[brlug-newbies] Linksys ethernet board question

[c.a. weisheit]

Both puppy and DSL offer a full installation and a frugal installation on many types of media. In a frugal install an image of the CD is installed on a drive and it boots to it. These installs are useful when you need to save space or install on a FAT (windows) partition, but in your case there is no advantage and some added problems in this type of install. Just use the built in puppy installer to do the full installation. It should install grub for you as part of the install.

here is a link to puppy manual.
http://www.puppylinux.org/manuals/puppy-40/english
and the page on installation.
http://www.puppylinux.org/manuals/puppy-40/english/how-install-puppy/full-installation

The mozilla webrowser is already on puppy and DSL. and yes, you can download specific editions of mozilla such as firefox or seamonkey etc.

One note, In Puppy you must go through several steps to get and install debian packages:
http://www.puppylinux.org/manuals/puppy-40/english/how-install/deinstall-programs/debian-programs
while DSL can get and install them more directly using it's installer or upgrading to Synaptic package manager (my favorite) this may be faster when dealing with packages that have lots of dependencies(drivers and lib files needed by program) Try them both out.

here is a link to the DSL page.
http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/index.html


Gary Stibbins <ghostrider2x at gmail.com> wrote: I noticed on Puppy Linux,right clicking here and there,that there was   a grub install,and under that was a simple install or a regular install.The simple install,the way I understand it,is it automatically installs and the other 1 is for people who know what they doing. Now if you can get Debian packages for Puppy,I assume you can also run other things like Firefox.I also have an external HP CDR-RW with fairly descent speed I'd like to see how much trouble I'll have getting it to work.
 It's getting where I hate dealing with Windows so taking it off would be great.Leavesme more room to learn to work with the Debian packages.

On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 10:39 AM, c.a. weisheit <carl70448 at yahoo.com> wrote:
 the club is now using PCLinux and Ubuntu in the lab. try these live cds out. With lots of us using these it will be easier to find someone who can help you with problems along the way. However I suspect, they may run a little slow on your system.
 
DSL and Puppy Linux are great choices also. I have installed them on machines as slow as 133 Mhz 64 mb ram with good results. Due to changes in the latest edition of Puppy, both disros can now get debian packages, which gives you access to a huge amount of free software.
 
if your having problems with the install, bring the machine to the club, so we can prod and poke it.

by the way, does anyone know, how many debian packages are available now?         

-- 
Gary
ghostrider
 
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