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# DSL &  QEMU This is to be considered a preview Version.
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I hope you like Damn Small Linux!

Authors:
John Andrews John@damnsmalllinux.org
Robert Shingledecker Robert@damnsmalllinux.org 

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NATIVE

Booting directly into DSL via BIOS Instructions:
Make sure your machine is capable of booting from USB-ZIP
Also some machines also require that USB-KEYBOARD be also enabled in BIOS. 

Note many others use various methdos to boot from USB.
Booting from USB pendrives vary widely based on BIOS and pendrives.


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To use the Virtual Machine provided by Qemu...


When Running from Windows:
Double click on 'dsl-windows.bat'

When Running from Linux:
Mount the pendrive and then
from shell type:

 dsl-linux.sh


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To boot from the standard DSL boot usb floppy at the first boot prompt type:

boot: dsl qemu frugal

Note: we need the extra boot time option of qemu, as the standard boot usb
floopy does not know about qemu. 

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To boot from the standard DSL cdrom at the first boot prompt type:

boot: dsl fromhd=/dev/sda1 qemu frugal

Note: here need an additional boot time option to tell the standard cdrom
version to not boot from the cd, but to boot from the pendrive.

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For support go to http://www.damnsmalllinux.org
and follow the link to the fourms.
