Ok, I am super new at this, although ive been reading and searching the forums. Forgive me if this is in the wrong place. I just started playing with portable apps, and I love the idea of having firefox and other apps I use with me at work. I had an idea though. If I installed DSL Linux on a USB drive, and ran it on my work computer, do you think that it would detect the network connection and allow unrestricted access to the net? Let me say that I am not trying to look at anything illegal, or against company policy or anything like that. I just want to know if I can have it work like at home. Many forums and such are blocked en mass by the server, and ive even talked to the IT guy who unblocks them for me, but I hate bugging him all the time.
I have a little Linux experience, but does anyone use DSL on a regular basis? How is it? Easy to learn? Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks
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If the content is blocked at the proxy server (the most likely setup--it rarely makes sense to block at the workstation level), then running a different operating system isn't going to change that.
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Thanks for the reply. I dont know anything about the DSL instalation, but do you think it would be possible to install DSL on my 1gb drive, and still have windows apps on it as well. That way, I can use the regular portable apps when I need them, but play with the linux when I get bored. (I know that I can not run the windows apps at the same time). Will the DSL take over the whole drive, or will it act like an installed program like the others?
Thanks, and forgive my newbieness.
Hi alpha752,
If you download the DSL embedded (uses qemu emulator) or vmx (vmware image) package, you will be able to run DSL from your USB drive within windows in an emulator (the qemu version is slow but usable, whereas the vmware player version is quite fast).
Otherwise, you can download the iso file and burn it onto a cd which you can then boot off. It can also be put on your flash drive to make it bootable. In this last secenario, I don't know if you can still use it as a flash drive, or if DSL takes over completely. If you're interesting in making you USB device capable of booting DSL, read this from the DSL FAQ. I'll try it later and will get back to you on that one soon.
UPDATE:
Just tried the USB install, and it completely removes anything else on your USB drive (it warns you first), repartitions it, and creates a FAT file system. The DSL installation totaled 49MB (for DSL v2.3).
Hope this helps,
pfeerick
I would prefer to use the emulator and run it in windows. I think ill look into that. Thanks.