Using SanDisk UltraII SD card, 2GB. Also used an 8 GB card, forget the brand, though. Formatted to ext2 using GParted from Puppy Linux Precise Puppy after booting to a USB drive first. Also tried formatting to FAT32 on a Windows machine, then inserting into the IDE adapter. Still very slow access to...

I like to use a SDHC card in an adapter to run a notebook computer with Puppy. I bought several adapters on eBay, and they have worked well, but today I am kind of stuck. I have a Dell Inspiron 6000 that uses an IDE HDD. When I put a blank SD card into the adapter in the IDE HDD bay, the Inspiron ta...

I am running Lucid 5.2.8 on a Motion M1300 tablet. My wife wanted to be able to read Kindle books using their Cloud Reader in Chrome, but I couldn't make it work with a new Chrome install. It was driving me nuts. (Needed a new install because the .pet for Chrome does not support offline reading) Ins...

VMware Player, at least, will try to make a SCSI virtual drive for your VM, but it does not work for Puppy. You should remove that drive and create a new one that is set up as IDE.

Since your computer has no other boot device but the hard drive, you have some major barriers. Do you wish to replace your primary OS with Puppy, or set up a dual-boot system? The advice so far seems to be pointing in that direction. You can run Puppy Linux, rather slowly, as a virtual machine using...

I downloaded and installed the portable image. Works without additional modification on Lucid Pup 5.2.8. Have to set the file as 'executable' to make it run, but otherwise, it works 'out of the box'. Look and feel is very like Paint.NET, which is my favorite graphics editor. Not as complex and featu...

Thanks for all the help. I finally got around to trying it out. So, from the Terminal, I can type in: xrandr -o right and the screen will rotate 90 degrees clockwise, but my pen does not also follow the rotation. Instead, the mouse cursor moves up/down when I move the pen left/right. Looked at the l...

My M1300 displays Puppy desktop in landscape, which is fine, but I'd like to see if I can rotate the screen. The 'screen rotation' thread says to use a command-line command called 'xrandr', as in: xrandr -o right which rotates the screen 90 degrees right. This is fine. But now my stylus doesn't trac...

I just got started with a M1200 tablet, and am using a virtual keyboard. I'll give cellwriter a try now.

Posted about this at http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=599030#599030 I haven't tried to do this from a clean installation of Puppy, so I am suddenly wondering if previous modifications of xorg.conf and rc.local may be involved as well. I'll see what I can do about making a clean insta...

Just to clarify: I inherited a M1300 computer. Can boot to USB drive with Puppy. I've tried for months, off and on, to make the pen work. Recently posted on this at: http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy//viewtopic.php?t=74814 The M1300 touchscreen is a serial device, not a USB device, in case that's of ...

Thanks, don570. It works. I don't know what kind of pen functions other people want, but I am happy just to have the stylus work like a mouse. The mouse cursor moves with the stylus movement whenever the stylus is within an inch or so of the screen. The little clicker-button on the side of the stylu...

Usually, institutional computers are locked down to prevent this kind of thing. Some institutional IT policies may prohibit taking over their computers at all, and so you might find your school network access blocked, if they decide to take action. Just be aware that you probably signed many usage l...

I am pretty sure you need MS Silverlight to make NetFlix to work, and so you're stuck with a Windows environment.

(Please, someone tell me I'm wrong!)

Not an expert on VBox, but . . .

Don't you need to be an Admin to install VBox on your host?
If so, then it's not what was asked for. However, VirtualBox is often cited as the way to go if you want to run a Linux virtual machine.

(Personally, I use VMware Player, which I am more familiar with)

OK, one of my problems is that I sometimes get confused when reading about using a "tablet". At times, a post is really talking about a PC that is equipped with a stylus or touch-activated screen in which a stylus moves the mouse cursor around. This is what I am interested in. At other tim...

OK, so at: http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=491146#491146 there is an implication that the Wacom tablet driver is already installed, or in some way present, in Puppy after version 4.1 or 4.2. I assume this is also true for Lucid Pup versions. The Wacom driver is not loaded . . . or somet...

I'd be happy to have any kind of coherent instructions on this subject. I don't need anything fancy, just make the pen work like a mouse. I'd even be OK if I had to use the hardware buttons to click the mouse! I'm desperate! In 2010, I posted that I'm ignorant http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto...

This is the site for QEMU Puppy http://www.erikveen.dds.nl/qemupuppy/ You might try this out, at least to see how you like it. Uses an older version of Puppy (2.17) My own experience is that, from a USB drive, Puppy under QEMU is slow. Maybe too slow to really be useful. There is a QEMU accelerator,...

Thank you all so much for your contributions here. I was getting really bummed that I couldn't get VMware Player to install and run. If it's not inappropriate, I'd like to point to a post of mine about installing VMware Player at: http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=462112#462112 This post ...