I want to simplify the installation process for myself and other amateurs like me, mainly by removing confusing and unnecessary options. I think this would solve most of the problems in my first post. The live CD contains a file called isolinux.cfg, what needs adding or removing from this so that it...

Which tool are you using to connect to wireless I was using the standard installed tool that you get when you right-click on the network icon on the bottom panel - "Barry's Simple Network Setup". I have re-installed Puppy 5.2.8 using the special Bash script and Chrome now connects. Still ...

I have set the wireless modem to the highest level of security it has, which is WEP unfortunately. I have tried it with both 64 bit and 128 bit keys. I'm very impressed with the Puppy installation of the wireless card on the laptop – it was completely automatic (in stark contrast to the nightmare wh...

I've already posted on this topic here: http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=669518#669518 but it wasn't really the right place for it and I still haven't solved the problems. Please ignore this post for a bit - I'm busy rewriting it! Now rewritten - please feel free to post. This is mostly ...

Thanks for the answer Puppyluvr. The command is google-chrome but it won't run as root, it demands that I specify an alternative user-data-dir. Post #11 on this website http://www.backtrack-linux.org/forums/showthread.php?t=40975&page=2 gives the answer which is to start Chrome with google-chrom...

In 5.4.2 Puppy, Google Chrome, which is to me is the most useful program, has been removed from the package manager. I have downloaded the .deb file and installed it, but it hasn't appeared on the menu or as a browser choice. I have tried [alt]right-click on the menu but that obviously isn't the way...

Oscar Talks ...make sure the Linux partition in which I am installing Puppy is flagged as the boot partition (using GParted)... Good tip, I have checked and the partition has got the 'boot' flag. I tried installing GRUB many times unsuccessfully with 'GRUB bootloader config/simple' (I chose this opt...

Try using Grub4dos 'Automatic' sounds good! I wasn't keen on the 'DOS' bit, as I don't want to have anything to do with Window$, but I have now tried it and it's much simpler than the other one - thanks. I get a Windows/Advanced Menu option when I bootup. If I select Advanced Menu I get a list of o...

I was very impressed with what the last version did for my old laptop so decided to upgrade to Precise 5.4 and do a 'Full' installation this time because as a user of other distributions I feel more comfortable with it. As there was already a Puppy version on the disk, I remembered to type puppy pfi...

Unfortunately, Chromium and Chrome do not support most Athlon-XP processors or anything else under an i686. I've just installed Google Chrome 14.0.835.186 and am using it now. Good news because it's faster than Firefox, runs videos out-of-the-box and is preferable all round IMHO. This old laptop is...

:D xwin jwm I opened a terminal and typed that - but nothing happened. However I have found an application called WM Switcher which is available from JWM and XFCE and works in both directions. I'm not sure which I prefer yet, but XFCE is nearer to my desktop with Ubuntu 12.10 plus Gnome-session-fal...

type: defaultbrowser If dillo is the default browser it runs, but Chromium results in this error message: Illegal instruction Note that I wanted to try XFCE so I've typed xwin startxfce4 and that still starts when I switch on. I'm not sure how to go back to the default desktop - I suppose it might ...

I have installed Chromium-20-lucid as per instructions. The Launcher points to a shell script which exists and has the executable permission, which points to the program which has the executable permission. I have selected Chromium as the default browser. Yet nothing happens when I click on the Brow...

I spent hours trying to work out how to install Grub and when I succeeded, what to do because there was no /boot directory with the lst file and was about to give up. Then I found this thread with the one-click installer! I had found the right answer in the first thread I looked at and it worked fir...