Puppy Linux

Hi.
I found an article about Puppy Linux.
It seems OK to try.
Comments?
I have never used any version of Linux.
I'm confused what file to download to make it work from a CD
I want to boot to the CD drive and try it without touching
my original operating system.
http://www.puppylinux.org/user/viewpage.php?page_id=1

Anyone who can send me the best direct link, thanks.

C.L.

reply in the newsgroup thanks.

"LINUX QUEST" <der@yahoo.com.tw> wrote in message
news:13s4j67o9vqva7b@corp.supernews.com...
| Hi.
| I found an article about Puppy Linux.
| It seems OK to try.
| Comments?
| I have never used any version of Linux.
| I'm confused what file to download to make it work from a CD
| I want to boot to the CD drive and try it without touching
| my original operating system.
| http://www.puppylinux.org/user/viewpage.php?page_id=1
|
| Anyone who can send me the best direct link, thanks.
|
| C.L.
|
| reply in the newsgroup thanks.


http://www.puppylinux.com/ is found on the page you furnished. Sounds
interesting.

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On Sun, 24 Feb 2008 21:06:14 -0800, LINUX QUEST wrote:

> Hi.
> I found an article about Puppy Linux. It seems OK to try.
> Comments?
> I have never used any version of Linux. I'm confused what file to
> download to make it work from a CD I want to boot to the CD drive and
> try it without touching my original operating system.
> http://www.puppylinux.org/user/viewpage.php?page_id=1
> 
> Anyone who can send me the best direct link, thanks.
> 
> C.L.
> 
> reply in the newsgroup thanks.

The procedure is pretty uniform for any Linux Live CD and, in fact, also 
for install only CDs. You download the .iso file, then check the md5sum 
(sort of a super checksum - to ascertain if it was downloaded correctly) 
if it is supplied. Then use your CD writing software to write to the CD 
as an 'iso disk image' or some related terminology. You can easily tell 
if you've done it right - simple mount the CD - if there is only one file 
on the disk, that is not right and it won't work - you should see several 
files and directories on the CD.

Then, you simply make sure that the BIOS is set to boot from CD before 
the hard disk and reboot.

You may also want to know that you can order a Ubuntu CD from Ubuntu and 
they will gladly ship it for free - no cost - not even postage - though 
it will take several weeks.

I have nothing against Puppy, but it is rather a spartan Linux 
environment. You'd probably be happier with something like Ubuntu (comes 
as a bootable Live CD with install feature (Puppy does that too, I 
believe)) unless you have quite old/slow equipment.

distrowatch.com has a 'hit page ranking' on their site showing the major 

"LINUX QUEST" <der@yahoo.com.tw> wrote in message
news:13s4j67o9vqva7b@corp.supernews.com...
> Hi.
> I found an article about Puppy Linux.
> It seems OK to try.
> Comments?
> I have never used any version of Linux.
> I'm confused what file to download to make it work from a CD
> I want to boot to the CD drive and try it without touching
> my original operating system.
> http://www.puppylinux.org/user/viewpage.php?page_id=1
>
> Anyone who can send me the best direct link, thanks.
>
> C.L.
>
> reply in the newsgroup thanks.
>
>
>


I gave Puppy Linux a try the other day
and since it loads into a RAM drive...runs quite a bit faster than the
average
live distro.

I had a minor problem when I did the HD install
in that I could not get the boot loader to work
(it never got installed) but that could have been due to some H/W error.
I tried a different HD and it was fine.

Another really good , minimal distribution is Damn Small Linux


and as far as fuller distributions go, my favorite is PCLinuxOS


anyway, I used puppy 3.01 sea monkey


Just download the .iso file
and then with your cd burning software, there should be an option to "burn
image"

be sure to use the "burn image" option


whatever you do,  do *not* just burn the file you download directly to cd

"ikouna" <oh@oh.spam> wrote in message
news:op.t636nroq5dgiod@linux...
>
> > I had a minor problem when I did the HD install
> > in that I could not get the boot loader to work
> > (it never got installed)
>
> If you ever have a problem with the boot loader I
> reccomend this:
>
> http://gag.sourceforge.net/
>
> It can be burned into a CD
>


I never saw that one before thanks for poting the link!