Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

[sfeeley]

Congrats!

What you describe is basically what Jim and I were trying to suggest, but sometimes an explanation doesn't make sense until you've figured it out for yourself.

Using that older puppy to bootstrap up to newer puppies is a pretty nifty trick. I wonder if it works on any later version of windows?

there is this
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=42876

But I didn't recommend it because you didn't have a cd burner, and it would wipe out your windows install

BTW: Weary Puppy= Wary Puppy?
(freudian slip?)

[dogle]

Thanks for the good news, jobo, well done!

With 125MB RAM, you're likely to see your Pups looking much less weary if you use GParted to add a Linux swap partition, as and when you feel good and ready.
Hints:
- If intending to retain your W98, backup, and full defrag at least twice before attempting partition changes.
- GParted is very easy to use, but you may need a little time to become accustomed to the way the GParted GUI works.
- I'd go for something like 100MB Linux swap to start with (bigger is not always better).

Oh, BTW, welcome to the Kennels!

PS A guide as you suggest would be splendid (as a HOWTO in that section of the forum. HOWTO as a search term makes stuff much easier to find). IMHO, half the problem of getting going with Linux comes of nobody writing guides before they have long forgotten the pain they had at the start....... ;-)

[jobo]

yes i know, it was your post above that gave me the idea, but i was locked in to why doesnt the weary ( sic) pup work, mode at that point instead of thinking laterally

[jobo]

well being pleased with myself didnt last long, i put the swap file and it was great, then a tried to play a you tube vid, it crashed and stayed crashed

it opens, start fire fox it works a bit then just freezes, any ideas

[Semme]

Hey Joe- if you load: swapon -s into a shell, whaddaya get? No, not a trick question..

[jobo]

[Semme]

Open a terminal and put that in please. Terminals of some sort should be under utility.

Try'n include where this swapfile of yours is.. If you can determine- full path please..

By the way, you've made fine progress as a Nix newcomer.. I tip my (tin) hat..

[jobo]

i put it in to urxvt terminal emulator ( is that correct ?) and it said comand not found

[Semme]

Sure, that's fine. Did you type: swapon -s and NOT: swapon-s? The space makes all the difference..

Can't image your weary Pup lacks the ability to pull off a simple swapon..

[jobo]

just read your edit, its not easy as i have to keep comeing out of pup to post

re swap, i couldnt put it on the hard drive as it wont let me edit the partitions whist using the partition so i put it on the mem stick in the usb, but it did work very well till i tried you tube, it still works very quickly till i launch fire fox and then it gets slower and slower till it all stops

[jobo]

[Semme]

Well.. did you try both?

[jobo]

yes i missed the s[pace out ( duh_

it says
/dev/sdb4( which is the USB stick) (type) partition ( size) 131048 ( used ) 0 (priority) -1

???

that nothing like the size i set it at which was 126 mg

[Semme]

You're right. That's like 1.3gig- TOO much, but OK for the moment.

My question now moves towards which version of FF you're running.

Where'd you get it from.. pacman, the repos, Mozilla?

By the way- would you consider Opera for browsing?

[jobo]

from the built in repository
4.6 If i remember ?, there were two options a 3point something and a 4 point something and i think it was the 4 and i think it was 4.6, i can go back and check if you like, but it takes a few mins