Hello,
I'm new to both Linux and Puppy and I have a few simple questions (I hope that they are simple). Firstly, there are a number of different tasks that I would like to be able to do and I just want to make sure that I can do them with Puppy before investing a chunk of time learning how to use Puppy.
1. I have an old laptop that I would like to use to show DVDs for the kids while traveling in the car. Because it is an older machine I don't want the computer to do anything else that migh slow it down, besides playing the DVD.
Can I boot with the Puppy Live-CD, take the CD out, put in a DVD, and watch the movie? Without needing to use the hard drive?
2. Boot a computer (with the LiveCD) and backup / copy the data & files on the hard drive to either a FTP server (using the network) or burn to a CDR / CDRW (ie: I would need to remove the Puppy Live CD first and insert a blank CDR to burn the files onto).
3. Boot with the Puppy Live-CD and do a virus scan on the harddrive?
I often need to do number 2 & 3 when I visit friends and family as they are always having problems. Most of them run Windows and in some cases they have NTFS paritions. Does Puppy work with NTFS partitions?
Finally, I would like to try-out Puppy as a standard desktop and see if at some time down the road, I can switch from using Windows to Puppy full time. Right now I have a machine that has Windows 2000 on it with an NTFS partition that takes up the entire hard drive.
Therefore my second question is, is there anything that I can, or should do to improve Puppy and have it run better? I know that I can run it as a Live CD to test it out -- but I don't know if there are limitations that could be over-come, or things that can make it even better
I realize the best option would be to install Puppy on the hard drive itself -- that is not an option right now as I still need Windows and don't have a spare parition on the hard drive. I also do not want to risk re-sizing the existing partition at this time.
I have lots of free room on the NTFS partition, but I don't know if that helps or not.
One of the things that I like about Puppy is that it runs on older hardware, and utilizes running everything in RAM. If you do copy / install Puppy on the hard drive, does it still run everything in RAM or not?
One last question -- is it possible to have everything run from RAM, but have the ability to save your files (ie: spreadsheets, pictures, documents) etc. on a hard drive?
Thanks so much,
Hugh
Questions before I try Puppy (Answered)
Let's be clear:
- Puppy plays movies
- You can save files on hd, ftp and burn a cd
- You don't need the Puppycd after boot unless you got less than 128 mb RAM
- To scan viruses you need to download a package made for puppy
- If you want, you then can make your own Puppy Live-CD incuding virus program
- The upcoming version Puppy 2.02 (release maybe tomorrow) will have full support of NTFS.
- Puppy runs completely in RAM (if 128 mb) and you can store your work on hd or even burn it back to the live-cd.
Go get it!
- Puppy plays movies
- You can save files on hd, ftp and burn a cd
- You don't need the Puppycd after boot unless you got less than 128 mb RAM
- To scan viruses you need to download a package made for puppy
- If you want, you then can make your own Puppy Live-CD incuding virus program
- The upcoming version Puppy 2.02 (release maybe tomorrow) will have full support of NTFS.
- Puppy runs completely in RAM (if 128 mb) and you can store your work on hd or even burn it back to the live-cd.
Go get it!
