This is my pupping journal. I am complete newbie with a bit of imagination what those tiny people inside my PC look like and enough brain to klick here if it says "click here".
I installed Fedora once before, now excited by 120MB os on USB stick I simply couldn't resist.
Finally I have my puppy up and running and would like to share my day to day experience, fo sake of giving feedback to developers.
I will happily share whenever I encounter any trouble and even more happily if I will find a solution. I know that some people will post a solution here, but if not - sooner or later I will
So for the starter:
I wanted badly to bypass burning CD, however finally I gave up.
I tried to run puppy in virtual machine n windows and there create bootable USB, but I didn't succeed, however I didn't try that bootfat option (in universal installer).
After instalation I managed to use my USB dongle for the internet, however puppy didn't see my built in wifi adapter. Firstly I tried Frisbee [no success] than I tried "Network Wizard" but it was absolute failure. I neither understood that tool nor its feedbacks.
Finally I downloaded broadcom and my wifi magically appeared.
Next I want to have an icon on desktop that will run an .exe file in wine. I noticed that when I click .exe, wine takes control, but i need to mount file first.
Therefore i created new script in /usr/local/bin called defaultprogram, and stated to think how do I mount a HD using console.
No info whatsoever. mount /dev/sda1 return this nasty problem with some unexisting catalogue that does not exist.
Finally I understood that to mount sda1 I need to
mkdir /mnt/dsa1
and then
mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/sda1
I put those commands in my script and it works.
Now I need to add exec /mnt/sda1/users/me/exes/program.exe
and hopefully wine will do the rest for me if not I will replace exec with wine and maybe that will do.
That's it for now. I hope it's wise what I'm doing here. I wouldn't post in that neewbie feedback forum because I would like old dogs to see also what way my thinking goes.
for the future reference. My aim is to discover why actually using puppy is so cool and learn how to vrite more complicated things than plug and run scripts.
Thanks and see you soon
