USB Damn Small Linux install

Damn Small Linux Screenshots:

Damn Small Linux Screenshots

Portable Damn Small Linux Basic essentials:

  • A 64MB or larger USB flash drive (fat32 formatted)
  • 7-Zip (or another extracting utility)
  • Syslinux
  • dsl-embedded.zip

Damn Small Linux USB install tutorial:

  1. Download the dsl-embedded.zip and extract the contents using 7-Zip to your “USB flash drive“
  2. Download syslinux-3.36.zip and unzip the files to a directory called syslinux on your computer
  3. From Windows click start-> run-> cmd
  4. From the command window, type cd \syslinux\win32
  5. Type syslinux.exe -ma X: (replace X with your USB drive letter) to make the drive bootable
  6. Reboot your computer and set your system BIOS or Boot Menu to boot from the USB device. In some cases, you might also need to set the hard disk boot priority to boot from the USB stick if your BIOS lists the device as a hard drive.

Notes: It is possible to “boot DSL using Qemu emulation” without the need to reboot the PC. See the included readme file that was written by the authors of DSL.

If you still can’t get DSL to work, you can try this full installation tutorial direct from the DSL wiki.

Source: http://www.pendrivelinux.com/all-in-one-usb-dsl/

~ by myfinalheaven on February 19, 2009.

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2 Responses to “USB Damn Small Linux install”

  1. plz help how i can install the said dsl! at how it wotks fro usb!! plz enail me!! tnx!1 im from phil. acom.tesh and i want to try some new tech.

    aries said this on February 12, 2011 at 5:47 pm | Reply

  2. plz help how i can install the said dsl! at how it wotks fro usb!! plz enail me!! tnx!1 im from phil. acom.tesh and i want to try some new tech. tnx!!

    aries said this on February 12, 2011 at 5:48 pm | Reply

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