Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

[tallboy]

I am still trying to find a new puppy for my old 32-bit P4 machines. They are in different locations, so a live CD is the preferred media.

I use a live CD with a remastered Lucid 5.2.8.7 now, but does anyone use a later Puppy live from a disc?

I mean, not having heard that it can be done, but being able to confirm that it works, because they actually do it themselves?

[april]

Precise 5.7.1 is 32 bit and I run it from a live disk with a save file on my hard drive if that helps.

Well I used to . now I'm using xenialpup64 7.5 ( but it's available as 32 bit also).
I got the iso ,cut the live disk and it runs great

In my experience whichever you choose to run with when asked to select your save file take the "ext4 file extension.

I used to get many breakages on the save file when running "ext2" as my choice and since starting on "ext4" I have not had one.

[a_salty_dogg]

Tahr 6.03 boots, loads and runs perfectly from CD on my ancient (2001) Dell P4 machine with 1500 MB RAM and 2GB swap-file partition on a USB flash-drive, with save-file to same USB flash-drive.
Never yet had a slow down (except if using Firefox for extended periods when pages become extremely sluggish, though Palemoon & Light 49 run speedily, smoothly, & fine always), lock-up, or browser crash.

Ditto Precise 5.71, which I've been booting from CD for years, including on my even older AMD PII non SSE2 enabled 512 MB RAM machine (though Wary 5.5 runs better on that tbh)!

[rockedge]

I have Tahr 6.0.5 running very well on an 2005 IBM ThinkPad T-42
no hard disk no battery....runs from a 16 gig USB stick

runs a streaming camera over a web server 24/7

[Mike Walsh]

Hi, tallboy.

While I don't run it full-time from LiveCD, I did experiment with Xenialpup 7081 (one of the slightly older 'betas') on ye anciente Dell lappie (P4, 1.5 GB DDR1) for a wee while before finally installing to the upgraded SSD as a 'frugal'. April's correct about the 32-bit version working with a P4; it's not blazing fast, but it is nicely functional.

It would certainly make a good 'daily driver' for you.


Mike.

[8Geee]

IMHO sailor enceladus' Slacko5.7.1-woofCE works fine on my Atom n270 (32bit nonPAE). ISO is still small (160Mb) and adheres to 01micko's original Slacko5.7. The new kernel 3.18.106 has updates for Meltdown/Spectre if thats any concern. /MHO

Regards
8Geee

[puppyluvr]

Hello,
Tahrpup 6.0.5 works well for me!@!

[kiramm]

x slacko 2.3.2 i use daily from cd
after 3 years using different pupps with all kind pet sfs
and only on all! kind of slacos suspend works on my laptop
but not over any screensaver:(!
so need to press susped button if u not love hear ventilator noise all day:(

hiher versions of x slacko not boot from cd my laptop:(
but with lick yess:))))
only bad that bbest of all linux programs maybe only of only 2 which winns over windows programs : nomacs mostly genereally not working on slacos:(((
otherwise slackos would be bbbbest of this great forum pop(a)yanum
nobody is perfect;(nobody understads linux politics;)))

if suspend works on ur pc with thar or u love house techno music of pc ventilator sound all day than onlyyy all 32bit thar puppies (max has only xtahr with great geofreys adrive only for xthar!) hAve mostttt and bbbbbest programs of forum working.

slackos gereally seems for me more difficult to destroy with trying different programs around;)

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=88846
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=851464
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=109279

my old latop i use daily u can see in link of my lokation

[tallboy]

Thank you for the suggestions, but both tahr and precise are not exactly new, and are nearing their end of support. I have been looking at a 32-bit xenial with a downgraded kernel, musher0's xenialPup-7.0.6 32-bits with kernel 4.1, but I understood that it was not set up for use with a live cd.

[ally]

http://archive.org/details/Puppy_Linux_pup_stardust

[tallboy]

Thanks, I know, I also just corrected the link in my thread above.
Also: Puppy Stardust 013

[april]

In my experience whichever you choose to run with when asked to select your save file take the "ext4" file extension.

I used to get many breakages on the save file when running "ext2" as my choice and since starting on "ext4" I have not had one.

I don't have any programming knowledge to back this up but I believe it caused a lot of problems with USB sticks that just doesn't happen to me now.

[mikeslr]

I had the same experience as april. But I went with Linux Ext3. I think at the time I had some Puppies which couldn't read Ext4. I also think at that time mikeb --who actually knows what he's doing and why-- pointed out that Ext2 was more prone to corruption.

mikesLr

[tallboy]

[nosystemdthanks]