I think we are married to phpBB for the Forum -- we just need to get a full back-up infrastructure in place with due deliberation, hopefully over the next few months...

First try of Puppy2alpha / 0.0.3 / 2.4.31-lck1 LiveCD 15feb06 tested on K7S5A mbd, AMD Duron 1GHz 256MB, no hard drive NEC ND-3540A DVD burner (using CDs) built-in sound intel8x0? SiS? C-Media? *PAUSES There seem to be some short test pauses in the boot process. Fine -- but it would be nice if pause...

It seems that when you use graveman to "Duplicate CD", it first makes an iso file and then writes that file. There are two problems with this. One is that there may not be enough space for the iso file. The other problem is that you might prefer to keep the intermediary iso file. The solut...

The Wiki continues to be usable, but frustrating -- often many attempts are needed to get an wiki page edit to "take". If the Forum were ever down for an extended period of time, an announcement should be made on the main Wiki page, pupweb.org and the other main Puppy Portals. And the wiki...

Step One is to compile a list of bugs in 1.0.7, known patches, etc. It is not clear to me that amounts to enough to warrant a 1.0.8. If not, if the point of 1.0.8 is to ADD -- well, what?? I think as a group we could maybe manifest a package of fixes, but I don't think we are ready to go beyond that...

Feb 9 So, what's with "puppy+"? Nothing much. I want to differentiate my own Puppy creations from the official Puppy release. For now, whatever I release is the official Puppy, but in the future there may be a community-managed official, or reference Puppy, and my own development version ...

All modern CD-RW and DVD burners come with various kinds of buffer under-run protection (burn-proof etc).

Are these features all supported by Linux burning software? By the burning software in Puppy?

Or, is it important to get certain brands etc if you want these features to work?

At the other extreme, you can buy a brand new laptop with no hard drive for only $4,000! http://www.cdrinfo.com/Sections/News/Details.aspx?NewsId=15696 Wednesday, November 30, 2005 New Laptop Without Hard disk by NEC NEC Japan has developed a laptop computer targeted at corporate users that doesn't ...

This site has tediously even more thorough DVD burner reviews: http://cdrinfo.com/Sections/Reviews/Specific.aspx?ArticleId=14916 Very interesting to learn that even though the retail boxes require PIII-800 or even P4 1.4GHz generally, the official NEC website requires only PII-266 for basic burning....

Ram, I think you should re-consider. Maybe you should stay with the floppy boot! This is the only safe solution! There is no way to do what you want without changing your main hard drive. This has the risk of messing up your Win2000 installation! There is another weird approach to consider. Take out...

What is the best cheap new internal DVD burner to buy for an underpowered dual-boot Win98SE/Puppy system?

I have pretty much settled on the NEC ND-3540A, based on the reviews at cdfreaks, which seem to be the most detailed and technical anywhere:
http://www.cdfreaks.com/article/214/9
# Supports DVD

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Published: January 30, 2006

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Yes, I think your laptop is booting USB 1.1. And you have proved that your laptop does have a USB 2.0 port, it seems. And you seem to have proved that the 512MB USB drive can run at 2.0, and can even boot at 2.0, in some circumstances. But that does not actually tell us if your laptop can do a real ...

Unix was invented for multi-user system use. Linux has that heritage, big-system admin everything. So, in that world, for all kinds of big-system reasons, you NEVER run as root, unless there is a damn good reason. But Puppy is "different". Small, simple, personal. No messing around, just a...

For larger drives, with your old BIOS, the only way to find out if they work is to try them -- but now you have learned, even if they SEEM to be working, you won't know if they are REALLY working until you have exercised the whole surface! (I think everything bigger than 8GB has to be LBA, but I am ...

(This should be moved to Beginners Help)

Please supply more details about how your system is functioning now, and how you want it to function.

Seems like this should be moved to HOW-TO section.

You need to give more info about the computer, details, processor speed...

Yaverot, I feel reading your post that you have a personality like mine -- too careful! (Even if you could use some spellchecking...) You don't have to worry too much around Puppy-land. It is a friendly place, not too big, not too small. You can easily contribute. Just try to be helpful, wherever yo...

OK, you have a 6.8GB drive. It worked with user-defined (manual) C/H/S as 20GB -- until you tried to use the phantom part at the end that does not exist! You just need to set your BIOS to auto-detect, or manually put in the C/H/S from the disk label, or as reported by a good info program. Your 1998 ...