The page http://puppylinux.net/development/howpuppyworks.html has a fairly thorough discussion about Puppy's filesystem, but was a bit confusing in this contradiction: Writes to Flash occur every 30 minutes: # Works with any size Flash drive (minimum 128M). # Saves ramdisk (your working files) to Fl...

Thanks for the reply raffy. Yes, all the installs in the current version of Puppy Universal Installer are very easy indeed. The trouble was in trying to find out (by wading through two years old posts on the Wiki and Forum) what exactly happens with each different type of install. Would I have a swa...

Spectre5, Did you try installing with FAT32 or FAT16? Also, VTC, have you compared the dis-/advantages of frugal vs the "CF in IDE" install options, or can you comment on which is better for a CF in CF-IDE adapter? Also, Raffy, I want to avoid cross-posting the same question, so here is a ...

Raffy, What exactly occurs during a CF in IDE adapter type install? I.e. is it like a "frugal" or "full" install? Will Puppy load into RAM? Will there be a swap file in RAM or on CF? Is this documented somewhere in Wiki or Forum or elsewhere? I tried to search for the info today ...

To Béèm: I watched the OQO video from the link you provided. First off, the maker of the video was using a USB Flash drive, and not a Compactflash card, which while both having flash memory, operate quite differently. Furthermore, the issues with CF-IDE adapter installs and USB flash installs are di...

Would the best option to minimize read-writes to CF be to install Puppy as a HD frugal install onto the CF-IDE flashdrive? Then, as I understand, GRUB on the CF card finds the read-only files on the CF as it would on a CD and loads into RAM, and only at shutdown offers option to save data. Or is the...

Seems that the bugs in LogFS concerning unmounts of drives would not be as much of a concern to a CF-IDE flashdrive. The compression appears to have issues at the moment, but would there really be any need for compression for a system that has a slow processor and one that loads the kernel and files...

Aloha All, The Puppy CE announcement on Distrowatch caught my attention and drew me back to this Puppy board again after a long absence. I was going to make a suggestion, but fortunately there is no need for that and I'm even more pleased to see that someone already has made it; Namely, the need/des...

Is #9 the all-time high score?

tempestuous, Thanks for the great job with the drivers. It is unfortunate that they won't work with 2.02. In anticipation of future Kernel, module, etc. upgrades which will make recompiling drivers necessary, it might be best if everyone simply compiled whatever driver they need. However, since I do...

In order to avoid any public domain / right of use issues, I can take a few photos in the next couple of weeks for desktop background, and try my best to compress them to a small size for Puppy, and post them here for evaluation. Hawai'i is quite picturesque so it's actually hard to take a bad photo...

Yes, they have the same chip (although device ID is slightly different). Incidentally, among my collection of wireless adapters I have both of the cards you've mentioned. Once I find some time to do it, I will install MadWifi and compare the two for features and throughput. While having the same chi...

Well yes, rarsa, that *will* put a bootloader on the disk, but you still have to: 1. Make sure that this disk is the primary boot disk in BIOS options or BIOS won't look for and hand over control to its MBR sector's GRUB stage1 after the other disks are reconnected if one of them is the first boot d...

Yes that's right, GuestToo. We're using the word "uninstall" in a fairly liberal fashion, and as I mentioned in a previous post, the GRUB documentation's FAQ makes the same point about terminology. Here is the complete entry: 12. How to uninstall GRUB from my hard disk drive? There is no c...

Well yes, if it works as well as you need it to work, then "don't fix it if it ain't broke". If your signal strength is very strong, it won't make much difference wether you're getting 11Mbps or 5Mbps because your CableLAN or DSL (or ADSL, etc) connection is likely to have lower throughput...

GRUB is fine for advanced users, but I wonder... how many potential linux users have been permanently turned off by disastrous uninstall atttempts? Its XP at fault of course, but also linux coders who leave jobs half-done. You're most likely right in that many people who've very briefly tried a Lin...

Thanks aahhaaa, My initial post was *not* meant to be rude in tone, but rather :roll: in tone... I'll consider how to edit it, but for now, I *strongly* believe that in the HOWTO section, what forum members should find is information which is as accurate and complete as possible. If I didn't know ho...

Hmm... For a GRUB install, it should not make a difference whether or not GRUB stage1.5 and stage2 are called from the MBR or from somewhere else (El-Torito CD or floppy). The MBR will contain a stage1 loader pointing to the next 512 byte sector, which usally tends to be the next sector after the 51...

Edit and additions to above: Regarding "splahsimage" support: The Rutger's link http://ruslug.rutgers.edu/~mcgrof/grub-images/ for GRUB splahsimage HOWTO is referenced at http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/ under "Useful Links". The http://www.bootsplash.org/index.html link, which ...

You can use duct tape on your monitor, but please note that this does not work well with TFTs. With CRTs it's good, but you should no longer use the mouse or any scrollkeys.