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- Fri 13 Aug 2010, 05:22
- Forum: Puppy Derivatives
- Topic: "Living Water 2.17" by ttuuxxx
- Replies: 101
- Views: 75976
I am testing a new laptop (Compaq Presario CQ62). Living Water 2.17 is the only Puppy that will run on it. Unfortunately, I can get the wireless to work. It simply doesn't see the built in wireless. Of course I am using an earlier version of Living Water. Does the most recent version work well on a ...
- Sun 18 Jul 2010, 02:52
- Forum: Truly off-topic conversations
- Topic: Compassion, "Obamacare" style
- Replies: 33
- Views: 3561
Truthfully, its not the job of the government to provide health care in this country. It wasn't written into the Constitution or the amendments. Especially given that the Obama health care plan costs several trillion that we don't have. Where do they expect to get that money? Taxes? Given the curren...
- Fri 16 Jul 2010, 04:09
- Forum: Truly off-topic conversations
- Topic: Your IP address is showing
- Replies: 29
- Views: 3847
- Mon 12 Jul 2010, 09:18
- Forum: Truly off-topic conversations
- Topic: Non-Puppy Linux Problem
- Replies: 19
- Views: 2977
I tried basic linux before discovering puppy, and it still works for me. Rather than deal with floppies, download the file bl3-50.zip from the BL3 site ( http://volny.cz/basiclinux ). This zip archive contains README.TXT SWAP.ZIP FS.IMG (20MB ext2) INITFS.GZ (gzipped ext2 filesystem) BOOT.BAT LOADL...
- Mon 05 Jul 2010, 09:14
- Forum: Truly off-topic conversations
- Topic: Household hint from FaceBook
- Replies: 5
- Views: 977
Household hint from FaceBook
I can't verify that these work, but I plan to try a couple of them soon. 1. Budweiser beer conditions the hair 2. Pam cooking spray will dry finger nail polish 3. Cool whip will condition your hair in 15 minutes 4. Mayonnaise will KILL LICE, it will also condition your hair 5. Elmer's Glue - paint o...
- Fri 02 Jul 2010, 05:06
- Forum: Truly off-topic conversations
- Topic: Is this fungus a Death Cap?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 1841
Re: Is this fungus a Death Cap?
Bit difficult to do horror on a lovely sunny English day but I tried :? Maybe I should have gone up town and filmed some of the politicians and BP building? :) Probably sell more tickets. BP affiliate ARCO is starting to lose money, and you can see it here in Tacoma when they sell fuel at $2.65 a g...
- Sun 27 Jun 2010, 08:02
- Forum: Truly off-topic conversations
- Topic: Non-Puppy Linux Problem
- Replies: 19
- Views: 2977
I attempted to add Basic Linux to the /custom directory on UBCD4.11. Result? It starts to load and then asks for the second disk. Unfortunately, I don't know how to get the *.IMG to recognize that DISK2.TGZ is there in the /custom directory. I wonder if I need to also add DISK2.TGZ to the *.cfg file...
- Thu 24 Jun 2010, 13:44
- Forum: Truly off-topic conversations
- Topic: Non-Puppy Linux Problem
- Replies: 19
- Views: 2977
That's an interesting approach. The laptop does support CD boot so running Puppy is possible (though slow). I can possibly get it to support a wireless connect to download the DISK1.IMG and DISK2.TGZ files. I may try that first this evening and then try the make an ISOLInux CD approach if that doesn...
- Thu 24 Jun 2010, 07:04
- Forum: Truly off-topic conversations
- Topic: Non-Puppy Linux Problem
- Replies: 19
- Views: 2977
- Wed 23 Jun 2010, 13:09
- Forum: Truly off-topic conversations
- Topic: Non-Puppy Linux Problem
- Replies: 19
- Views: 2977
- Mon 21 Jun 2010, 10:56
- Forum: Truly off-topic conversations
- Topic: Non-Puppy Linux Problem
- Replies: 19
- Views: 2977
nooby, Basic Linux is partly based upon Slackware 4.0 and can use package from such. However, the ISO file alone is 649Mb. I doubt that it would run very well if at all on the Gateway given its limited ram. Also, I have attempted to use a USB floppy drive to boot the Gateway from floppy and it seems...
- Mon 21 Jun 2010, 09:35
- Forum: Truly off-topic conversations
- Topic: Oil Spill Is Really Pissing Me Off!!!!
- Replies: 141
- Views: 18036
- Mon 21 Jun 2010, 09:32
- Forum: Truly off-topic conversations
- Topic: Non-Puppy Linux Problem
- Replies: 19
- Views: 2977
For what I am doing, DSL is bloatware. As for DOS, not a chance. Also, as I understand it, an emergency boot disk is only good if you have a floppy drive and if I had a floppy drive on this particular laptop, I wouldn't have this problem. I may try seeing if the hard drive from the Gateway will fit ...
- Mon 21 Jun 2010, 03:16
- Forum: Truly off-topic conversations
- Topic: Non-Puppy Linux Problem
- Replies: 19
- Views: 2977
Non-Puppy Linux Problem
I am attempting to install Basic Linux 3 on a Gateway Solo 2000. Problem is that it does not have a floppy drive nor do I have floppy drive that will work with it. I have tried burning the *.IMG and *.TGZ files to a CD-RW but to no avail. I want to use Basic Linux on this laptop as Puppy runs really...
- Sun 20 Jun 2010, 22:16
- Forum: Puppy Power
- Topic: Puppy saves the day......again
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1884
- Fri 18 Jun 2010, 05:18
- Forum: Security
- Topic: Paranoia for Beginners
- Replies: 247
- Views: 155310
- Fri 18 Jun 2010, 03:13
- Forum: Suggestions
- Topic: Suggestions for Forum Improvement
- Replies: 370
- Views: 327225
I have noticed, as I am sure other have, that there those times when the topic is about a Linux distro other than Puppy. Perhaps we can put a sub-forum in the Off-Topic area for other Linux Distros? While I wouldn't expect it to get a lot of use, it would certainly make it easier for people to ask q...
- Wed 16 Jun 2010, 03:17
- Forum: Misc
- Topic: Do you like Debian and Debian based distros?
- Replies: 16
- Views: 5993
- Sun 13 Jun 2010, 20:51
- Forum: Truly off-topic conversations
- Topic: A Linux Hater's Blog Page - Gave me a good laugh
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1310
Re: Spoof site?
Or is my irony-detector in dire need of recalibration? I seriously doubt it is just irony. I read through all the posts the user has and noticed a pattern of hatred of Linux and Linux users. Amongst other things, I feel he fails to recognize that sometimes bleeding edge software actually runs effic...
- Sun 13 Jun 2010, 06:10
- Forum: Misc
- Topic: Relics... (found an old Puppy 0.9.9 disk... ;)
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2853