Which Puppy for old pc

[ggaatos]

Good morning to all
I use for more than a year now , pyppy 4.3.1 as a live CD in my old Toshiba Satellite 2800-100 with 650 Mhz Mobile Celeron , 192 Mb ram , 5 Gb HDD , and a PCMCIA DLink Air Plus G - DWL-G630 wifi card.Everything is OK . In that pc there is also Win 2000. Because I want to say goodbay to Win 2000 and keep only Puppy , I wonder , If 4.3.1 is OK or I have to choose something more fresh ?
Second if it worth to do a hard disk installation ( frugal or full ) . Is there pros against Live CD ?And finally I want to know in case I have to erase win2000 , how sould I do it , I have to follow any steps to be the empty pc OK for Puppy or just follow the one click installer? My setting of puppy will be lost ?

Thank you in advance.

[ardvark]

Hi...

With your hardware, my suggestion would be to keep the Puppy you have and reclaim the space that Windows 2000 takes with Gparted, unless you want to keep any restore partitions.

Regards...

[nic007]

Puppy 412 will run even better on that setup. Do a frugal install on the HDD. Newer puppies not to be recommended in your case.

[rokytnji]

A prettier 4.31

http://macpup.org/opera2.php


I ran LightHouse 5 build 485 on mine


http://i48.tinypic.com/33w14eb.jpg

But mine has 256MB of ram. I sold that laptop.

Puppy 412 will run even better on that setup.

Cruise down the aisle and throw a few in the shopping cart.
Give em a whirl.

http://412collection.co.uk/

My Fav for a 4.12 Puppy to run is

http://macpup.org/macpup412.php
Use Link3. Link 1 seems dead.

I prefer to do full installs now on older gear but that is my preferences speaking.
I run a Slack0 5.6 full install on a Atom Netbook with 512MB of ram.

[EdD]

4.12 sounds like a good choice for that machine. Open the puppy universal installer and it will give you the option of running GParted to repartition your drive to remove Win2000 and install puppy. Creating a swap partition of 512mb or better is also a good idea. I do full installs on my older hardware.

Hope it all goes well. Report back and let us know how it turns out.

[as77]

Working on an old laptop I always check if adding RAM is possible.
SODIMM's are pretty cheap on eBay.

And yes, Puppies anyway have been reasonably fast on my Celeron and Pentium laptops, even at clock rates below 1½ GHz

[Colonel Panic]

Puppy 412 will run even better on that setup. Do a frugal install on the HDD. Newer puppies not to be recommended in your case.

Yes, I'd recommend Boxpup 412 in particular (which I sometimes use). It uses Opera 9.63 as its main browser and Openbox as its window manager.

There's also a Lighthouse based on 412, though I wasn't able to get it to boot the last time I tried it (probably just my machine).

[ggaatos]

Thanx everybody for answers.I finally made my decision and said goodby to win2000 and wellcome puppy 4.3.1 with full installation using some very detail instructions.Th only isue was that ,because I had a save file , I could not manage to walk in the GParted move because the partition was in use and could not be unmount for repartition the HDD.So I start from the first installation of LiveCD and loose all my preveous settings ( wifi , Greek keybord layout .....)But everything went allright .Now I try to set mail and web browser to be more puppy friendly. ( I will try to atach the instractions ) Thank you all again.javascript:emoticon(':D')

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[ardvark]

Thanx everybody for answers.I finally made my decision and said goodby to win2000 and wellcome puppy 4.3.1 with full installation using some very detail instructions.

You're welcome, I'm glad you got it worked out.

Regards...