Hi laptopnewbee and pmshah, thanks for that. I must confess I've never heard of eubonics. I must also own up to the fact that it's a language as foreign to me as Babylonic Cuneiform. I suppose that people fluent only in this language will have to provide their own technical support, like people whos...

hey ppl.i tried everythin u said n more i also wrote al d addresses and triple checked.i can connect but cant connect,wats up,can a firewal like zone alarm jam eth0 wen windows shut down,do u ppl nid any other info to help?pls do.thnx a ton in advance ( http://www.murga.org/~puppy/viewtopic.php?p=6...

ATX power supplies aren't particularly reliable unless you buy a branded one from a known good manufacturer. They are built down to an incredibly low price these days and quality has suffered. You can buy a computer case with PSU for about

I noticed this PC has a SATA disk. I'm pretty sure the booting problem is connected with this. Well, PC #2 has a SATA and a PATA disk and it boots fine (Puppy 2.01). I can also mount and read the SATA disk (although not write to it as it is NTFS). I've also tried removing the PATA disk from PC #2 (...

I use Puppy on two computers, but it completely fails to run on my third. #1 (works) Epia M6000 with 600MHz Via processor. No disk drives, boots off a 1GB compact flash card in an IDE adaptor. Wireless LAN adaptor. I built this to run various server apps for some experiments into controlling hardwar...

I think that url should be http://www.kde-look.org

Pete

Perhaps Puppy 2 should be renamed "Basenji"

Pete

It sounds to me like a problem with read/write privileges either to the /tmp folder or to bootcont.txt file. I'd boot from the CD and use the Rox filer to check access rights to the folder and the file (click the button on the toolbar to show the full details of the file and folder).

Pete

Some random reflections on hardware I've built about ten machines using Asus motherboards, and I've found them to be supremely reliable (I've obviously been lucky with caps). As for CPU's, I reckon the choice between Intel and AMD comes down to price and performance. Both work fine. As for DVD write...

I think I'll pass on that one because 1. I too have other projects. 2. I don't think my Linux experience is quite up to it! 3. In my experience with other distros it doesn't make a lot of difference if you only have a hyperthreaded processor. There mus be a good reason not to run an SMP kernel on si...

Does Puppy support SMP systems? It seems to me that the world and his dog are moving to dual core systems. On my humble P4/2.6 with hyperthreading other distros I've tried allow you to run the SMP kernel, and it behaves like a 2 processor system. As far as I can see the option to run this kernel isn...

I've run Puppy on two very different systems. A mini-ITX system with a 600MHz processor and a 1GB CF card instead of a hard disk, and a three year old P4 2.6GHz system with 120GB 7200 rpm hard disk. Both systems have 512MB of RAM and use the "frugal" install. On the P4 it flies! It boots i...

I'm seriously impressed by Puppy on a minimum system I've built. This uses a mini-ITX motherboard with 600MHz Via processor and a Compact Flash card installed in an IDE adaptor. Puppy seems ideal for systems like this, and for reviving old PC's. As for its use as a main desktop OS, I'm still not sur...

I have had precisely zero success with Puppy and Grub, I get exactly the same result with GRUB displayed on screen. As far as I'm concerned the Puppy/Grub combination is broken. By contrast I've had success using tiny.exe and linld.com, but you won't be able to use them until you have a valid MBR. T...

Something odd seems to be happening to the PS1 environment variable. If you enter sh-3.00# env the PS1 environment variable is nowhere to be found. Yet the other variables exported by /etc/profile are alive and well. If you enter sh-3.00# PS1="[\W]# " [~]# export PS1 [~]# rxvt & you ge...

The PC has a PATA drive as the boot disk, with the first partition being a 1GB FAT16 partition marked as active. I can successfully install Puppy to this if I ask the wizard to create a boot floppy. However, using the wizard, I have not been able to make the machine boot into Puppy from the hard dis...

I have a similar problem: this PC has a Microsoft Wireless Desktop Elite keyboard and a Microsoft wireless mouse. The receiver for these plugs into a single USB port. Puppy 2 lets me type "puppy pfix=ram" and gets to the point where it asks for the keyboard map. But at that point it doesn'...

I use a 1GB CF card in an IDE adaptor and it works very nicely on hardware that has no optical drive or floppy drive. I formatted it (on another machine) as a bootable DOS disk using FreeDOS, temporarily installed it in the target machine then checked that it booted to DOS. The disk now contains com...

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I invested in a Buffalo AirStation Wireless Ethernet Converter.
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That looks like a very neat solution. I wish I'd known about that device a couple of months ago!

Pete

In my opinion gobject is not part of the standard Python library. I have the full Active Python distribution here, and it's not included. More to the point, as far as I can see it doesn't appear in the official Python Library Reference. http://docs.python.org/lib/lib.html So I suspect it's an extens...