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Damn Small Linux is a very small (50 MB) Linux distribution with a full suite of desktop utilities.

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Damn Small Linux (DSL) is a very small (50 MB) Linux distribution. It is designed as an extremely compact operating system that can fit on a business-card CD and run on older PC hardware—for example, machines with 486/early Pentium processors and very little memory. In spite of its small size, it offers a complete suite of utilities including a window manager, Web browser, PDF viewer, graphics editor, and media player.

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Smallest linux with apt repositories?

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 linux, and I am looking for a distro with apt because…
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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 tried copying them into a directory at the top…
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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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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 turned off 5 days from know for the whole…
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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 (linuxtopia.org) virtualization packages and…
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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 crypt.img # mkfs.ext3 /dev/loop0 # mkdir…
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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 their computers across the internet. If it's not…
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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). How can I get a recent version of g++ on DSL? I…
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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 use in DSL for this? Or is there a 'dd' command…
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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 laptop, dell latitude c640) i'm using came with windows…
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Damn Small Linux hangs on "Checking for for USB"

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 the flashing cursor stops flashing. Has anyone seen…
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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 return. I could only boot into DSL if I use the…
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