added some new information and some useful links today Aug 24.
Hope that additional info makes the howto more useful to you!

Actually, your compilation of mplayer seems to be very good tempestuous. On the whole, it works better for me than gxine in puppy 2.17.1. I wonder why it wasn't used instead of gxine in 2.17.1? The only "major" problem I have with it now (in 2.17.1) is that seamonkey in that version assume...

yes, sorry, MPlayer-1.0rc1 appears to be working fine with rm files afterall. I only have a dialup internet connection and the delay before the file started playing was much longer than with gxine, so I wrongly assumed mplayer wasn't working right. By luck, sometime later, I left mplayer running for...

I just installed the xine-extra-codecs1 package and I could view real media rm files no problem in gxine. My problem is that I can't view them in mplayer! I thought mplayer might share the same codecs but I just get a blank screen when I try to open the relevant real media file url. Anyone know how ...

I use puppy on an old Dell CPX latitude with 256 MB ram. On first boot from live CD I just said I wanted to use Xorg and selected 1024x758 24 bit colour and everything is fine at that resolution. Didn't have to tweak anything.

Hello ICPUG Following your earlier message, I actually tried yesterday to duplicate ruymbeke's work, but for DSL. Alas, I couldn't get it to work. Maybe I missed something or maybe the DSL boot kernel doesn't have the right support built into it. I also wish ruymbeke would take this on if he can. It...

I use puppy to share my dialup to the internet. I just have the following two lines in my /etc/rc.d/rc.local: iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o ppp0 -j MASQUERADE echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward When the system boots up the internet connection is automatically shared. Don't need to use the fi...

Sorry ICPUG, I missed that. It all works fine when Puppy frugal, DSL frugal, and Microsoft WIndows (XP) are all installed on the same FAT32 partition. It seems to work fine with Puppy frugal and Microsoft Windows are both installed on the same NTFS partition :-) Haven't tested that for long though. ...

HOWTO: Multi-Booting between Puppy, DSL and, Windows on FAT32 or NTFS using Grub for Dos [EDIT mar 2009: see also this more recent thread post: http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=288485#288485 ] NEW: Modified to include manual frugal install of puppy30x (refer to note 15 below, "I...