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Did I install DSL (Damn Small Linux) Correctly? =S?

Posted on December 12, 2011 by admin| 1 Comment

I have always been a mac guy but lately have been messing around with the command line and also learning how to program in Ruby. Today, I decided to install Damn Small Linux on my old computer in the garage. So I popped in the live cd, tested it out, then decided to do a hard drive install. I restarted, typed “install” at the command prompt then a list of options popped up. I went into cfdisk and deleted the windows partition (so there was my entire harddisk space free–no other partitions.) Then I clicked Create and clicked Primary and it asked how much space I wanted to use–I put half the total amount. Then I clicked create again and this time I clicked (I think it was called secondary or something like that??) and made the space the rest of the space I had left…this is the part that confused me. I wasn’t sure if I should have just made one primary linux partition or the two. Then it asked me if I wanted to install a boot loader (I guessed and said yes.) Did I do it right?
Oh, and after creating the two partitions I wrote them both to the disk, then said yes to installing Grub boot loader. Do I need a boot loader if only running DSL and no other OS? I also created two users, 1 root and 2 dsl–and gave them different passwords. Lastly, if I want to save a file to the desktop, it says there is no “Desktop” directory, so where do I save it to? On my mac I save my program files in a folder titled, “programs” then open the terminal and type: cd Desktop/programs
then type: ruby filename.rb
and it runs. How do I do this on DSL or linux in general?

Thanks!!

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Damn Small Linux and an HP Pavillion 6735?

Posted on December 2, 2011 by admin| 1 Comment

I started playing around with an old HP Pavilion 6735 and damn small linux. I tried to boot it up from the live CD as normal, it said “undefined mode number” so I just pressed space to skip, it started up but the graphics were all distorted and grainy.

Then I rebooted and used the boot cheat code: dsl 2
When it got to the terminal, I typed in: Xvesa -listmodes
The 2 best resolutions and color depths I got were: 800x600x16 and 1024x768x8
8 bit color depth is a little low, so I rebooted and used a cheatcode to boot it into 800x600x16. Everything went fine and the colors were perfect

My question is:
Is the reason the colors get distorted on default boot-up (1024x768x24) because my computer’s GPU can’t handle that resolution and color depth?
why doesn’t anyone answer when the question has to do with damn small linux?

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how can I put a bootable Linux on my thumb drive?

Posted on June 6, 2011 by admin| 2 Comments

I have a 2.0 GB usb 2 thumb drive and want to put Linux on it to boot from, like a live CD Idead, only not as limiting on drive space. Thanks!! Also which distro is best?

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Make free space into D: drive! Help please!?

Posted on July 24, 2010 by admin| 6 Comments

Due to messing with Linux installations and partitions, I have deleted my D: partition.

My D: partition was on my computer when I bought it, and I thought it was another hard disk. Now, I accidentally deleted the partitions, and I have a 69 GB partition for Windows Vista, a 10 GB partition of WinRE, and about 220 GB of free space.

Since im such a beginner at partitions, I want to know how I can make that free space into a big D: partition, for storing movies and stuff, no OSes.

I booted a Linux Mint live cd, and went into the partitioner, Gparted or something. But there are several “modes” a can choose, including ext2, ext3, ext4, switch space, among others. Then theres the option of primary or secondary partition. What do I need to choose to get another partition just for storing data?
arou42, just to correct you… I didnt delete my WinRE partition. And I’ve downloaded a recovery cd anyways.

The rest: Thanks, ill try :D
one more thing, i remembered as I read through the answers.
I want to be able to see the D: partition from My Computer (Vista)
should I put the root directory thing to “/”?

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My computer crashed and I cant load windows…can someone help with a good Live OS (CD) and some options?

Posted on July 22, 2010 by admin| 4 Comments

The other day my computer suddenly ran VERY sluggishly so I restarted it and it immediatly booted into the windows Checkdisk…ran through and said there was at least one problem but then windows loaded. Once windows loaded, I started getting pop-ups saying this couldnt load, that couldnt load….and I had to restart. Checkdisk ran again and this time a bunch of files I’ve never seen started being deleted…”M$01″ or something like that. Once about 50 files were deleted, it then started “restoring” 50 more “Orphan” files but before it finished, it said there was “insufficient disk space”. I have a 640GB Western Digital HD with only 100GB used on it so I had plenty of free space.

The next time it tried to load, it didn’t even make it to checkdisk, it said something along the lines of can not load windows, can not find file “c:windowssystem32configsystem”.

Soooooo…I spent 15 hours trying to use the windows restore disc and run the restore option through the dos prompt and when trying to reload an old restore point, it kept telling me the information was invalid. I then tried to get a LiveOS (Knoppix and also MEPIS linux LIVE OS CD’s) but knoppix wouldnt even load and MEPIS had about 15 errors but would eventually load. I could get into MEPIS but not see my C drive or D drive. (although it did show C drive but did not show how much space there was or anything else…and the only option I had was to “mount” the hard drive.) I did not try mounting the drive because I am afraid I would erase the information I am trying to recover.

I have a second hard drive running now with XP home (SATA) and the old hard drive with the information I want is disconnected because it too is a SATA drive and my CD rom is a SATA and I only have 2 SATA connections on my MB.

Can anyone help!?!? I really need the pictures off my old disk as they are all of the pictures of my 9 month old child and I’d hate to lose them. I tried calling a “professional” service but he didn’t even know about a LIVE OS cd so I am skeptical to spend $300 for them to say it’s fried. I am looking for software of some idea of how to get my information back and then I will re-format the drive. Thanks and I know it’s a long post but I would really appreciate any input.

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