Hi I'm having trouble installing Puppy 4.31, 5.1 or 5.25 on and Dell Inspiron 8000 Laptop,P3 700mhz processor 256mb ram and 10gb hard drive. I'm installing Puppy directly onto the hard drive as this laptop can not easily boot from a flash drive and I wanted a smaller Linux system like Puppy that would be faster and take up less space than a larger Linux OS. The biggest challenge appears to be the ATi Rage Mobile 32mb video card. if is some what difficult to configure, but I've managed to get it working at only one resolution that being 1400 x 1050. but after the install upon rebooting as xorg is installed it needs to be reconfigured, which leads to a continuous loop of command line errors. this is true with 4.31 through 5.25. Also another major problem is even if Puppy is booted and run from a CD, after I get it configured with video and wifi, when any of the Internet Browsers are being installed the OS locks up. Without installing a Internet browser, if the laptop is left unoccupied for more than say 15 minutes the desktop locks up. In either case the only thing that might respond is several Ctrl-Alt Dels that will lead to shutdown, but this is intermittent as well. I believe that most of this stems from the difficulty in the configuration of the ATi Rage Mobile Video Card, although I'm not really certain that is the case. The laptop had difficulty installing Mandriva 2010.2, due to the ATi Rage Mobile video card, but that was a bit easier with Mandriva and after that the default Firefox browser worked well and the Mandriva OS was able to shutdown and reboot alright. I much prefer Puppy as the OS for this laptop as it is sleeker and faster, especially fo this older laptop... Any help with these issues above would be greatly appreciated.
Tony, aka acantony
Install puppy 5.25 on Dell Inspiron 8000 with ATi rage mobil
To help need to talk about one version of Puppy only.
What type install of Puppy did you do.
Full install?
Frugal install?
Give detailed info what you did. How it was installed can affect operation.
How is hard drive partitioned? Location of Puppy on hard drive? ...etc
ATI support in Puppy is a little weak, but that is not Puppy. ATI does not provide much support for Linux operating systems. All versions of Puppy come with a generic video driver that will work on anything.
What type install of Puppy did you do.
Full install?
Frugal install?
Give detailed info what you did. How it was installed can affect operation.
How is hard drive partitioned? Location of Puppy on hard drive? ...etc
ATI support in Puppy is a little weak, but that is not Puppy. ATI does not provide much support for Linux operating systems. All versions of Puppy come with a generic video driver that will work on anything.
I used a Inspiron 8000 until it finally died a few weeks ago.
Didn't really have problems with mobility rage.
I used 1024x768 res.
Puppy 4.12 ran the best and coolest on that machine.
It runs quite hot normally; cleaning the inside and repotting
the cpu may help.
Check that the cmos "bios" battery is still good.
Many of the Lupu-Luci versions took a lot of video experimenting
while under development.
All the 4.xx series worked fine;
as did Wary on that machine.
Didn't really have problems with mobility rage.
I used 1024x768 res.
Puppy 4.12 ran the best and coolest on that machine.
It runs quite hot normally; cleaning the inside and repotting
the cpu may help.
Check that the cmos "bios" battery is still good.
Many of the Lupu-Luci versions took a lot of video experimenting
while under development.
All the 4.xx series worked fine;
as did Wary on that machine.
Inspiron 700m, Pent.M 1.6Ghz, 1Gb ram.
Msi Wind U100, N270 1.6>2.0Ghz, 1.5Gb ram.
Eeepc 8g 701, 900Mhz, 1Gb ram.
Full installs
First off, Thanks to both of you for your quick replies, they are appreciated.
I've tried full installs of 4.31, 5.01 and 5.25, using a 2gb Journalised FS: ext2 partition on a 10gb hard drive. I need to install winxp on the other 8gbs of the hard drive, with a NTFS partition, but I have not done so yet as I want to get a good Linux OS on there working first. I did Install Mandriva 2010.2 and after getting the video to work on that, it took a little bit of playing with settings as you suggested, and as it did for Puppy, Mandriva does work and does not crash, but it is bloated and slow for this older computer, at least to my liking. Puppy has always been very good, but it does not like this computer or the ATi Rage Mobile card, as stated if I can get the video configured in Puppy, but it locks up especially after tring to install any of the Web Browsers when running from the cd or if installed to the hard drive after rebooting it goes into this error loop as xorg is trying to install. It seems to do the very same thing in all three versions of Puppy Install as stated above...
acantony
I've tried full installs of 4.31, 5.01 and 5.25, using a 2gb Journalised FS: ext2 partition on a 10gb hard drive. I need to install winxp on the other 8gbs of the hard drive, with a NTFS partition, but I have not done so yet as I want to get a good Linux OS on there working first. I did Install Mandriva 2010.2 and after getting the video to work on that, it took a little bit of playing with settings as you suggested, and as it did for Puppy, Mandriva does work and does not crash, but it is bloated and slow for this older computer, at least to my liking. Puppy has always been very good, but it does not like this computer or the ATi Rage Mobile card, as stated if I can get the video configured in Puppy, but it locks up especially after tring to install any of the Web Browsers when running from the cd or if installed to the hard drive after rebooting it goes into this error loop as xorg is trying to install. It seems to do the very same thing in all three versions of Puppy Install as stated above...
acantony
Try Puppy 4.12-k2.6.25.16.
If it won't run that, you have serious hardware problems.
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/dis ... uppylinux/
Instructions for full install:
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 782#201565
If it won't run that, you have serious hardware problems.
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/dis ... uppylinux/
Instructions for full install:
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 782#201565
Inspiron 700m, Pent.M 1.6Ghz, 1Gb ram.
Msi Wind U100, N270 1.6>2.0Ghz, 1.5Gb ram.
Eeepc 8g 701, 900Mhz, 1Gb ram.
Full installs