiveCD. Will it take also (exactly) that much space on the HD if installed there? And if not, why?
2) One of the things DSL is capable of doing according to the site is:

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Run fully in RAM with as little as 128MB (you will be amazed at how fast your computer can be!)

How is that possible? And do you also have to "reload" DSL into your RAM everytime you start your computer? Can you also save your settings like when you would do when you are booting from a CD?

I realise I'm asking a lot from you guys but this is my first time so please bear with me...

Thx in advance!

If you do a frugal install, you will create a partition for the boot image that'll be a bit larger than 50MB. You can partition the rest of the drive for a persistent home or backups or whatever. If you run to ram, it'll be amazingly fast, but it does take a minute to put the DSL image into RAM during boot up. I'd go for if you have 128M of RAM. Yes, you will be able to save whatever you want.

Thanks for the reply larkl!
But what are the exact steps I need to take to put DSL into RAM. Or is it done by default when you run the LiveCD??

Which one is faster? DSL running from RAM or DSL running from HD? I'm guessing the first one but I could be wrong...

This is probably not possible but I kinda wanna ask it anyway:
Can one run DSL from RAM when it's installed on the HD? In other words; you start your PC, DSL loads from HD but then you load it into the RAM and work from thereon out cause it's faster (that's what I at least think) and save whatever settings in a directory on your HD.

does this work anything liek windows or better? am i guna be totally confused trying to use dsl if im liek not a computer geek? i know enough to work windows but all i read from these forums r things that make me feel dumb...and i dont understand how to make my own cd with linux y does it have to be so hard:(

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