Pizzasgood:
My petget has the same problem when run from the menu (Menu -> Setup -> Puppy Package Manager) or the Desktop ("install"). Don't know how to run it from terminal, so can't comment on that.

@BarryK: Yes - there is a carriage return immediately after the final "\" (with no space). Similarly, livepackages.txt (below) also ends with a carriage return (no space). Hope that helps. livepackages.txt "0pkgs_db-2.1.4" "0pkgs_db-2.1.4: " off " " \ "ab...

Interesting, but I seem to have the same problem. I think it was something related to installing the firefox 1.5 .pet, then installing the firefox 2.0 .pet. PetGet seems to believe that both are installed, but version 1.5 runs from the menu entry. Given PetGet will now not allow any changes, I've le...

Can't help with the screen issue, I'm afraid. As for wireless - Dell Inspirons use Intel Wireless chipsets (my 500m does anyway) - and I believe the 6400 has the ipw3945 chipset. Assuming that's true (and wireless works within Windows): 1. Boot Puppy. Click Menu -> Setup -> Network Wizard 2. In &quo...

Assuming they are both IDE hard drives, install them both in your computer. Then boot from the Puppy CD (I use 2.14). Use either Pdisk or GParted (Menu -> System) to partition the drive (e.g. hdb1, hdb5, hdb6 etc) if you want; this will also tell you what the drives are mounted as (e.g. hda, hdb). I...

I toyed with DSL (very) briefly before settling on Puppy2.14 (or LitePup) for a variety of 64Mb+ RAM machines. But that's because I was (and still am) new to Linux, and found the easy installation wizards in Puppy much more user friendly than DSL. Admittedly, DSL is a lot faster on the sub 128Mb RAM...

Asking this question on a Puppy forum will obviously get you the same answer. Just try Puppy2.14 out on them from a Live CD to make sure they can use it. If it suits them, do a "frugal" (co-exist) install to their hard drive, and keep a backup of the initial pup_save.2fs file somewhere (pe...

You might try DSL, a 2.4 kernel based linux. Was pretty quick on a Pentium 2 with 32MB RAM, but apparently runs on much less. It should even run as a live CD, and the wiki explains how to HD install.

http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/

This was the question I asked of LitePup: http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=15731&start=15 If you want a 2.14-based simple Puppy, it's got a lot to recommend it. Opera is easily added by dotpet after installation (needs qt-3.3.6 dotpet), as is Media Utility Tool (if you don't like...

Has anyone got the r8180 driver to connect with WEP? I ask, because my acx100 chipset PCI card (D-Link DWL520+) connects to my wireless network without encryption, but will not connect with either WEP or WPA encryption on Puppy either (but works fine in XP). Presumably it's something to do with the ...

Perhaps the solution is to have a linux swap partition, if you haven't already thought of that. I installed Puppy2.14 on a Dell 5000e laptop with 128Mb RAM (Celeron processor - can't remember speed, but it's about 8 years old now) and 200Mb swap partition. Also of note is that I did a "full&quo...

I did a full install of LitePup2.14 on a Toshiba laptop with 64Mb RAM. Set up a 100Mb swap partition too. Then added Opera 9.10 for browsing. Has AbiWord included for simple word processing, and Opera has built in email. Good enough for most uses. As for setting up your swap partition, LitePup loads...

Dlink DWL-520 PCI card (acx100 chipset) works on Puppy2.14, installed via Network Wizard with acx driver (auto-detected). However, I can't get WEP or WPA to work (which work fine in XP).

I had a similar problem with an old Toshiba Satelite Laptop. MUT doesn't see the CD drive after Full HD installation, although PMount recognised it fine. Seems a bit bizarre, and unfortunate, since I find MUT a lot faster than PMount.

PS: Used PuppyLite2.14

@Dieselrider: If you installed opera via PETget (to check: run PETget Package manager - click "install" on desktop, and follow links to PETget - then "qt-3.3.6: libraries needed by scribus" and "opera-9.10:" should appear on right-hand column already), then it is as sim...

I have just successfully installed LitePuppy2.14 on a P2 40MB RAM system today. Even managed to add (and run) Opera9.10 (installed by .pet following qt.pet). Not exactly blistering pace, but runs fine (with a 100MB swap partition). @karniemi: I briefly tried DSL before discovering Puppy, and actuall...

John Doe

Cheers for the .pets - work perfectly with my installation of Opera (9.10 - I think I installed it from a .pet).

I might give compiling a go when it becomes necessary for me to try again - but with helpful people like you around, it seems easier to ask for help!

Thanks again.

Not sure if I've done this right, but just copied the devx_214.sfs file to /mnt/home and rebooted (on a frugal install). The "./configure" command generates a series of "checking for..." lines, of which the majority end in "no". Finally, the last line is returned: "...

I encountered the same problem. I think the issue is that the links to GNU Aspell are all uncompiled. And given I don't know how to compile it, that's where my investigations ended.

http://aspell.net/

Help greatly appreciated. Or a .pup or .pet would be even better!

The reason I mention it is that there have, apparently, been problems with USB drives that get power from the USB port on Macs. But clearly no problems with Puppy.