Posted: Tue 05 May 2009, 06:48
vg1,
I feel more comfortable knowing your results are consistent with mine. I figure it takes at least two people to get repeatable results before something can be declared a success.
WhoDo,
I'm pretty happy with this latest small change. I'm still testing and haven't broke it yet.
This was a good exercise for me, because it gave me some incentive to re-acquaint myself with GRUB. I'm beginning to see why so many people prefer GRUB over alternative boot loaders. The DOS version is good for a beginner. It contains a very helpful menu.lst template that was easy to modify for these tests. Besides, when all else fails, it can drop back to DOS. Then I can go back to my old standby programs to figure out what is going on (I still have my floppy distros of Xtree and Norton Utilities in the garage).
This testing session also gave me incentive to take Puppy Version 4.2 out for a test drive. I had been using V4.12 up until now. The newer versions always bring something new and refreshing. Version 4.2 didn't disappoint.
I'm also getting more familiar with using Linux at the command prompt level, so when the GUI doesn't load I don't panic so much now. I'm not sure if it will ever replace DOS. But then again, I eventually weaned myself off of CP/M, so maybe there is some hope.
I feel more comfortable knowing your results are consistent with mine. I figure it takes at least two people to get repeatable results before something can be declared a success.
WhoDo,
I'm pretty happy with this latest small change. I'm still testing and haven't broke it yet.
This was a good exercise for me, because it gave me some incentive to re-acquaint myself with GRUB. I'm beginning to see why so many people prefer GRUB over alternative boot loaders. The DOS version is good for a beginner. It contains a very helpful menu.lst template that was easy to modify for these tests. Besides, when all else fails, it can drop back to DOS. Then I can go back to my old standby programs to figure out what is going on (I still have my floppy distros of Xtree and Norton Utilities in the garage).
This testing session also gave me incentive to take Puppy Version 4.2 out for a test drive. I had been using V4.12 up until now. The newer versions always bring something new and refreshing. Version 4.2 didn't disappoint.
I'm also getting more familiar with using Linux at the command prompt level, so when the GUI doesn't load I don't panic so much now. I'm not sure if it will ever replace DOS. But then again, I eventually weaned myself off of CP/M, so maybe there is some hope.