Thanks Bruce & Flash. That sounds great except it would be a bit slower to boot. ... ie reading from a CD/DVD drive and not a hard drive. I will do some testing tonight and I can answer this question myself but does Puppy access the cd/dvd drive during multisession cd/dvd use? Hey .. just had an...

Ahh .. that is the one! Thank you very much

You puppy guys are great. I am just setting up a dozen partitions right now to get back into puppy again.

Hi guys,

Umm not sure ... many distros give you the options for ext2, ext3, xfs, jfs, reiserfs.

Just the standard jfs filesystem with archlinux.?

Wow .. thanks for the fast helpful replies :) I used Puppy a few years ago for a full year ... but since moved onto other distros but ... even with a 4Ghz, I still love & need the low latency of Puppy! I read the puppy wiki about installing with grub, so I should be able to work my way through t...

Puppy cannot access my JFS filesystems

How can Puppy see my JFS partitions?

(a) does puppy make full use of my RAM if I do not use the pfix=ram? Hence, so if I have 8Gb there are no performance benefits using the pfix=ram boot prompt? (b) if I always save my changes, does the pupsave file grow bigger & bigger everyday or does it somehow only remember the changes which m...

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Hmmm but seems to work ok when you right-click and 'save link as' !?

Hmm maybe not. My linux skills are really going downhill. I can't even download an iso these days

Caneri wrote:Hi Gray,
Here's a high speed link to use
http://puppylinux.igsobe.com/puppylinux ... 10-NOP.iso

Thanks. I was getting lost trying to work out which file to download!

However whilst it provided high speed access to the iso link, that server is SLOW!!!!!!!!

thanks fellow aussie

Guess I am just thinking more generally at this stage and considering the following options: a) old Pentium, Puppy & TV Card. Definately digital - either SD or HD? Hopefully HD if it can handle HD? b) Digital Set-Top Box to use with an LCD monitor c) just buying a LCD TV If a 700MHz Puppy can ru...

If I install a TV card in an old Pentium 700Mhz and use a lightweight distro like Puppy, will the performance be sufficient to run the TV with good quality?

The following distributions match your PPC criteria are ... but there are not too many live distros and those that are 'live' are mostly large and will be slow on your computer. The only one that looks like it is worth a try is Finnix or SystemRescueCD. 1. CentOS 2. CRUX 3. Debian GNU/Linux 4. Edubu...

Considering the G4 has a PPC processor and puppy is complied for x64 then you are going to be struggling.

I suggest you go to this website and search for PowerPC processor architectures and find which distros you could use ....

http://distrowatch.com/search.php

I tried your suggestion and used GParted Live which was great.

I could re-shuffle the partitions just as i needed to - although it took a long long time!

Thanks Bruce B.

It does make sense. Thanks just wish I knew more about primary and extended partitions, etc and the limitations when I set-up my drive.

I guess it is not too much hassle to set it all up again, and copy and move data around. Tweaking all my frugal installs and grub is easy anyway.

Ah that doesn't work .. will have to try a more complex solution as recommended!

QUOTE: "Make a new partition in the 'unallocated' 3.03GB - as hda9 - formatted as ext2." Actually I should have explained what I am trying to do at a higher level. I really just want a free partition to install my only non-live distro! (Yes I know I am going backwards!) So I think the abov...

Here is the attachment of my filesystem. As you can see, I have already reduced the size of hda4 hence there is 3.03Gb unallocated.

I would like to increase hda6 by 3.03Gb but GParted doesn't seem to allow this to happen as described above.

Any ideas would be great

Yes almost. I'll grab a screenshot tonight which will clarify. I think there are some basics of partitioning that I dont fully understand wrt to resizing!

Thanks Dot. They are ext2 and ext3. It seems to let me shrink them smaller but only at the back end of the partition. The front end is locked. But then to increase the size of a partition earlier on the disk, I would need to move a few partitions forward (if that makes sense). Something like ... hda...