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Aitch · Joined: 04 Apr 2007 Posts: 6825 Location: Chatham, Kent, UK

Hey Guys, I think I know what Don's problem with the download was.....

I have Noscript on Firefox, and get the same result as Don, unless I click 'temporarily allow this page' - so it's either Flash or Java missing/turned off, AFAIK

Aitch Smile

don922 · Posted: Sun 19 Sep 2010, 09:54 Post subject: A little progress -- Hurrah!!!

john biles, Roy, & Aitch:

Thank you for your help I can now access the MediaFire site and get a download if I allow MediaFire in NoScript. Part of the problem I was having is because I use the FirePup browser -- it's fast, but it's a little outdated.

I can now run ProZilla other than I can't seem to get a userame or password to work right. I don't understand "Hostname -- localhost Port -- 3128" which are pre-entered in the Preference Panel for Proxies. Failure to get this right eliminates the www.meownplanet download site.

So far getting this huge download has been like herding cats.

john biles · Joined: 17 Sep 2006 Posts: 1323 Location: Australia

Hello don922,
I tried to see if anyone else is hosting Legacy OS and found this dodgy looking Russian site hosting Legacy OS may be you can also do a search to find new download links.

Link: http://www.freshwap.net/applications/294499-legacy-os-2010-i386.html

Sylvander · Posted: Sun 19 Sep 2010, 11:23 Post subject:

WOT rates that site as "Excellent". Very Happy

smokey01 · Joined: 30 Dec 2006 Posts: 1604 Location: South Australia

http://www.smokey01.com/puplets/legacyos.iso

john biles · Joined: 17 Sep 2006 Posts: 1323 Location: Australia

Hello Sylvander,
WOT? are you saying the site is good or bad?

Hello smokey01,
Thank you for hosting! Maybe don922 can finally download an iso that matches the md5sum.

James C · Joined: 26 Mar 2009 Posts: 4742 Location: Kentucky

WOT is Web of Trust, a browser addon that rates and reviews websites.
www.mywot.com

According to the ratings and reviews the site is safe.

bodbozzle · Posted: Sun 19 Sep 2010, 21:42 Post subject:

edited

It is booting!
AMD Athlon XP

john biles · Joined: 17 Sep 2006 Posts: 1323 Location: Australia

Hello bodbozzle,
What make and model of PC / Laptop do you own and how old is it?
Do you know the make and model of the CD / DVD Drive installed?
With over 7000 downloads there's been few complaints of booting problems.

don922

I have downloaded Legacy OS one & a piece more times from SoftPedia (the partial download failed about 3/4 way through and would not resume). This was downloaded with ProZilla, but the md5sum failed on the complete download.

I have downloaded Legacy OS one time from the Smokie01 website with pwget and the md5sum failed. I had to use pwget because I can not get ProZilla to work with the required username and password.

I couldn't find where to download (free) on the freshwap website. It may have a good rating -- it seems flacky to me.

Meanwhile, I was able to download and got good md5sums on Puppy214X-RC5.iso and minipup2.02.iso as a test to determine if I could sucessfully download an iso.

I think the trouble I am having with Legacy OS must be due to it's size.

bodbozzle · Posted: Mon 20 Sep 2010, 01:49 Post subject:

Hello John,
Legacy OS booted on an other PC.
It looks beautiful and it takes more time to explore.
Sorry for causing confusion.
I tried booting Legacy OS on an eee 1000H although it was not intended for that.
(eee and external usb drive)
Thanks a lot!

Lobster · Posted: Mon 20 Sep 2010, 03:24 Post subject:

booted OK on my Athlon 64 dual processor
It was slow to boot as it is large (seemed 2-3 minutes boot)
and maybe that could be fixed by using Puppy pfix=noram
during boot (if available)

Seems a lot to explore including tutorials and documentation
and a host of programs Cool

gnomic · Joined: 20 Aug 2010 Posts: 74

Legacy ran on a couple of generic desktop PCs

P4 1.6 GHz w/ 768 MB RAM and a Matrox G550 video card.

Celeron D 2.8 GHz, AOpen mobo, 1.5 G RAM, nvidia 64MB GeForce 4 MX440.

On both machines it booted into RAM, quite snappily on the Celeron, but took a while on the P4.

Also tried on a ThinkPad Z60m with i915, 1.86 GHZ Pentium M, 1G RAM. This booted but took 5 minutes + I think, didn't time it. Will try again to give a more precise timing. This machine has a slightly oddball arrangement wrt the hard drive iirc, the mobo is sata but the disk is plain old ide with some kind of adapter between them.

breversa · Joined: 30 Sep 2010 Posts: 12

G'day John Biles/Van Gaans !

First of all, let me thank you for your work on Legacy OS and your motivation for doing it, as I LOVE using Linux to give a second life to old hardware (after all, Earth does NOT ONLY belong to the one(s) who pay(s) the bills !). Smile

I tried Legacy OS 2010 on a +/- year 2000 Toshiba Satellite Pro 4600 laptop (Pentium III 700MHz, 512MB RAM, 40GB HDD), and while it DOES BOOT, it hangs after the Xorg/Xvesa graphics server choice. Sad

I've opened a topic on that subject here : http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=60425.

I also gave it a try on a more recent Toshiba Tecra A4 (Pentium M 740 1.73GHz, 1024 MB RAM, 80GB HDD), and it boots and runs flawlessly. Smile

gnomic · Joined: 20 Aug 2010 Posts: 74

Just updating last post about the ThinkPad Z60m, keeping an eye on the time it took 6 minutes or more to get a desktop. Slowest of the machines I have tried for some reason, 1.86 GHZ and 1G RAM so not challenged for CPU or memory.