Virtual PC

Dame that’s SMALL

Today’s lab we had to use Microsoft’s virtual PC with DAMN Small Linux (DSL) to network to other class mates computers and at least ping. This OS is only 50Mb big!!!!!

First I had to open Virtual PC (Virtual PC is a free download from windows just use Google to find it) and use the set up wizard to create a new virtual machine (VM). Once your done setting up the defaults in the wizard “start” your new VM. Then you have to import an ISO file in this case it was dsl-4.4.10-initrd.iso. Once we got linux up and working we had to configure the internet address. Mine was 165.48.16.9 with a subnet mask of 255.255.254.0. To do the you go to DSL control Panel/ Netcard Config.
See photo below

Once we got this set up we had to ping our lab partner. This was a little bit harder to find. You have to go to DSL in the left bottom corner find Root shell then type ping just like we had to do for windows. It will keep pinging forever unless you stop it to do this hit esc.

See photo below for ping results