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racepres
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#136 Post by racepres »

Just acquired a Gateway solo 9100. PII 233, 256M RAM, No HDD.
Frugal installed [my first time] 214X.RC5, onto usb stick, Works really well!!, Haven't found anything non-functional yet, but, I cheat, using old orinoco pcmcia wireless card, for net. Just wish that this usb stick would let me put a swap onto it... probably will,I just can't do it... Yet.
This 214X thing is the Berries!!!
RP

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#137 Post by maddnessaxon »

I just recently acquired a Compac Presario C700 that has no working hard drive, and about the same time I had to turn of my internet and use the apartment one, to save some money. I knew the laptop had an atheros wireless, which has in the past caused problems, but when I stuck Puppy 4.3.1. on a dvd in, everything has just worked ever since. Found an old 2g USB stick that still works, reformatted it to superdisk, and now I have the laptop booting from the USB.

This has let me use a free computer to access free internet (well, I DO pay rent,) with a free OS. Freeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee and just when I needed it most.

Fan for life. :D

Gurglin
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Compaq Presario 14XL250

#138 Post by Gurglin »

This thread is a great idea. At your list you can add my Compaq Presario 14XL250, bought in year 2000. It has a Celeron 600MHz chip, 184M RAM + 8 RAM for the Video (64 original + 128 added), Trident Cyberblade video card, Chipset VIA PLE133.

On the internet it is possible to find some specs and some general workarounds with Linux, especially for avoiding problems with the monitor, that must be configured manually: vga=792, SVGA 1024x768 @ 70 Hz ; 50-70 Hz.

In other words, at boot when getting the Puppy Video Wizard screen choose Xorg, then at "monitor type" choose option C (h31.5-48-5v50-70 LCD Panel 1024x768) and then at "select video mode" choose either 1024x768x16 or 1024x768x24. Easy!

All Puppy OS installed so far (latest kernel of series 2.x, 3.x and 4.x) where almost perfect, but with some unsolved problems: the usage of the S-video plug and the installation of packages... and sometimes installed packages do not work (?!?!?).

I could not boot LuPu 5.0.0, but things might have improved with LuPu 5.0.1

One last thing: for turning it off and shut down it is necessary to add acpi=force at bootload grub string

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#139 Post by maxpro4u »

Compaq Armada 1700 running 4.3.1 here. Frugal install on 2nd partition dual-boot with w2k. Seems to work fine-it is a PII with 160mb ram. I wrote a post about it here http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=57419 I wonder if one of the earlier versions would run better. I mainly just use Opera for most things imap mail/browser/rss/newsgroups although I have installed firefox 3.6, thunderbird and did upgrade seamonkey. Will the latest opera 10.6 run on the older puppies?
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#140 Post by CoffeeBreak »

Hi,
I recently picked up a very cheap Toshiba 3490ct, it probably dates from about 2005. I now have a happy turbopup xtreme running on it with pcmcia wireless. My two biggest hurdles were not having a CD drive (it's too small) and not being able to boot from USB (it's too old). My solution was to pull out the hard drive, put it into a usb enclosure and do a hard install via another computer. Once I had one install (plus Grub) I reinstalled and it booted up first go. With usb up and running I've been able to load lots of different pups to try them out by dropping in the Initrd and Vmlinuz files and pointign grub to them. (I even tried kubuntu but it was asking too much of 128mb ram). My final choice is Turbopup xtreme which goes as well as I need to do text editing and surf the web. Everything I've tried seems to work straight out of the box.
Just for the record I almost threw out my ASUS wireless card because it only loaded when it felt like it and would drop my connection after an hour even when it did go then I saw a post here about using "pci=noacpi" (I'd already got "acpi=force" to get make the lappie poweroff with shutdown) and with that configuration it's loaded and held every time ever since. I'd love to say that was my skill but really I just tried it and got lucky.
BTW thanks to all the smart folks here, for me Puppy isn't an ideological alternative, it's the practical solution for resurrecting functional hardware that other software has left behind.

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#141 Post by mrreality13 »

hi all,
Toshiba satellite 2535cds running pup214.xrc5
p1@300 mhz mmx
96 megs ram(32+64)
60 gig hd
cd rom/1-1.1 usb/floppy
tried many many distros and only puppy runs otb on this oldie
tried over 20 puppy's on it and tuxxx's classic 214 runs awesome
some of the 4.0 based ones worked ok but they always had sound issues

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#142 Post by mrreality13 »

Woot scored a hell of a deal at a local thrift store

dell latitude d600
p3@750 mhz
384 ram(will prolly up this to 512 when i can)
10 gig hd-swaping in the 60 from my Toshiba satellite 2535cds
cdrom/1-2.0 usb
came with a dell usb wifi 1450 adapter-a/b/g

battery seems to run about a 1 hr running a video
just finished installing 5.1 runs great

it also has an s-vid out im a try to mess with

all for $45.00 usd
(plus grabbed an external usb cd drive for 5 bucks more can always use 1 of them)
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Compaq Core 2 Duo T7500

#143 Post by stalane »

Quriky 1.2 on a broken Compaq Core 2 Duo T7500 @ 2.2Ghx
2 Gig Ram
160 Gig HD
Full Install

(Originally VISTA Basic)

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The CPU fan is dead since someone dropped this machine before I inherited it. So I have to run it full time on a laptop fan stand thingy. After unzipping a big file or playing multimedia I get a temperature warning...

So I then move the fan directly under the CPU. The result is off balance so I MUST use a very cold, large Bintang Beer as a counterweight.

Works Perfectly!

Moral support in the background is Oke and she says "Hi"

:D

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Re: Compaq Core 2 Duo T7500

#144 Post by Béèm »

stalane wrote:Quriky 1.2 on a broken Compaq Core 2 Duo T7500 @ 2.2Ghx
2 Gig Ram
160 Gig HD
Full Install

(Originally VISTA Basic)


The CPU fan is dead since someone dropped this machine before I inherited it. So I have to run it full time on a laptop fan stand thingy. After unzipping a big file or playing multimedia I get a temperature warning...

So I then move the fan directly under the CPU. The result is off balance so I MUST use a very cold, large Bintang Beer as a counterweight.

Works Perfectly!

Moral support in the background is Oke and she says "Hi"

:D
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#145 Post by ken geometrics »

davesurrey wrote:1. Advent 9315 (also known as Advent 3.
...

Asus eee 701 netbook.

upgraded to 2GB ram
4GB SSD
Tried everything but best was Puppy Dingo Plus .
Not used any more.


I still use mine. I take my eepc with puppy 431 with me when
I travel.

I use the eepc to (slowly) bring up open office and edit documents etc.

I have 2 Keyspan USB to RS-232 converters that work just fine with it letting me do RS-232 serial with something that almost fits in my pocket.

I have a nearly identical system on an IBM Thinkpad. On the thinkpad, I made a small partition and did a full install into it. grub gives me the choice of using the puppy-431 or suffering through the XP it cam with.

Not a laptop but: I also have the same system set up on my home desk top. That is what I am using now. All three machines look the same to me. No relearning when I change machines.

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#146 Post by Dave_B »

I'm running a full disk install of Puppy 5.01 (upgraded recently from 4.31) on an HP 500 Omnibook.
The laptop has a 750Mhz P3, 512M of ram and a 20 Gb hard drive.

I am connected to the internet via the onboard wireless and surfing is fine with Opera. Videos are jerky with the other browsers.

I have 3 other Linux distros on other machines, but I prefer to use this Puppy powered dinosaur.

Dave

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#147 Post by Sanity Clause »

I'm running Lucid in a nearly dead Compaq Presario 2500; 256 M ram and a 80G HD thats died. Bought it 2003 and have fought it ever since.

Running the onboard 10/100 nic and have had no problems running Firefox or Puppy's browser.

So far everything in Lucid is working well and I would sing its praises to the world!

Having said that, can I have a newer laptop for Christmas, pleeeeeze?

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Puppy on laptop

#148 Post by agoodegg »

I'm running pup501 from a USB stick

on an ACER Aspire 1642WLMi that has windows xp(he) and pclinuxos .

I had a bit of trouble gating the WIFI to work,
but it now works as you can see javascript:emoticon(':!:')

regards all Egg

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#149 Post by steve_s »

Latest work: KDPup lite from forum member dejan555, booting from a livecd and using an external usb flash drive that has a save file and needed sfs files.

No internal hard drive at all.

HP Pavilion N5470.

Took wireless card out of another laptop and put it in here...that was fun (not!).

Sound card needs to be started every time, so wrote a script that does it at startup...here it is for future reference:

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#!/bin/bash
/etc/init.d/alsa stop
modprobe snd-maestro3
/etc/init.d/alsa start
If the version of Puppy you are using doesn't have /root/Startup/ and you want to run something at startup put it in /etc/init.d/ folder.

Won't power off: just had to apply this because this version of puppy wouldn't turn off, just shut down system but not turn off. This fixed that.

Also, using the livecd per this version would always ask me to take out the livecd and hit enter. I asked dejan what to do and he sayed to comment out this part of /etc/rc.d/rc.shutdown and now it doesn't ask me that anymore:

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# eject all 
if [ "$DETECTEDCDS" ]; then 
  echo -n "Ejecting CD's..." >/dev/console 
  for ONEDRV in $DETECTEDCDS; do 
   if eject /dev/$ONEDRV ;then 
      echo -n "Remove the medium, then press [Enter]: " >/dev/console 
      read REP 
      eject -t /dev/$ONEDRV 
   fi 
  done 
fi 
#the end#

Other than an occasionally twitchy mouse-finger pad, this laptop looks and runs great.
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I've Ubuntu somewhere but I prefer Puppy Linux; shhhh

#150 Post by benny7440 »

...a live cd. Thanks to the fact it has 528MB of RAM it runs very ok.
Before having this notebook I was using an old laptop (eBuddy from Earthwalk with just 128MB of RAM with a frugal PL 421 installation & it was behaving very well, too).
Now, I don't know if this's the right place to put this but I'm having a new problem with PL 431. I wanted & tried to install it in an SD Card (128MB - TransFlash) in order to stop booting up with the live cd all the time &, more important than that, to make some configurations persistent: i.e. Bookmarks, Internet Connections Configuratrions, some docs, etc..
As far as I can tell all the necessary files are installed but this notebook refuses to boot, it does the same thing with a DSL in a flash drive that's working in other machines (eBuddy). I already checked that the BIOS is configurable to permit a usb boot. I've a little interface from Motorola to put in the SD Card & connect to a computer via a usb port: tried that to with the same result (I mean to boot via usb & not to install when it's in the said interface).
I noticed that the PET installer gives some alternatives but I think I exhausted the relevant ones except for the least recommended one because I'm digging for some extra info before I do commit myself with the last alternative.
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Re: I've Ubuntu somewhere but I prefer Puppy Linux; shhhh

#151 Post by steve_s »

benny7440 wrote:...a live cd. Thanks to the fact it has 528MB of RAM it runs very ok.
Before having this notebook I was using an old laptop (eBuddy from Earthwalk with just 128MB of RAM with a frugal PL 421 installation & it was behaving very well, too).
Now, I don't know if this's the right place to put this but I'm having a new problem with PL 431. I wanted & tried to install it in an SD Card (128MB - TransFlash) in order to stop booting up with the live cd all the time &, more important than that, to make some configurations persistent: i.e. Bookmarks, Internet Connections Configuratrions, some docs, etc..
As far as I can tell all the necessary files are installed but this notebook refuses to boot, it does the same thing with a DSL in a flash drive that's working in other machines (eBuddy). I already checked that the BIOS is configurable to permit a usb boot. I've a little interface from Motorola to put in the SD Card & connect to a computer via a usb port: tried that to with the same result (I mean to boot via usb & not to install when it's in the said interface).
I noticed that the PET installer gives some alternatives but I think I exhausted the relevant ones except for the least recommended one because I'm digging for some extra info before I do commit myself with the last alternative.
Keep developing one of the best OS available to all in the space required by WIN98 twelve years ago: REMARKABLE!
Note: People that I tell this & other things concerning Puppy Linux make me promise to show them because they don't beleive it.
Hey, Benny! What exactly does it do when you try to boot it? Does it boot grub then give an error or just say operating system not found, or what?

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Work in progress

#152 Post by esl »

As a work in progress I got my old Thinkpad 380Z running suprisingly well (minus network) from the 5.01 live CD, specs as below:

Processor Pentium II (Deschutes)
Memory 92MB (42MB used)
Operating System Puppy Linux 0.50
All hardware figured out pretty much automatically.
Sound system need some trivial manual intervention.

Rolled back to Puppy 4.3.1 and that gets the Netgear configured seemingly OK, recognised by my router OK, but still no internet connection - so temporarily stumped and can't figure it out...

George

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#153 Post by Aitch »

George

see my reply in this thread, you may have a DNS problem, especially if using Virgin ISP

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=50515

HTH

Aitch :)

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#154 Post by rokytnji »

Been awhile since I have posted what works on this thread. I have sold some of the other Laptops I have previously posted and purchased a couple of Netbooks with the percentage of funds made .

Asus EEEPC 701SD.
8gig internal SSD (AntiX 8.5 Full iso/Full Install)
1 gig of ram
Puppeee 4.4 Beta. Frugal install on 4 gig external SD Flash card.

Asus EEEPC 900
4gig SSD primary/ 16 gig secondary (AntiX 8.5 full iso/ full install. / on 4 gig SSD. /home on 16 gig secondary SSD)
2gig of ram.
Puppeee 4.3.7 Beta. Frugal install on 4 gig Externall SD Flash Card.

Both Netbooks have Camera,Sound including Mic, Hotkeys, Flash, Media Players, Skype, working out of the box using Puppeee. I have documented this in Puppeee threads also.
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#155 Post by ZekeMenuar »

I'm running Lucid Puppy 5.1.1 on a 4gb SanDisk Traveler flash drive.
I have Puppy setup to load into RAM.

My laptop is a Enpower EN660 aka MSI PR600.
Enpower was the store brand of PC Club before they went under.

Intel Core 2 Duo T7100
Intel 965 onboard graphics
4GB RAM
15.4" monitor
Intel PRO Wireless 4965

Installed and runs with no drama.
Puppy is my preferred OS when running the laptop only.

Still working on solutions for running an extended desktop with the 15.4" laptop monitor and a 19" external monitor.

As soon as I can I hope to install Puppy along side Windoze 7 in a dual-boot.

The flash drive also works on my wife's similar Enpower laptop.
It has a Intel T5400 chip, NVidia graphics and 2gb RAM. and has the same MSI chassis.

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