My first post. Downloaded Puppy 1.0.4 lastnight and am amazed at this distro running on my 2.5 GHz, 768Meg, PC. Wow!
However ... I'm investigating Puppy because I'm looking for a distro that win98 users could switch to -- and ditch their virus, spyware, pop-ups, and upgrade blues -- without having to buy new hardware.
The typical win98 pc was sold with only 64 Meg of RAM. I'd like to be able to show Puppy to prospective switchers without doing surgery on their PCs to install more RAM and without partitioning their harddrive.
Is it possible to get Puppy to run from their win98 partition, and possibily even use a swap file on that partition? And cut down the RAM needs to under 64 Meg? (Typical win98 boxes also stole system RAM for video chores.)
Is this possible -- or am I barking up the wrong tree?
puppy as win98 replacement?
What you are trying to do is absolutelly possible.
You should read this thread
and this page
The instructions are for Puppy 1.0.1 but I don't see why they wouldn't work with 1.0.4
You should read this thread
and this page
The instructions are for Puppy 1.0.1 but I don't see why they wouldn't work with 1.0.4
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for anyeverybody
I think and know if I was raised using puppy instead of windows I would stay
it is interesting instead of cleaning my registry and other everyday task
now I'm trying help and create things for puppy!!!
a long ride it's been for me in the computer world
it is interesting instead of cleaning my registry and other everyday task
now I'm trying help and create things for puppy!!!
a long ride it's been for me in the computer world
Heaven is on the way, until then let's get the truth out!
Another thread with similar goals -- to allow puppy to run on obsolete PCs. Thanks, Bruce!
http://www.murga.org/%7Epuppy/viewtopic.php?t=1737
http://www.murga.org/%7Epuppy/viewtopic.php?t=1737