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by sparkie
Mon 30 Dec 2013, 04:58
Forum: Puppy Derivatives
Topic: SlimPup 3.8
Replies: 34
Views: 35675

I know this is a bit down the road from the original post but I have just gotten my internet back up after moving last year. I'm trying to catch up on things in Puppyville, a few deriv's and such, and have been checking out SlimPup today. I used Yumi to make a USB boot via Syslinux. I have done this...
by sparkie
Fri 06 Apr 2012, 04:32
Forum: Puppy Derivatives
Topic: Did a Derivative bring you to Puppy? Why Derivatives Matter
Replies: 9
Views: 11341

In the late '90s I had a subscription to MaximumPC. They sent a bonus issue that had a 3-disc set of Mandrake. I installed it on an old AMD K7 550 with 512mb ram and a 4.3 HD. It booted slowly, ran fair and crashed once in the week I had it installed. This got me started with Linux. During a search ...
by sparkie
Tue 03 Apr 2012, 05:51
Forum: Puppy Derivatives
Topic: Snow Puppy 020 with more apps, fonts and themes
Replies: 678
Views: 300809

Thanks for the "How To" link. Read a bit of the thread and will read more in depth in the coming days. Good stuff there. Concerning my brother's infected computer, this is what I did: 1- Booted BitDefender boot disk. Found these bugs: variant.barys.244 variant.kazy.63155 variant.kazy.63553...
by sparkie
Sat 31 Mar 2012, 20:19
Forum: Puppy Derivatives
Topic: Snow Puppy 020 with more apps, fonts and themes
Replies: 678
Views: 300809

Hello pemasu... I just wanted to take a moment and tell you how fantastic Snow Puppy is, and to thank you for the work you have done! When I first dove into the Puppy world it was back when Fire Hydrant and PizzaPup was going on. Then came along Cielo, Stardust, TeenPup and some other greats...getti...
by sparkie
Sat 03 Dec 2011, 00:34
Forum: Puppy Power
Topic: Puppy Power Returns
Replies: 78
Views: 944744

I thought, "Nooo, this forum could not have been sucked up by some new time warp puppy pwidget thingy". I've been looking for it several times lately......SO GLAD IT'S BACK !!!!

A great big southern-fried "thankee", John, for all the hard work and stuff.
by sparkie
Mon 21 Nov 2011, 22:28
Forum: Puppy Derivatives
Topic: "Fire Hydrant 3.01 Retro Lite" 75.8/86MB .Optional Print/Vid
Replies: 26
Views: 27665

Just a quick note to say thanks, ttuuxxx, for Fire Hydrant !! The day I discovered Puppy Linux I DL'd Inferno and Pizza. These two are the ones that got my feet...er, paws...wet. I would swap them out and run them for days at a time on my old TigerMax Athy 950 with 512 of ram and a 13 gig HD. Ahh......
by sparkie
Sun 16 Oct 2011, 16:06
Forum: Beginners Help ( Start Here)
Topic: Error mounting sr0 (dvd drive)
Replies: 2
Views: 2316

Same problem !!

Have to go back to Windows just to transfer CD/DVD archived files to a new backup drive.

....and that just ain't right!

Gotta be a workaround somewheres ?