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From: What's in a Name? on 4 Aug 2010 07:30 On Wed, 04 Aug 2010 18:49:38 +0800, Art <null(a)zilch.com> wrote: > On Tue, 03 Aug 2010 18:11:41 +0800, "What's in a Name?" > <maxwachtel(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > >> I use grub4dos to dual boot a frugal install with w2k. I found >> instructions here. >> http://www.icpug.org.uk/national/linnwin/step00-linnwin.htm > > I condensed his instructions as follows: > > Linux Puppy 5.0.7 multi-boot for Win 2K and/or XP > ------------------------------------------------------- > 1. Download grldr and menu.lst from > http://www.icpug.org.uk/national/programs > 3. Copy both files to root c:\ > 4. Edit c:\boot.ini file in Notepad adding the last line line > c:\grldr="Start_Linux" > 5. Create folder c:\puppy507 > 6. From the Puppy 5.0.7 live cd copy 3 files initrd.gz vmlinuz > lupu-507.sfs to c:\puppy507 > If lupu-507.sfs is copied as lupu_507.sfs then rename it to change > the underscore to a minus sign. > 7. In Notepad edit c:\menu.lst adding 3 lines just prior to final line > of ### characters: > title Puppy Linux 5.0.7 > kernel (hd0,0)/puppy507/vmlinuz PMEDIA=idehd PDEV1=sda1 > Psubdir=puppy507 > initrd (hd0,0)/puppy507/initrd.gz > ---------------------------------------------- > > Works very well. > > Art I had to add pnpbios=off to get my sound working -- This message was created using Opera 10.6 on Puppy Linux 5.0.8 I'm Max Wachtel and I approve this message. Registered Linux User #393236
From: Mark Warner on 4 Aug 2010 21:22 Art wrote: > > BTW, I'm running Puppy on a old Dell Precision 330 having a > 1.7 ghz cpu and 384 meg RAM. Puppy seems suited to this > older environment. While I've never been much of a Puppy fan (no need to go into the reasons; it's mostly just a matter of taste), there's no question that nothing runs better on old, low horsepower hardware. That said, the kit you're running it on now would handle most any full featured desktop Linux. If you could get the RAM bumped up to 512 or better, that would be icing on the cake, and breathe new life into an otherwise obsolete machine. Good luck and have fun. -- Mark Warner MEPIS Linux Registered Linux User #415318 ....lose .inhibitions when replying
From: Spamblk on 5 Aug 2010 02:30 Mark Warner <mhwarner.inhibitions(a)gmail.com> wrote in news:8bui1vF33mU1(a)mid.individual.net: > While I've never been much of a Puppy fan (no need to go into the > reasons; it's mostly just a matter of taste), there's no question that > nothing runs better on old, low horsepower hardware. Puppy linux now comes in quite a few varieties. Some versions will use Fluxbox (even KDE) or will be bundled with WINE or OO and are more like mini distros (e.g GRML or X-Ubuntu).
From: Art on 5 Aug 2010 08:15 On Wed, 04 Aug 2010 21:22:08 -0400, Mark Warner <mhwarner.inhibitions(a)gmail.com> wrote: >Art wrote: >> >> BTW, I'm running Puppy on a old Dell Precision 330 having a >> 1.7 ghz cpu and 384 meg RAM. Puppy seems suited to this >> older environment. > >While I've never been much of a Puppy fan (no need to go into the >reasons; it's mostly just a matter of taste), there's no question that >nothing runs better on old, low horsepower hardware. > >That said, the kit you're running it on now would handle most any full >featured desktop Linux. If you could get the RAM bumped up to 512 or >better, that would be icing on the cake, and breathe new life into an >otherwise obsolete machine. I've been "bumping up" several older machines here because of my interest in trying out Ubuntu and Mint (for example). Since Win 2K and XP run fine with the lower resources, I got interested in Puppy (and other "lite" Linux) precisely because I don't have to "keep on bumpin" :) I'm hard pressed now to find a reason to bother with the "heavier" OS since Puppy does what I want. I know Ubuntu has tons of apps available ... I had run 9.1 for some time. But I couldn't care less about those kind of so-called advantages. >Good luck and have fun. Same to you. I most certainly am having fun :) Art
From: Craig on 5 Aug 2010 10:57
On 08/05/2010 05:15 AM, Art wrote: > I've been "bumping up" several older machines here because of my > interest in trying out Ubuntu and Mint (for example). Since Win 2K > and XP run fine with the lower resources, I got interested in Puppy > (and other "lite" Linux) precisely because I don't have to "keep on > bumpin" :) I'm hard pressed now to find a reason to bother with > the "heavier" OS since Puppy does what I want. I know Ubuntu > has tons of apps available ... I had run 9.1 for some time. But > I couldn't care less about those kind of so-called advantages. > Art; Would you say that Puppy is relatively easy to maintain & administer? The reason I ask is that my experience w/Puppy is a couple of years old and I didn't have it long enough to "maintain" it. I've been recommending and loading distos like Mint (& Ubuntu) to people precisely for its admin & maintenance ease. And congratz on rediscovering the fun in computing! -- -Craig |