Are you sure the card will be faster than your HDD I would test that on your setup? For testing purposes I have been running 2.14 and benchmarking the load time of Sea Monkey on my old rig. As the first action after Gui loads and no HD activity: Using hda4 swap it takes 16 minutes to load Sea Monke...

With only 40MB RAM you're going to be doing a lot of swapping I presume you're aware of the limited number of writes to CF over its life? Are you sure the card will be faster than your HDD I would test that on your setup? If the above is not the case surely you are better of using Gparted to increa...

I have a laptop and am trying to breath new life into it. So I plugged a 128 MB CF Card into a PCMCIA adapter and it was addressed as another HD; hcd. I wonder if I can prioritize my swap to CF then to the presumably slower HD? (I'm thinking that the CF will be faster than the HD) Anyway the cf card...

anyway the steps are rather outdated from the sources i garnered. cause me several hours of confusion. I'm listing the exact steps that worked for me. credits to the sources, esp to http://puppylinux.org/wikka/HardDiskInstall In the wiki you can make additions and changes to make it accurate. I hav...

Dell latitude LM laptop p133 40mb ram 2G HD Bios is not CD bootable linux swap of 75mb (video requires Frame Buffering) I'm running 2.14 as a frugal install. But due to near unusable load time for Sea monkey (16 minutes) and near unusable applications Geany. I'm looking for a leaner puppy. Meanpup 2...

You will certainly get MicroMuppy running, but I'd go for John Murga's MeanPup which has Opera. With so little RAM, be sure to severely restrict the size of your swap partition, say ~50-60max, in order to avoid HD thrash. I have actually run trials on some of these old machines, so be careful about...

Puppy 2.13 SeaMonkey full drivers ISO was redownloaded and I was able to boot using the WakePup2 floppy on my old dell Latitude LM. 40mb ram p133 2g hd the install in running with a 60Mb swap file. many thanks to Robert and Pakt for wakepup2 and the community for advice on making this "old lapt...

[quote=] ---> Does anyone know of a DOS program that could be used to create a type 82 swap partition and write it's signature? This would be really handy to help prepare a swap partition in advance of getting linux operating... <--- Anyway, again it is progress, and I'm thankful for the help so far...

See for example http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=14068 It appears that the video selection has been coded in the Wake pup ISO and files. No, WakePup doesn't append any video boot options. However, if your running WakePup from floppy, you can edit autoexec.bat (IIRC) and add any boot ...

I have been lucky to get generous support to get my dell Latitude LM p133 40m ram and 2 g HD set up to this point. I'm booting up using a wakepup2 floppy to then boot from the cd, My bios doesn't boot from CD. I have 3 options to boot into meanpup2.02. I have chosen Force aspi (since the other two d...

Wake pup have given life to my Old Laptop. Can you suggest if I can control the load of FB800x600 so the video will work with the Dell Latitude LM? specifically, Is there a way to allow a user option on the menu for Frame buffering of video? It appears that the video selection video=VGA has been cod...

I have been able to get loaded into puppy w/ (bad video) at 1024 x 768 I have dell latitude LM p133 40m ram 2g HD. This machine needs fb800X600 frame buffered I have a working partition with DSL installation How would I specify video resolution using the new boot floppy. Any suggestion? in the boot ...

...but if you're willing to experiment then two tools worth getting to know are cfdisk & grub. once you're acquainted with them, getting a friendly distro, like puppy, going is easy peasey. anyway, i was curious when you said you tried sbm & got SBMK bad , so googling for this gave this lin...

I have been bouncing around distros for this laptop. Dell Latitude LM 3com Ethernet card P133 40 MB RAM 2G of disk space. Tried Free bsd, redhat 8, and was referred here for the folks at Ubuntu. With only 40Mb RAM you will need to first boot from Gparted LiveCD - available as a small ISO from Distr...

I have been bouncing around distros for this laptop. Dell Latitude LM 3com Ethernet card P133 40 MB RAM 2G of disk space. Tried Free bsd, redhat 8, and was referred here for the folks at Ubuntu. Can you suggest if chubby Puppy will load and boot into this near door stop of an old laptop? the laptop ...