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by LesF
Mon 31 May 2010, 12:34
Forum: Beginners Help ( Start Here)
Topic: Lucid Puppy frugal install failure
Replies: 3
Views: 1577

Frugal install

Thanks for that. Its an old pentium 3, only 512MB ram.

I'm determined enough to get this going, so I will dig round for a spare HD, then see how many versions of Puppy I can fill it up with.
by LesF
Mon 31 May 2010, 08:13
Forum: Beginners Help ( Start Here)
Topic: Lucid Puppy frugal install failure
Replies: 3
Views: 1577

Lucid Puppy frugal install failure

I liked the looks of lupu-501 from cd, and tried to do a manual frugal install, but it fails to boot up (lupu-501.sfs not found etc).

After messing with grub settings for far too long and reading all about Puppy installations for hours, I have found statements from Jan 2009 to the effect that Puppy ...
by LesF
Mon 26 Oct 2009, 11:38
Forum: Puppy Derivatives
Topic: Now - Puppy 4.3.1 VirtualBox - Much Simpler than Before
Replies: 45
Views: 84812

Networking is sorted

Got it sorted now. VirtualBox defaulted to NAT, changed it to bridged, rebooted the client and it came up ok.

Guess I should have read the help files a little further first :)

Thanks.
by LesF
Sat 24 Oct 2009, 04:07
Forum: Puppy Derivatives
Topic: Now - Puppy 4.3.1 VirtualBox - Much Simpler than Before
Replies: 45
Views: 84812

Im missing the networking instructions someplace

Hi all, thanks for the excellent instructions and for sharing your time.
Have installed virtual box and imported the puppy image. Cant get the browser to see out tho. What I dont seem to be able to google up is...

Do I need to mess with the networking settings on VirtualBox or use defaults.
When I ...