boot from the live-cd and run the "install puppy hard drive" script in the setup menu. this should make the swap partition for you. the "pup001" file is basically a "soft" partition on your hard drive; you can mount it using the -o loop option (which is useful if you me...

install puppy to a hard drive with a swap partition.

try running xorgwizard again. if that doesn't work, delete or rename the pup001 file and reinstall.

no, the md5 sum was what i wa talking about. i'm not sure why your live cd won't boot when you can obviously boot from another live cd... maybe a dumb question, but you didn't by chance just put the .iso file by itself on a CD, did you? see if the cd will boot in another computer, if so, that will h...

Did you mediacheck the CD to make sure it burned right? It may have burned incorrectly.

that may take a while...the refresh rate on those things is in the seconds. i hear you can expect them to start appearing on product packaging within the next two years, though. a "real" screen should be able to be produced for pennies once OLED technology matures...scientists (god bless '...

i have the same lack of sound problem on my intel desktop board when i try to use the on-board sound card (AC'97 based). I also have a Phillips Sonic Edge installed though, so it's not that big of a deal for me.

Could be an AC'97 driver problem, as I don't think it worked in Fedora, either.

my current PC i s actually made of trash...but I haven't seen anything worth scavenging lately, just old printers and the occasional 486. i didn't think of asking offices for their old equipment, i'm always seeing back rooms filled with old pcs collecting dust. for some reason, i never thought to as...

word. the sd slot is controlled by the TI Cardbus controller. you need a driver for this controller to work. however, it looks like this driver is running. you could try taking a look at /etc/pcmcia/config and /etc/pcmcia/config.opts and see if anything in there pertains to your hardware. alternativ...

doesn't compact flash fail after so many data writes? or was that something else?

well, i already plugged the jack-pc... ( http://www.chippc.com/ ) its RISC-architecture would at the least require a kernel recompiling, though. now if they had a geode-based version, that'd be gravy. actually, those gumstik PCs might work...if you can boot from the usb port or set up puppy on the M...

probably...you'd have to see what text strings print out when you hit the Fn key and your keypad and map the resulting strings to the numbers/arrows.

in theory, a flash bios should be able to be modified to boot from usb. however, if you mess it up, your motherboard will be dead, unless you can get a spare motherboard with the same bios on it and hot swap it back (switch the chip while the board is running and reboot). some boards also have a fac...

Well, according to the AMD website, the Alchemy processor does indeed support Linux: see here however, the processor is MIPS-based, so one would have to compile a custom kernel around that architecture. i've never actually used that particular processor, so i'm not sure about any compatibility issue...

was that william gibson's neuromancer? actually, i'm going to do an acid test....find some ancient hardware and try to throw this OS on it. i'd ask for donations, but if you had donations, you'd probably just do it yourself. ^_^ i'll see what i can drum up at thrift shops and ebay. report back later.

this is about the smallest computer i've seen yet:

http://www.chippc.com/products/jackpc/index.asp

it's completely solid-state, with a 64MB DoC, so you could install puppy on it, and then flush mount it in your wall or desk. i don't know who's distributing it, but it's about $350.

For those of you who bought the e317 (it's a 5MP camera for under $100), there's an easy way to get it to work in Puppy: change the USB settings in the Setup menu to "Disk Drive." mount the drive in the Media Utility Tool. You can now view all your pictures! I posted this because I had so ...