motorcity wrote:
How dedicated should Pussy be to old stuff? I believe Puppy makes that something of importance, perhaps I'm wrong about Puppy
Hi, Motorcity,
Puppy has versions for old hardware, laptops, and new hardware. You can't run successful any Puppy on any hardware.
Maybe I'm wrong but I think your problem with Guvcview is more web camera related than old computer related. Try to use luvcview instead. It is also included in Pussy linux. Or try to install any other web camera viewer with apt-get or Sinapthic. There should be something which will work for you.
I still consider my self as linux noob but I don't agree with Sickgut that frugal hard disk install is difficult. Installing ubuntu driving me crazy with all the questions and waiting the installing process to finish. Installing Slackware with auto install all packages option is much more fun but the process is longer.
Installing Puppy linux is perfect and I'm sure the script it uses can be edited to do the same job for Pussy linux but I'm not the one who can do it yet.
Installing Pussy linux frugal - here is my way:
1. Install GeeXbox from here (if you don't have Grub already) - easy part:
http://www.geexbox.org/
GeeXbox is small multimedia linux distro and you can wacth almost any movie format when you boot in GeeXbox. Old versions take only 8 Mb of HDD space.
It should find your previous installed OS and include them in the Grub menu.
2. Copy the /live folder on the top directory on ext or vfat partition - easy part.
3. Edit Grub with the right boot code - the difficult part which will be much more easier if we have more working examples for Grub Legacy, Grub2, Grub4Dos, Lilo.
One advice to you, Motorcity, in case your troubles are really from old hardware. You can find older versions of Debian Live CD:
http://live.debian.net/archive/images/
Pickup one and make frugal install the same way as Pussy linux. Note there might be 2 vmlinuz and 2 imnitrd.img inside because you can choose different kernel. Use only one of them by renaming or move in another folder the other two.
Then boot to the command prompt and login as
user with password
live.
Then create root password:
Then logout and login as root and run:
Then install with apt-get squashfs-tools, xorg and choose a desktop that you like - jwm + Rox, xfce4, lxde etc.
Example:
Then delete all downloaded debian packages from /var/cahce/apt/archives and create a snapshot (squash file) with:
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mksquashfs /live/cow /live/image/live/any-name.squashfs
You will get a lot of crap in the snapshot but there is no easy way to remove it without having troubles later. JBV has posted a lot information about cleaning the snapshot here in the thread.
Make sure the filesystem squash will load before your custom in /live folder. Rename them as 1-filesystem.squashfs and 2-any-name.squashfs.
Instead of snapshot you can use live-rw save file but I think Xorg and Desktop should be in a squash file to have less troubles in the future.
Reboot the computer and you have your own small OS for your old hardware.
Cheers