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puppy as win98 replacement?
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jh
 Joined: 26 Jul 2005 Posts: 17 |
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? |
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rarsa
 Joined: 29 May 2005 Posts: 3053 Location: Kitchener, Ontario, Canada |
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 |
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Bancobusto
 Joined: 13 Jun 2005 Posts: 168 Location: Vancouver Island |
damn, you beat me to it, rarsa! 
_________________ Freedom isn't just a Puppy-Linux forum member! |
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rarsa
Joined: 29 May 2005 Posts: 3053 Location: Kitchener, Ontario, Canada |
Sorry Bancobusto, but you have to be on top of it if you don't want too loose to the competition! Actually I'm sorry that I gave jh the fish. I should have taught jh to fish by suggesting to do a search on 'boot from Win98' in the forum. |
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jh
Joined: 26 Jul 2005 Posts: 17 |
Thanks for the link, guys! (I'd actually been there before, but missed the part about making a swap file on the win98 partition.) Any issues about using 1.0.4 instead of 1.0.1 to do this? |
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Bruce B
 Joined: 18 May 2005 Posts: 10818 Location: The Peoples Republic of California |
I laughe at the title of your thread. puppy as win98 replacement? I was thinking win98 as a Puppy replacement? Never! |
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klhrevolutionist
 Joined: 08 Jun 2005 Posts: 1124 |
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 _________________ Heaven is on the way, until then let's get the truth out! |
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jh
Joined: 26 Jul 2005 Posts: 17 |
Another thread with similar goals -- to allow puppy to run on obsolete PCs. Thanks, Bruce! http://www.murga.org/%7Epuppy/viewtopic.php?t=1737 |
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