Posted: Sat 07 Apr 2012, 19:40
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"Old" ideas for a new lightweight pup
"Old" ideas for a new lightweight pup
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I don't have a specific answer that will help, but I am in the middle of a similar issue myself so maybe my general info may be of use. There is an interaction between various modules in the video software so it is helpful to have some idea of the complexity before you can reduce it to simple steps.rkonrad wrote:The journey now begins to find any an appropriate driver
I don't think you need to drop back to a floppy boot. It almost sounds as if the CD drive could not find a valid "image" on the CD. Did you do a "burn as image", rather than as a file? That is a common issue, especially if it the "burn as image" feature is not clearly defined within your burning programmes options. I think your machine only proceeded to boot the W95 because it saw no valid boot data on the CD.eskimo wrote: I would like to try some Puppy with my very old computer - Pentium 120, 64 MB RAM, 1.6 GB HDD, S3 Trio 64V+ PCI graphics, TEAC 24x CD-ROM drive, MissMelody-compatible ISA sound card, a PCI network card, Award BIOS (and no USB support).
I downloaded the ISO image of the latest 5.3 WaryPuppy, burnt it to a CD, set the boot sequence in BIOS to "CDROM,C,A" and tried to boot... unfortunately it didn't work - although the BIOS made an attempt to boot from the CD-ROM "Starting Windows 95")
If you can boot the CD on another computer (that has a floppy drive), you can go toTo make a long story short, I'm looking for a way to boot Wary Puppy installer from a floppy drive
For frugal installation, that is:The reason is that newer Puppies especially Wary Puppy require 256 mb of ram.
Yes, these are the biggest limitations. It will be interesting to see what benefits Puppy gives you on this hardware.eskimo wrote: ...(browsing today's web with IE 4.0 preinstalled in Win95 is not funny).
...at the time when the motherboard was born USB 1.1 was not yet standardized, not sure about USB 1.0)
Hey, nice work. Very detailed feedback. I think you are right that an install would greatly improve speed. If you come back to the project I'd probably still give the MeanPup a try. Some of the older, more lightweight stuff was optimised for lower memory machines.eskimo wrote: Now I think I'm gonna put this Puppy experiment of mine aside for a while and I'll return to it sometime later... but of course, if any ideas that you think might be useful for me come to your mind in the meantime, please write them down here for me... Thanks!
Don't pay too much attention to the brand name on the package.(got a good-quality Verbatim CD-RW medium for that - previously I had used a cheap noname CD-R)
Wary 5.1.1 k2.6.30.5 (the 4.3.1 kernel) boots quickly on my old Compaq Deskpro P2 / 350 / 320 MB RAM.Yet I can't quite say that I'm too satisfied with the result because the full boot took 5-10 minutes
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=65544Some of the older, more lightweight stuff was optimised for lower memory machines.
definitely will. Puppy tries to load as much from the CD into ram at boot. On a slow CD Rom on a slow computer this can take a lot of time. But will be much faster from HD.I hope, though, that after I'll properly install some Puppy to the HDD the startup won't take so long anymore
eskimo wrote:First I burnt a new bootable CD with WaryPuppy 5.3 at 16x
I had a lot of problems with reading CDRs on older machines till I dropped to 4x burning. Burning at 16x does seem too fast and if your burner supports 4x that is definitely the way to go. Any drive that reads it still has the option of reading at high speed if it can manage it without errors. Didn't know about the narrower tracks. I wonder when they started doing that?Burn_IT wrote:...or it may be so old it is struggling to read the narrower tracks on a new CD. if an old machine won't read a CD, you can get round it by WRITING another CD at just 4x rather than at a higher speed