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- Fri 06 Apr 2012, 09:18
- Forum: Beginners Help ( Start Here)
- Topic: Newbies - Puppy needs YOUR help too!
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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 ...
- Thu 05 Apr 2012, 06:07
- Forum: Beginners Help ( Start Here)
- Topic: Newbies - Puppy needs YOUR help too!
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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...
- Wed 04 Apr 2012, 07:04
- Forum: Beginners Help ( Start Here)
- Topic: Newbies - Puppy needs YOUR help too!
- Replies: 1113
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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...
- 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...
- Tue 03 Apr 2012, 08:33
- Forum: Beginners Help ( Start Here)
- Topic: A Beginner's Guide to Installing Puppy
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