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Re: [LUG] Damned Small Linux

 

William Fidell wrote:
> David Bell wrote:
>   
>> The other day I "rescued" an Intel Celerion P500+ box from the recycling centre 
>> as it looked in good condition, complete with a removable HDD tray.  I checked it 
>> out and found that someone had installed SuSE v10 on it, found it incredibly slow 
>> and promptly junked it.
>>
>> I intended to use it to upgrade my IPCop box but firstly installed Damn Small 
>> Linux on the HDD to check the box see what DSL was like.  It ran so fast that I 
>> then installed it on this, my old IPCop box, a P133 with 96Mb of RAM.  Again I 
>> was very surprised haw fast the applications on DSL ran. Looks like a very 
>> interesting little Debian based distro and ideal as a starter distro for someone 
>> with very limited means who is interested in trying GNU/Linux out.  There are 
>> plenty of applications on this 50Mb distro, including APT.  The person who 
>> ditched the P500 (leaving his name and address in an Open Office document) did me 
>> a favour:-)
> I too have been inpressed by DSL's speed and bundled apps.  It was nice 
> to play around with a different window manager as well.
>
> However, when I used it to try and recover a Dell Laptop with WinXp 
> installed I had no real success for two reasons :- It failed to pick up 
> any network, neither card nor wireless, and it could not write to NTFS.
>
> It is possible or even probable that these issues were caused by either 
> Dell's imcompetance or mine.  And I believe I could have tweaked DSL to 
>   include NTFS, but didn't have the time.
>
> But, as David said, for 50mb a whole OS is pretty amazing really. 
> Although, when burning to CD I did feel guilty for wasting the rest of 
> the space available!
>
> Wills

If you're after a CD-bootable system that will enable you to recover 
wrecked NTFS partitions, you could try either INSERT 
(http://www.inside-security.de/insert_en.html) or for a more "hardcore" 
set of utilities, there is always the Sleuth CD 
(http://www.linux-forensics.com).

Grant.

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