Mark, I am very surprised to hear that the full HD-2 install was slower for you. Certainly, it boots faster, and runs in less memory! What exactly was slower about it? How much slower? martymae, I don't understand how you could have an HD-2 install and also be using pup001 at the same time -- I thou...

You definitely need to send those big downloads directly to your big /mnt/home freespace area!

http://www.chippc.com/products/jackpc/flex-jack.asp This is the weirdest hardware I've heard of for some time -- too bad there is so little information available about it -- Wonder if it actually exists... Get the pdf marketing brochure! This could be the micro-pup of our dreams -- but may not be x8...

Interesting question! I am guessing that once you have done a full install to a USB flash drive, just using that to do a hard drive install would not be that hard. You would just have to learn how to get around the weird part of the script where it wants you to supply the CD, I think just to fetch a...

Also, be aware of the dmesg ring buffer.

And you can exit Xwin to see some lingering msgs. And there may be some tricks for scrolling up into past msgs.

If you are still having issues, I think we need more details about your situation and what you are needing/wanting/trying...

Yes, Puppy might run on that computer. I have done a lot of experimenting, which you can read about in my other Forum posts. But it will not run fast; you will have to be patient! You need to know that there is a bug in 1.0.7 for machines with less than 64MB. You cannot boot unless you patch the bug...

When putting Puppy fully on hard drives, I'd say that if you want flexibility/modularity, use the HDoption-1 approach. But if you want max power/performance/Linuxness, use HDoption-2, no PUPXXX, no limits...

Great to hear of your success -- Please add tips to the wiki to help those who want to do the same kind of things -- And for such experiments, CD-RW are always better, until you have a process you know is likely to work, instead of burning coasters!

I used to feel disdain for laptops, because they were expensive and non-standard -- I would never buy one new! Now I have opposite feelings. They are readily available used, sometimes free. They are the most efficient use of space and materials. They avoid the evils of lead-based CRTs. Their capabil...

I'd like to beg you to reconsider taking Xorg out of barebones. People who need FrameBuffer need it in order to be able to boot at all! (And, it seems like Barry is moving toward dropping Xvesa.)

None of my attempts to add Xorg ever worked, until 1.0.7 came along and it was built-in.

Sorry, I can't help you, I am not printing in Linux yet... But your data will certainly be helpful to others. That seems like an incredible buy on the Samsung 22ppm laser! If you don't hear about printers specifically good for Puppy, and can't test the printer in the store, it seems like your best b...

I like what you are trying to do -- I have been thinking/working along the same lines -- let us know what you figure out! But I am confused about the specific construct -- are you sure it is legal? I thought I read that way of "including" scripts was limited to the current sub-directory, o...

I've never had a problem with a Puppy HDoption-2 install -- but I've only done it a couple times. And I do recall the script being kind of confusing at the end, where you set up GRUB! When you re-try, you might want to zero the first part of your hard drive each time, to get a clean start. And Puppy...

Yes, df is the one to trust! So, you have no problems with PUPXXX free space... but I am a little concerned that you seem to have a 10G hard drive partition that is almost full! I thought we had the partview problems fixed with 1.0.7. Please keep studying what it says versus what df reports, and pos...

Just to be clear -- the computer turns itself off? Nothing else seems wrong with your installation or your filesystems? Nothing is ever actually wrong with your files? Have you tried to study the msgs as it is shutting down, to see anything weird flashing by? What if you reboot instead of shutting d...

Re: 256MB upload limit I ferverently hope that someday there will be full-sized 700MB Puppy-related ISO files available. (Since most Puppies are probably still being burned on full-sized write-once CDs, wasting 90% of the surface, and many people do have flat-rate broadband.) But I would not expect ...

http://advancemame.sourceforge.net/doc-makebootfat.html This utility creates a bootable FAT filesystem and populates it with files and boot tools. It is mainly designed to create bootable USB and Fixed disk for the AdvanceCD project. 7) Multi Standard USB Booting The BIOS USB boot support is general...

Thanks for hosting all those complete archives of Puppy release versions!

how do you test-drive a system on ebay?

Don't wait until the last minute -- start asking questions days before the close of auction. Ask for pictures of the laptop successfully booting into a Linux LiveCD and going on the Internet -- suggest Knoppix and Puppy!

I need more details about your situation and what you are trying to do... If I take a 1.0.7 LiveCD, and an empty USB key (just for saving PUPXXX), and somehow get things working -- I don't understand how I would be able to enter commandline bootconfig parameters anywhere! Unless, you are booting fro...