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by Old puppy
Fri 06 Apr 2012, 09:18
Forum: Beginners Help ( Start Here)
Topic: Newbies - Puppy needs YOUR help too!
Replies: 1113
Views: 661163

You don't think that there are a lot of us from the stone age? (actually, I have some moderately new machines that I normally run on, but like to play with really old hardware). People feel lonely for a number of reasons. Everyone experiences loneliness. Luckily, though, there are a number of ways ...
by Old puppy
Thu 05 Apr 2012, 06:07
Forum: Beginners Help ( Start Here)
Topic: Newbies - Puppy needs YOUR help too!
Replies: 1113
Views: 661163

Got it, and sure, you talked about a swap partition. I've preferred a swap file just because atm I feel more comfortable with them than with partitions. This is what I've done (following somebody else instructions, ofc): dd if=/dev/zero of=/mnt/home/puppy.swp bs=1024 count=64k mkswap /mnt/home/puppy...
by Old puppy
Wed 04 Apr 2012, 07:04
Forum: Beginners Help ( Start Here)
Topic: Newbies - Puppy needs YOUR help too!
Replies: 1113
Views: 661163

You need more RAM. Recommended minimum for full installation is 128MB; for frugal installation, 256MB. Then go to Menu / System / GParted and make a Linux-swap partition. RAM-only or RAM+swap should equal 512M Thank you for your answer, it was really appreciated. Indeed, that is, but being close to...
by Old puppy
Tue 03 Apr 2012, 09:43
Forum: Beginners Help ( Start Here)
Topic: Newbies - Puppy needs YOUR help too!
Replies: 1113
Views: 661163

I think that I can give you a rare point of view here, the one coming from a perfect and unskilled nobody, who used just win98se for over a decade and who installed puppy 5.2.2 right yesterday. To start off, the installation . As I've written on the other board -beginners help-, although totally uns...
by Old puppy
Tue 03 Apr 2012, 08:33
Forum: Beginners Help ( Start Here)
Topic: A Beginner's Guide to Installing Puppy
Replies: 177
Views: 541427

Hi guys, I'm a new entry feeling amazed by this community, and I'd like to share with you my desperate, although successful, puppy 5.2.2 installation (old and unskilled being talking). These were the starting conditions (the reason of that "desperate"): Toshiba satellite 2180cdt, AMD k6-2 ...