I went for puppy (especially Wary) as it appeared to be compact - and the old hardware aspect appealed (even though the machine I tested it on is actually fairly powerful). I'm sure I'll try several other disttros in due course. I actually want something current to run on the tiny Asus netbook, to replace the original Xandros (which I'm guessing isn't supported anymore). Ideally, though, I want some lightweight server software. I've got a copy of the server edition of ubuntu, but I've no idea if the Asus is fast/spacious enough to run it happily.
There seems to be a menu option in Puppy to create a boot USB stick - but it wipes everything else off the stick,and I didn't have a spare empty one with me earlier. I'll try again tomorrow :-)
David
________________________________________ From: manchester-bounces@lists.fsfe.org [manchester-bounces@lists.fsfe.org] on behalf of Sam Tuke [samtuke@fsfe.org] Sent: 05 March 2012 17:45 To: manchester@lists.fsfe.org Subject: Re: [FSFE-Manc] Live CD
On Mon, 2012-03-05 at 16:34 +0000, D.Bolton U0970268 wrote:
Just booted a (normally) XP desktop machine with a Linux Live CD - now running Wary Puppy 5.2.2 & seamonkey.
Congrats, Puppy is brilliant for old machines, so long as you don't mind doing things their way.
Next step is to sort out how to run it form a USB stick.....
I've never tried to do that, but often been curious. Let us know how you get on. Is a chroot involved?
Sam.
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