Success! Now running off a 1gb USB stick. Thanks Anna - I needed somewhere to copy the original puppy .iso file from - so the second drive was useful (theoretically I could also have pulled it off the machine's hard drive into an area that the installer could see - but it was easier to find on the second stick). Never needed to use a console line command once.
As regards installing Wary Puppy on my Asus machine - I'll take things carefully. After doing a bit of googling it seems that the original Eee netbook had an unusual wifi chip - and the driver isn't easily available for some Linux distros. Hence, I'll stick with the cut-down Xandros that came with the machine for a little while longer....
David ________________________________________ From: manchester-bounces@lists.fsfe.org [manchester-bounces@lists.fsfe.org] on behalf of D.Bolton U0970268 [U0970268@unimail.hud.ac.uk] Sent: 05 March 2012 23:14 To: Anna Morris Cc: manchester@lists.fsfe.org Subject: Re: [FSFE-Manc] Live CD
Thanks Anna. I'll take a collection of sticks, just in case ;-)
Incidentally, there seems to be a puupy-based server package described here: http://puppylinux.org/wikka/HiawathaServerMySQL
Might be worth looking at.
Or maybe I should try squeezing Centos onto the Asus......
David ________________________________________ From: Anna Morris [say.hello.to.anna@googlemail.com] Sent: 05 March 2012 22:48 To: D.Bolton U0970268 Cc: manchester@lists.fsfe.org Subject: Re: [FSFE-Manc] Live CD
I think you need two sticks for USB pup, one for dist and one for all else. Pup irc are really great btw, much help there :-)
ax
On Monday, March 5, 2012, D.Bolton U0970268 <U0970268@unimail.hud.ac.ukmailto:U0970268@unimail.hud.ac.uk> wrote:
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.orgmailto:manchester-bounces@lists.fsfe.org [manchester-bounces@lists.fsfe.orgmailto:manchester-bounces@lists.fsfe.org] on behalf of Sam Tuke [samtuke@fsfe.orgmailto:samtuke@fsfe.org] Sent: 05 March 2012 17:45 To: manchester@lists.fsfe.orgmailto: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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