On Tue, Sep 29, 2020 at 12:53 PM Jason Pittman <jason.pitt...@jasonpittman.com> wrote: > > I know nothing about BusyBox, so I'm going to ask a dumb question. Does DSL > allow you to, say, install apt (or another package manager), gcc, make, etc., > or does it only allow you to run the common linux commands shown on the > BusyBox website?
Busybox collects cut down versions of standard Linux utilities and provides them as a single archive file. You can run commands in the busybox file as "busybox <command>", but the usual installation will create symlinks to the commands in the busybox archive. Busybox is popular in cases where you have low end machines where disk space may be a scarce resource. It is a program you can install the same way you install any other program, and unrelated to what you can install. Apt is a package manager for flavors of Linux built on Debian, like Ubuntu. Red Hat Linux uses on called yum. Package managers are specific to distros, and you use whatever your distro provides. > (And on a side note, has anyone actually gotten it to work? I'd already know > the answer to my question above if I could get it to do something other than > crash the VM when I run "dsl.com") What is dsl.com? It is not a command in busybox. What VM are you in when you try to run it and what are you attempting to do? If DSL refers to Damn Small Linux, see http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/wiki/index.html Installing stuff not part of the DSL installation appears to require using MyDSL extensions. ______ Dennis _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
