How to put Puppy on a Xo.01 Laptop?

[Semme]

Lawrence,

First things first. Though mistfire has updated certain aspects of X-Slacko Slim, I don't endorse the use of dated Pups for Internet.

Last post to XOpup / X-Slacko Slim "Is just a plaything?" << But hey, no harm in a test drive.

While either may boot, I feel you'll struggle finding an up-to-date, YouTube compatible browser. Palemoon, if that XO-1 can even open YouTube with a current browser, will be your best bet on the browser side. Low RAM and a not too quick processor are dicey @ best. For these reasons I feel antiX, with its "apt-get" Debian base & low system requirements should be your first choice. You however are in the drivers seat. Try what you like. In fact, try'm all should you not like one or the other.

https://download.tuxfamily.org/antix/do ... index.html

"Base" will give you a few apps; Core will provide even fewer programs but won't bog you down with non-essentials. YOU "sudo apt-get" the browser.

As for how to get the ISO on there, a few choices:

• ISObooter << For test purposes this would be my choice.
• Rufus - Popular.
• Fedora LiveUSB Creator - Or what Fedora recommended back in the day. Seems to have features I haven't seen in other USB installers.

Remember now, since I'm not @ all familiar with the XO-1, keep this for reference.

[lawrencejd1978]

i tried many images but this unit keep show

boot failed...

[Semme]

That's it, read the posts by Mavrothal. You're on the right track.

To install [your_OS], download the *.tar.gz file, expand it at the root of an ext2/ext3/vfat formatted USB or SDcard and boot your XO-1 or XO-1.5.

Unless you go with one of these XOpups, the prerequisite is converting one of these ISO's to a disk *.img.

[mikeslr]

Unless you go with one of these XOpups, the prerequisite is converting one of these ISO's to a disk *.img.

per, https://askubuntu.com/questions/1205768 ... t-in-linux, it seems all that may be necessary is to the edit the file to change the ending "iso" to "img". But, if you prefer a cli alternative, this code was provided:

dd if=/home/asic/ubuntu.iso of=/home/asic/ubuntu.img

Which, translated to "Puppy" I think would be

dd if=/PATH-TO-ISO/xslacko-slim-062916.iso of=/DESTINATION-FOLDER/xslacko-slim-062916.img

Under Windows>
Just noting for future reference: Untested, but the link to it showed a 4 out of 5 star rating by over 11K users, https://ultraiso.informer.com/

[mikeslr]

Hi lawrencejd1978,

I'm not sure if this will work on your computer, but:

You can download dpup-stretch from here, http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... 590#974590. jamesbond ran tests showing that it would function on systems with only 256 Mbs of RAM, http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... 98#1020898 and how he set it up. Many of us have commented on its low RAM demands. dpup-stretch is a fairly recent puppy capable of running recent applications including web-browsers. But, as semme and flashpointed out, streaming youtube will probably be a 'no-go' especially when taking a child's attention span into consideration.

The alternative is to download the video. I know that there are specific apps to download videos from Youtube: smtube/player & gtk-youtube-viewer. I'm not sure about their current status, especially for running under dpup-stretch. Perhaps others familiar with them can advise. But the following worked. I don't think my computer's far greater RAM matters:

Mike Walsh has published a Seamonkey version 2.46 portable. http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... 26#1024826 Into it you can download, unzip and install the "classic Firefox add-ons" from here, https://github.com/JustOff/ca-archive. With that utility in place, look for and install the NetVideoHunter version, 1.20. With that combination I was just now able to download this 'kids' videos from Youtube, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EyN6X9LHXRY

Make sure you get Seamonkey 2.46 version. Netvideo won't work with later versions.

P.S. Configure Seamonkey (any browser) to download to a folder on /mnt/home. By default, they download to /root/Downloads. Under Frugal Puppies, /root --and any folder not 'hanging from /mnt' -- occupies RAM, reducing the amount of RAM to do actual work.

On that matter, yours may well be a computer where a Full Install is appropriate despite that it requires its own partition and has many other disadvantages, not the least of which is the impossibility of fixing what get broken. Note, however, Jamesbond did NOT do a Full install. Further note, the available space on your storage medium permitting, you could employ a swap partition of 1 Gb or greater. A frugal dpup-stretch with the above mentioned Seamonkey and addons will require less than 1 Gb of storage.