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by jonabark
Fri 20 Feb 2015, 19:10
Forum: Beginners Help ( Start Here)
Topic: I give up on Puppy.
Replies: 34
Views: 6892

I give up on Puppy.

OK, I have spent 2 days trying to get this pp to work and I've had enough. The reason I don't have dogs is the little deposits of doggy doo. Problems: 1)My netbook battery ran out with no warning and nothing saved of 5 hours of work on the precise puppy desktop. Also when I plugged in and restarted,...
by jonabark
Fri 20 Feb 2015, 16:14
Forum: Beginners Help ( Start Here)
Topic: How to install Puppy from USB in Acer Aspire?
Replies: 21
Views: 4227

OK I tried super lucid and it failed with error messages to bootup. I succeeded with Lucid (5.2.8 I think) but simply could not get it to connect to my wireless connection. It simply refused to show up. So I got frustrated and went to precise puppy after finding a discussion that said it worked on t...
by jonabark
Thu 19 Feb 2015, 19:03
Forum: Beginners Help ( Start Here)
Topic: How to install Puppy from USB in Acer Aspire?
Replies: 21
Views: 4227

I am ok with the frugal install. Not sure I get all the steps. But will read through a few more times. I chose Lucid because it comes with programs that my wife( the user) likes and is used to like libre office, shotwell really she is ok with something that has Libre Office, Shotwell, midori, a musi...
by jonabark
Thu 19 Feb 2015, 17:25
Forum: Beginners Help ( Start Here)
Topic: How to install Puppy from USB in Acer Aspire?
Replies: 21
Views: 4227

How to install Puppy from USB in Acer Aspire?

I want to install Lucid Puppy on an acer aspire one D270. I have plenty of room on the hd, some experience with Linux since I have bodhi installed through windows7( came with machine). I don't like Bodhi interface and want to try LUPU on a separate linux partition ( the info on partitioning in the b...