Hi i have a small but quite annoying problem with puppy 528. fire fox is slightly bigger than my screen , which means i cant scroll down or callapse the page,

also its extremely small writing any ideas

... I have to ask though, why are there so many versions of puppy and linux in general for that matter? Are they really so different?

i cant answer that from a tech point of view but can, i think from a use point of view, the reason there are so many flavors of linux is they are written by ...

, the link says your not alone and that their is a code for freing up the bios, you just have to find it. if you post you model number up on that site they may provided it for you, they have for others

in side the lap top there is a second battery, like a watch battery, if you remove it it wipes ...

it also seems that taking the lapy apart and removing the battery works ? or if soldered in, you could resort to the old dodge of putting it in the freezer for a week

just a google later, try thisRe: BIOS Password Reset
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05-08-2012 06:10 AM

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"QWERTY" keyboard only.

if not ask here they seekm pretty clued in http://h30434.www3.hp.com/t5/Notebook-R ... 3249#M6396

so its an p4 with between a quarter and a gig of ram which is good, but the other bit has me perplexed, its possible to set a password in there to stop people messing, did you buy it second hand ? but i didnt know it shut down never to work again if you got it wrong 3 times

so this llapy your ...

you need to tell us the make model, processor and ram specification of your computer

ie IBM, thinkpad, P3 64 MBs of ram

you cant find it where ?

if you mean youve downloaded and and now you cant see it to open itwhere your correct, you need to down load image burner or iso buster, run those with iso selected as the file type and it will be there

if you mean something else, give us a clue

puupy is less dependent processors as much as ram, but il guess thats got a gig of two of ram ? in which case its space age in puppy terms

different distros have different functions and appearance and a lot is which one you prefer/get used to, like the desk top picture

with a bit of practice you ...

it try , ive never taken a screen shot before

thanks

I already booted up from flash-hdd (DSL) but even though I got connected to the web this's too limited an os as is. I'm going to try a live cd now.

Note: It's getting too late & need to sleep, so after this trial I'm shutting down. Thanks!


i think your running under a misapprehension , puupy ...

can we take it right back to basics ? what machine have you used to burn your cd and what v of puppy are you using ? thats a late machine there is no good reason why it wont boot up
to state the obvious, either your cd reader is broke or you live cd is suspect, or if youve burn it on another machine ...

As above^ .. zenfunk's PULP is a puplet that might interest/fit the old timer as well - links for dl are scattered a bit in that thread.

yvw& keep 'em flying :)

Hope this helps - I run puppy 2.16 on a compaq presario laptop with only 64 MB of RAM - I boot from a live cd, but have a save file on ...

no you dont need a hdd to boot puppy from disc, that rather the point of it, you used the cd as the hard drive and save any thing you wont to a usb stick

does the cd drive work, if so your off and running

hi, ive just done a frugal install of 214 by 9 and 10 and it wont recognise mt eithernet conection say no modem/interface detected, , other versions of puppy conect up with no bother

Hi Jobo, if you look at the end of the network cable you plug in to the PC, how many gold pins can you see? And ...

ok so you have two half working laps tops ?

why cant you boot the hp from disc, so you then have one completely working one

there is another thread where the guy is trying to do some tec difficult for no apparent reason, the reason you cant boot from wi fi, is that in order to boot you need to turn the machine and the wifi off and the wifi wont reappear till windows starts which it never would if puppy started, if you ...

i know its possibly a stupid question, but why dont you just boot the hp from disc and stick a memory stick in the usb or install it on the usb ?

or is this a project over and above just getting the hp working

is it just ''this ad'' that locks your computer up or some web pages in general ?
which version of puppy are you using ?

having a swap partition set up is quicker than a file, but with half a gig of ram, i doubt you l use it