DeLi Linux, results
I installed it in a qemu session. The ISO downloaded is an installer, not a
"live CD".
!. The installation is finicky and I doubt any first time user will get it
right. Instead of offering to make partions, it says "run cfdisk". I did it
and made a linux and swap partition on one disk image. Cool. This works.
Then proceded with deliinstall. One chooses one (count 'em) keyboard and later
one and only one language. The thing will make your swap after warning you
that this is dangerous if swap is active. Do it anyway. It offers three ways
to run lilo. Using its default simple method is adequate. It now asks where
to put the mbr. After accepting its default, I actually fixed it by using a
virtual knoppix session on the disk image file and put the mbr where it
belongs using fdisk.
2. Made a virtualbox vdi using its conversion tool. The iso and this file as
well hung the system on boot. Virtualbox has a weakness of not emulating a
known video device. In this case, this is fatal.
3. The fixed up disk image will boot nicely in qemu. Run delisetup. Either
choice of windowmanger yields the "failsafe" X with a vterm and blank gray
screen. Ran abiword. Could not resize the window. Got stuck in its help. Alt
control/D out. A beginning user with his/her 166mhz Pentium-antique will not
be able to figure out how to get the beautiful screenshots on the site and
how to correctly shutdown the system.
4, OK, will run nicely with a little resources. But needs more UI work to be
really practical.
5. Only provides added software from its CD. Weakness.
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