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Hello, I'm running OS 4 Mini on my Dual Core ThinkPad Z61 laptop. So far everything runs great. Wireless detected and runs well. Question, When firefox and Opera wants to upgrade to version 11 do I run the web update or is there another way to upgrade the browsers?

Hi John,

Downloaded this yesterday and am using it now. It's good to be able to use up to date browsers such as Seamonkey 2.8 on a 4.2 series Puppy. Thanks for a good job of work.

Cheers,

CP .

Hello jamalexa,
In Firefox if you click "Help" to check the version installed, Firefox will update itself to firefox 11 easy! Opera is another story, I had trouble with later versions so a user would have to manually install a later version of Opera themselves.

Hello Every One:
Downloaded Legacy OS-4 yesturday, again very impressive work done by John. Congr8s to U.
Want to discuss one issue, karamba side bar is not starting from the menu, also when I typed "karamba" in terminal it shows the following error:
(I m posting a screenshot, tried on 02 different systems but the result is same).
Any Idea ????????

umair wrote:Hello Every One:
Downloaded Legacy OS-4 yesturday, again very impressive work done by John. Congr8s to U.
Want to discuss one issue, karamba side bar is not starting from the menu, also when I typed "karamba" in terminal it shows the following error:
(I m posting a screenshot, tried on 02 different systems but the result is same).
Any Idea ????????

The issue has been solved.
I checked the md5sum, which not matched though iso was not downloaded correctly. So downloaded again from the softpedia. checked the md5sum. This time, md5sum matched . Now everything is working fine alongwith karamba.
Hope this will helps someone.
Regards
UMAIR

umair, don't scare me like that! LOL! this problem never arose in testing. I was looking at why this may have happened, So glad to hear it was a bad download!

john biles wrote:umair, don't scare me like that! LOL! this problem never arose in testing. I was looking at why this may have happened, So glad to hear it was a bad download!

John, I was also shocked as tested on more thn 3 different PCs.. The fault was in ISO not in Legacy OS-4 .
Learnt a new thing, Must check md5sum after downloading ISO
Thnx
UMAIR

Just installed to a 2gb usb flash .

sorry, double post.

Polished, as usual. Well done again, John!
For the record, now that Skype belongs to Beelzebub, perhaps it's time to decamp to PSIP, especially as smokey has given us such a detailed exposition of its use (http://www.smokey01.com/help/psip/psip-help.html?

So, is this the thread if you want/need support for Legacy OS4?

I'm having a buggar of a time getting 4 mini to boot on any of my machines. Did I get a bad iso? I get the splash screen and then it goes to copy to ram etc then when done it gives kernel panic message and then I have to dirty shutdown the machine....any ideas? I'm dying to try it....

Pentium III 800Mhz Processor with 256Mb’s of Ram

Ah! Getting KP on an 1800AMD with 384Mb mem. - "out of memory: no process....etc"

Sage wrote:

Pentium III 800Mhz Processor with 256Mb’s of Ram

Ah! Getting KP on an 1800AMD with 384Mb mem. - "out of memory: no process....etc"

Live pfix=ram on one of my old P3's. Notice the ram and swap usage at idle in the screenshot.
Probably run fine on a box with 256 Mb of ram once installed but it's pretty large when loading into ram.

-Computer-
Processor : Pentium III (Coppermine)
Memory : 514MB (294MB used)
Operating System : Puppy Linux 0.42
User Name : root (root)
Date/Time : Fri 23 Mar 2012 02:23:02 PM GMT-8
-Display-
Resolution : 1024x768 pixels
OpenGL Renderer : Unknown
X11 Vendor : The X.Org Foundation
-Multimedia-
Audio Adapter : ICH - Intel 82801BA-ICH2

-Version-
Kernel : Linux 2.6.25.16 (i686)
Compiled : #1 Tue Aug 26 10:45:53 GMT-8 2008
C Library : GNU C Library version 2.6.1 (stable)
Default C Compiler : Unknown

I thought John usually advocated full installs for his TeenPup and Legacy OS series.....or am i mistaken?

Seems logical to me, especially as older machines often don't have a great deal of RAM and the iso isn't as small as the standard Puppys....i wouldn't bother trying to make a frugal, horses for courses..

You made it to Distrowatch.

http://distrowatch.com/?newsid=07170

Chris.

John usually advocated full install

Yes, of course, but how to get there?! I have my own subterfuges to achieve that, but John might need to edit his claim and advice. Invariably, I have an HD connected, which has swap space. Purely by chance, this was not the case on one test machine. Best advice for newcomers is to do a FULL on another s-o-t-a machine and transfer the disk. Saves a lot of time, as the install is preserved even if the old banger doesn't run with it.

Hit the top 10 on Distrowatch.....

Oh dear! Gave it some swap space, but the initial booting didn't seem to look/find/use it. KP after switch-root, not sync-ing, etc. This can be a major issue on old kit that it is designed to use, and almost (but not quite!) the death knell for old laptops, for which additional memory may not be available and/or insertable. In all these instances, it will be necessary to install remotely on modern HW, hardly meeting the prime directive? Some folks have difficulty mounting 2.5" IDE drives into new machines on account of needing an adapter, either 40w to 44w IDE or IDE-to-SATA. No idea what options are for jiggling with the boot up coding? if any...

I've already successfully booted Legacy OS4 Mini on several machines, so I grabbed an old Windows 98 box off the shelf. 384 Mb of ram.... no swap.

Default boot, just hitting "enter" .... kernel panic.
Booting pfix=no ram ....... kernel panic.
Booting pfix=nocopy ..... kernel panic.

Running the latest Slacko live so no hardware issues.

-Computer-
Processor : Celeron (Mendocino)
Memory : 384MB (137MB used)

-Version-
Kernel : Linux 3.1.10-slacko_4gA (i686)
Compiled : #1 SMP Tue Mar 13 14:58:11 EST 2012

-Processor-
Name : Celeron (Mendocino)
Family, model, stepping : 6, 6, 5 (Pentium II/Pentium II Xeon/Celeron)
Vendor : Intel
-Configuration-
Cache Size : 128kb
Frequency : 434.24MHz
BogoMIPS : 868.66
Byte Order : Little Endian

Might need to reconsider those minimum specs.

Thanks for that confirmation, James. Just wondering: Celeron & Duron are low on cache. Needs further investigating!