Just to record this somewhere: On the Asus 1000HE, setting the BIOS booting priority to USB drive followed by hard drive produces the following behavior: Every alternate boot switches back and forth between HD and USB. Workaround is to press ESC once or twice after pressing start button. This produc...

Mike, Thanks, but it was previously suggested (somehow I got into several threads in this forum), and requires a very complex set of installation tools (tinybase.zip, utils.zip, and maybe others) and nonobvious steps that I'm not willing to try to figure out. If I'm not mistaken, it is based on Debi...

Sailor Enceladus, I'm a Windows-based software engineer, with additional Web design knowledge. I have also worked on the original Multics in a variant of PL/1. I was also fluent in C and C++ and worked on OS/8 and PDP-12 systems software. I have worked on mapping software, and other applications. My...

8Geee, I have not had complete success with any Linux on my Eee (Asus 1000HE). The funny thing is that Puppy Tahr Live is running perfectly on my wife's 1000HE computer, helping her to read her gmail and facebook faster and more reliably than did Windows XP. The only known differences are that she h...

It is getting rather late here, and I don't think it reasonable that you are asking me to edit a past posting in some detail. If you feel that I've been uncivil, just complain to the owner of this forum and ask him or her to remove the posting, with my approval. I would rather focus on actual techni...

Mike, I find myself agreeing with all your points. Still, it would be very nice to be able to run a live Linux on my 1000HE: an agile system with lots of interesting software to explore and a fast browser. But, given what I know now, I may have to content myself with Windows XP. It is so slow in bro...

Mike, I will try to answer your questions. "Why have you put the (save-file/folder?) on the hard drive?" I was getting the infamous error message "...SFS file not found". I tried many suggested edits to syslinux.cfg and none worked except moving the SFS file to the Windows C: dri...

Sailor, go ahead and delete anything you like. I don't see any delete button so I can't do it.

Thank you all for your help.

I was serious about trying out the distros you offered here at Puppy Linux. Now that I have reported bugs that prevented me from using them on my particular target computer you seem to be turning ugly, calling these interesting threads "a farce". I have not ignored any of your replies exce...

No. Apparently, moving the SFS file to C: disk only got around the "SFS file not found" bug. It did nothing to cure the "-24 MB (0 GB)" bug.

But it's okay, I feel close to getting EasyPeasy working, and it seems to be more compatible and have more interesting contents.

Sailor Enceladus, I appreciate the information that you have given me, but I do not appreciate your misstating what I have written. I never said that atahd did not work, or required many files on the HD. I don't have time for this, or I would list all the other ways in which you have not understood ...

Sailor Enceladus, I am sorry, but you are wrong. I learned the trick of moving just the SFS file to the C: drive from one person in this forum, and from a posting in another forum that I did not understand at the time. For most of the distros I have tried, when all the live files are on the USB driv...

None of my problems so far have been because I did something wrong. Just saying. Each distro has posed different problems (except for "sfs not found" which happens with most of them). Now with EasyPeasy I'm having trouble connecting to the internet through wireless. Makes no sense. When I ...

EasyPeasy, like all Ubuntus, requires extra space to be specified in the installer. Then it automatically saves persistent storage of customizations. An amazing system for the Asus 1000HE and probably lots of other small old computers.

I've given up on Slacko puppy, also on several others.

I found EasyPeasy, which really works right away, and perfectly. Since it comes from Ubuntu, you specify some storage size in the installer (I used 100 MB) so your live EasyPeasy has persistent storage automatically (no Save required).

'All FAT32 partitions are not created equal apparently." Oh, I already knew that. Also, and I'm not sure if this is the reason, USB drives have hidden memory containing programming to rotate the 4096-byte blocks through address translationi so that writing is done evenly across all the availabl...

"How much free space is on the USB flash drive?" 8 GB, a brand new USB drive. However, I just tried formatting a similar drive that Linux had made two partitions on and got a generic error message from Windows stating failure. Perhaps China is giving us marginal hardware. Or maybe putting ...

dancytron, didn't think of that. Excellent!

Is your name short for ondancetron? Just wondering. It's a medicine that I've used.

I've been trying to get various Linuxes to run on a 1000HE Asus (which is short for Pegasus) netbook computer. I found EasyPeasy on the Web (EasyPeasy-1.6.iso), and it is the most beautiful, sensible, and functional Linux I have ever seen. Most of it works live right away, including keyboard, mousep...

Sailor Enceladus, I thought I already said this earlier: I ran Unetbootin on the hard drive of my Windows 8.1 computer, not on the USB drive. The USB drive came from the manufacturer formatted in FAT32. I've never heard of a boot flag on a USB drive, so clearly I don't know how to set it. Hope this ...