blklbl540

1. Can I install it on my hard-drive instead of booting from the LiveCD?
2. If so, how? (Including how to erase my entire disk and load DSL from scratch)
3. Can I use KDE with DSL?

oosterhouse

Doesn't it have an installer built into it, on the desktop or something? There should be somewhere you can go into on the LiveCD that will let you install it, and just format your harddrive when you are at the partitioning stage, and either make room for only dsl or partition it how you want. Formatting will erase your harddrive, make sure you format it in the FAT filesystem though, NFTS won't work with linux. I dont know if dsl can have kde or gnome, but why do you need dsl if you want it to be bigger and have kde/gnome? Why not go with PCLinuxOS or Knoppix or Kubuntu, which all have detailed installation tutorials around.

My advice: Just google it.

bryansmith

Check out here: http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/dsl-hd-install.html

I would imagine you can get KDE through apt (I assume it uses the Debian repositories and not its own). Then again, like mentioned by oosterhouse, this kind of defeats the purpose of DSL. DSL is meant to be small. You may want to look into some of the other options listed by oosterhouse.

Bryan

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blklbl540

Well, the whole point of the question of KDE was basically to see if it would, in fact make DSL worthless... the thing is that I'm trying to set up an old computer for my parents to basically just use for the internet. They're even less computer savvy than I am, so I think KDE would be the most appealing desktop environment to them, since it's really not much of a stretch from Windows. I was to use the lightest OS possible (which I've heard is DSL) in order to minimize the load on the processor (almost 10-year old Pentium II... not exactly a screamer). I'm currently using Mandriva 2006, but it's way too much OS for the hardware and is bogging down the entire system. The same thing happened with Windows 2000.

bryansmith

You may want to look into Vector Linux as well. Here is a thread explaining some of its system requirements: http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/t45...uirements.html

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Fraggle

1) Yes you can, I've installed it on an old Pentium II too, and it works great (read fast). I think you have to type 'install' at the boot prompt instead of just entering (that's a lot easier than installing from within the live-cd)
2) The installer is pretty simple, you should have not too much problems.
3) I guess you can, but I wouldn't try it with a PII. The default Window Manager is pretty easy to work with, and it provides you with some easy configuration-utilities.