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From: Sjouke Burry on 3 Jun 2010 20:00 RayLopez99 wrote: > On Jun 4, 1:12 am, Mike Easter <Mi...(a)ster.invalid> wrote: >> RayLopez99 wrote: >>> Mike Easter >>> PS--Took your advice and am downloading Puppy Linux to install on an >>> old Pentium I/II...see my other thread. >> I have a system here with a modem card. XP calls it PCTel HSP56 MR >> Data/Fax/Voice/SpeakerPhone. I don't think I have used it for XP >> faxing, but maybe I have. >> >> I booted the Puppy 4.2.1 which I've had for some time to see what it >> would think about that modem (even tho' that box has an integrated >> ethernet as well as a wireless card). >> >> Puppy's 'top' dial tool is PupDial. It immediately recognized the modem >> and queried it and determined an initialization string. >> >> Then it provided me with some fields to populate for an internet connxn. >> It so happens that I have access to a dialup account, so I provided >> that and pupdialer dialed up, fed the user/pass while giving me a >> printout of the log of the transactions. >> >> I connected and browsed at dialup speeds. That was all fine -- dialup >> isn't fast. >> >> -- >> Mike Easter > > Thanks I bookmarked this for future reference....right now, as I point > out in another thread:http://groups.google.com/group/ > comp.os.linux.setup/browse_thread/thread/a120b43acb958956?hl=en# > > I'm having problems getting my mouse recognized by Puppy Linux...I'll > get a USB mouse tomm. and try some more > > RL Downloaded puppy, Had some trouble to to tell it the ethernet configuration, after that , it worked...... Sort of. It takes 3-4 minutes to start, an appears to hang in some places, but that is just to fool you. Besides the speed, I dont like the amount of questions to answer at each boot.
From: RayLopez99 on 4 Jun 2010 04:14 On Jun 4, 3:00 am, Sjouke Burry <burrynulnulf...(a)ppllaanneett.nnll> wrote: > Downloaded puppy, Had some trouble to to tell it the ethernet > configuration, after that , it worked...... Sort of. > It takes 3-4 minutes to start, an appears to hang in some places, > but that is just to fool you. > Besides the speed, I dont like the amount of questions to answer > at each boot. Sounds reasonable. Linux is hobbyware after all. But even if I can get Linux to work as badly as you say it is, it will be worth if for this machine, which is old and only a non-power user who only checks email once a day will use. Perfect for her. RL
From: Rick on 4 Jun 2010 06:57 On Fri, 04 Jun 2010 01:14:35 -0700, RayLopez99 wrote: > On Jun 4, 3:00 am, Sjouke Burry <burrynulnulf...(a)ppllaanneett.nnll> > wrote: > >> Downloaded puppy, Had some trouble to to tell it the ethernet >> configuration, after that , it worked...... Sort of. It takes 3-4 >> minutes to start, an appears to hang in some places, but that is just >> to fool you. >> Besides the speed, I dont like the amount of questions to answer at >> each boot. > > Sounds reasonable. Linux is hobbyware after all. (snip) No, it isn't. > > RL ^^^^ still can't figure it out ... -- Rick
From: Snit on 4 Jun 2010 09:44 Rick stated in post b6OdnejFTou5QZXRnZ2dnUVZ_sydnZ2d(a)supernews.com on 6/4/10 3:57 AM: > On Fri, 04 Jun 2010 01:14:35 -0700, RayLopez99 wrote: .... >> RL > ^^^^ still can't figure it out ... RL is for Ray Lopez. Not exactly hard to figure out! -- [INSERT .SIG HERE]
From: Mike Easter on 4 Jun 2010 10:28
Sjouke Burry wrote: > Besides the speed, I dont like the amount of questions to answer > at each boot. When/If you boot puppy from the live CD, when you prepare to shutdown, you are provided with options to save your personal settings and files to hdd, zip, usb, floppy. The hdd can be any partition, any kind of format including NTFS. The saved file, pup_save.2fs has a ext2 filesystem inside of it. Naturally if you choose to shutdown without saving anything, then puppy has to start from scratch (so to speak :-) when it is booted again. If you install puppy on something, then it will be more pre-rigged than a live CD. -- Mike Easter |