Installing Damn Small Linux onto your hard drive
This is a great way to extend the life of your older computers. In my case, I’ve installed it on a IBM T21 with 256MB of memory and a 30 GB hard drive. This tutorial assumes that the user has some linux and command line experience.
First, download the current.iso image and burn it to a CD. Then stick it in the CD drive of the computer in question and boot into DSL.
Then, open a terminal session, and typesudo -s
Then launch cfdisk to partition your drive.cfdisk /dev/hda
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