I am new to Puppy and want to do a full install on my OLPC XO-1. (It's my only laptop and I need to make it as functional as possible for travel and when it's too hot to use a desktop!)
I made sure my XO is "security disabled", downloaded slacko-5.3.3_XO.tar.gz, confirmed MD5, extracted to a small thumb drive, and XO boots beautifully with it. Connect to Internet with Frisbee, no problem. (However, it gets to RAM is low and even RAM is critical very quickly. With a single browser opened to laptop.org, and no other applications running, happened within a minute. Using a 1G USB drive that has 89% space free after extracting puppy to it.)
I want to do a full install - if not of slacko then whatever folks recommend. (Hope to use for e-mail (Sylpheed currently), skype (audio), pidgin or similar for IM, read PDFs, play video with audio (right now the goal is a short QuickTime (*.mov), not sure whether that's realistic), light word processing, browse web, etc.)
Not exactly sure what that refers to unless it's just how to run puppy from the USB. I've read about different methods including a script and the Universal Installer and thought I'd try the Universal Installer. If I click on the "Install" button on the desktop, and then in the box that opens click on the button to run the Universal Installer, that box disappears and nothing happens. No other program is (visibly) launched. As an experiment I've also tried the button for the BootFlash USB installer (which has the same icon as the Universal Installer) and that program doesn't launch, either. The other 3 buttons (for web page, package manager, and SFS downloader) do work.mavrothal wrote: Install as the original XOpup.
Questions:
- * RAM shouldn't get to critical so quickly with a full install, right? A full install would be preferred over puppy on USB drive or SD card in this case, right?
- * Is this the right method for a full install? If so, what steps am I missing or is there a problem with launching the universal installer? (I'd check to see whether it's installed but haven't found info on the package name / location yet.)
- * Is slacko an appropriate version for my purposes? (I know I need to install the software I want, and if necessary could use a version that has minimal/no applications except the package manager to do the installs.)
Update: Tried racy-5.3 and had the same issues as with slacko. (Installer not launching, running out of RAM quickly.)