Both puppy and DSL offer a full installation <span style="text-decoration: underline;">and</span> a frugal installation on many types of media. In a frugal install an <span style="text-decoration: underline;">image of the CD</span> 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 <span style="text-decoration: underline;">full installation</span>. It should install grub for you as part of the install.<br><br>here is a link to puppy manual.<br>http://www.puppylinux.org/manuals/puppy-40/english<br>and the page on installation.<br>http://www.puppylinux.org/manuals/puppy-40/english/how-install-puppy/full-installation<br><br>The mozilla webrowser is already on puppy and DSL. and yes, you can download specific editions of mozilla such as firefox or seamonkey
etc.<br><br>One note, In Puppy you must go through several steps to get and install debian packages:<br>http://www.puppylinux.org/manuals/puppy-40/english/how-install/deinstall-programs/debian-programs<br>while DSL can get and install them more directly using it's installer or upgrading to <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Synaptic package manager</span> (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.<br><br>here is a link to the DSL page.<br>http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/index.html<br><br><br><b><i>Gary Stibbins <ghostrider2x@gmail.com></i></b> wrote:<blockquote class="replbq" style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> <div dir="ltr">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.<br> 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.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 10:39 AM, c.a. weisheit <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:carl70448@yahoo.com">carl70448@yahoo.com</a>></span> wrote:<br> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">the club is now using PCLinux and Ubuntu in the lab. <span style="text-decoration: underline;">try these live cds out.</span> 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.<br> <br>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 <span style="text-decoration: underline;">huge</span> amount of free software.<br> <br>if your having problems with the install, bring the machine to the club, so we can prod and poke it.<br><br>by the way, does anyone know, how many debian packages are available now?<div> </div></blockquote></div>-- <br>Gary<br>ghostrider<br> </div> _______________________________________________<br>Newbies mailing list<br>Newbies@brlug.net<br>http://mail.brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/newbies_brlug.net<br></blockquote><br><p>