{"id":77,"date":"2008-08-04T14:20:35","date_gmt":"2008-08-04T12:20:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bohrium.homelinux.org\/wordpress\/?p=77"},"modified":"2011-05-27T17:36:57","modified_gmt":"2011-05-27T15:36:57","slug":"installing-dsl-on-an-old-16mb-ram-laptop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.louic.nl\/?p=77","title":{"rendered":"Installing DSL on an old (16Mb RAM) laptop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of days ago, I removed the dust from my old laptop, and installed Linux on it. I chose to install the <a href=\"http:\/\/damnsmalllinux.org\/\">damn small linux (dsl)<\/a> distro and encountered some (small) problems during installation, which I describe below.<br \/>\nSince my laptop does not have a cd-rom drive, I used a bootdisk I still had lying around from a previous version of dsl. I put the dsl image (dsl-4.2.5.iso) on a (FAT16) usb stick. Note that my old laptop cannot boot from usb, hence the bootdisk. After booting I got a segmentation fault, which was solved by booting with the following kernel options:<\/p>\n<pre>dsl lowram mem=16M vga=771<\/pre>\n<p>The vga=771 line was needed to get the display resolution right. After having booted successfully, I followed the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.damnsmalllinux.org\/wiki\/index.php\/Installing_to_the_Hard_Disk\">harddisk installation instructions<\/a>, but the dsl-hdinstall script did not run because it could not write to the \/tmp directory. The \/tmp appered to be a symlink to a ramdisk, but the ramdisk did not exist. This was easily solved:<\/p>\n<pre lang=\"bash\">rm \/tmp; mkdir \/tmp; dsl-hdinstall<\/pre>\n<p>DSL is running from my harddisk now (still using the lowram mem=16M boot options). I still need to configure a couple of things and check if all the hardware works. If anything interesting comes up, I will add it to this message.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of days ago, I removed the dust from my old laptop, and installed Linux on it. I chose to install the damn small linux (dsl) distro and encountered some (small) problems during installation, which I describe below. Since &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.louic.nl\/?p=77\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[34],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.louic.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.louic.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.louic.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.louic.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.louic.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=77"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/blog.louic.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":567,"href":"https:\/\/blog.louic.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77\/revisions\/567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.louic.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.louic.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.louic.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}