My problem with relativity is that I sometimes think I understand bits of the theory, but as soon as I start to think about the implications I run into problems. For example it seems true that a clock in a satellite must run at a different speed for SatNav to work. OK, this means that after a long t...

Well, I've just ordered the book, but I was certainly under the impression that no information could be transmitted faster than the speed of light.

[quote]if a sun is created, would the pull on the earth if the distance is the same, take 8 minutes to effect us?

I feel sure the answer to this question is YES

This thread has gone very quiet, I was hoping there would be loads of entries saying whether or not this procedure works ! I can see the sense of it but unfortunately I haven't yet succeeded in USB booting. I wonder whether it depends on the Puppy version in some inexplicable way ?

muggins.....you're a hero, thank you ever so much, I'd never have figured out how to do that without your help !

Accidentally removed the browser icon from the desktop, and don't know how to get it back !
Drag and drop from the menu doesn't work !

Strange, I just downloaded Buddapup Dingo from
www.puppylinux.ca/members/BuddaPup/ and it turned out to be the regular Dingo version.
OK...my mistake....you have to type
ctrl / alt / bkspce to drop out of X
then type xwin enlightenment_start
as mentioned earlier in this forum.

We are all exposed to light and use loads of electromagnetic stuff, but I've no idea how it works. OK, you can do your research and come up with equations using E and B and c, but to reduce it to its simplest level, what is the real difference between a space containing a magnetic (or electric) fiel...

Much as I like Puppy (Dingo), it does give me hassle. My motherboard is ASUS M2N-E SLI, which has onboard sound. I've tried everything I can think of but I get no sound and I can't get my HP OfficeJet G55 to print (I've tried loads of drivers). On the same computer I have Mepis, which is fully featu...

It seems it's a question of having the right kernel, but I'm not capable of knowing how to fix it at the moment.

An extremely helpful post ! The only thing still baffling me is this: I have a SATA disk and an IDE disk, both formatted the same way. Other distros I've experimented with recognise both discs, but Puppy does not see the SATA.
Anyone got an idea why this is ?

I got into a complete muddle, so I re-formatted the disc with three ext 3 partitions plus swap, installed 2.16 on hda1 and a MBR Grub, and now it boots from hdd and does everything I want to do (for the moment !) So thanks for your interest folks, and I'll keep my fingers crossed.

muggins.....my 2.16 works fine from the CD, but when I try to install it using the Universal Installer, it does not recognise the CD files. Is there some other way of installing from the CD, without using the Puppy Universal Installer ?
Thanks for your interest....

Not sure what vmlinuz does but it wasn't in the boot menu with grub, so I moved it so it looks like hda1 and 2 do.

Now the error message reads:
Kernel panic - not syncing: No init found. Try passing init = option to kernel

So what do i do next, folks ?

Hello muggins and Bruce....is this what you want to see ? # GRUB configuration file '/boot/grub/menu.lst'. # generated by 'grubconfig'. Tue May 22 07:50:58 2007 # # The backup copy of the MBR for drive '/dev/hda' is # here '/boot/grub/mbr.hda.3796'. You can restore it like this. # dd if=/boot/grub/m...

I have 1GB RAM and HD partitioned hda1,2,3 and swap. Partitions hda1 and 2 have 2.15CE working fine, loaded from an iso burned on a CD, I wanted to try 2.16 on hda3 and followed the same procedure as for 2.15, and although it works OK from the disc, and apparently loads on hda3, attempts to run it a...

Bruce....thank you ever so much.
I've now got the hd partitioned as you suggested, installed the files, so the system boots from the hd alone and sets up the internet connection etc.
So I'm quite pleased, and thank you again for your interest and help.

Well Bruce, I got tired of this problem so the hard disk is now formatted empty. It's nominally 30GB, and I need guidance (or pointing in the right direction) as to what type and size of partitions I should set up on it, and how to do it. I'd be happy with all Linux partitions. I know the informatio...

Bruce - thanks...
plenty of RAM (over 1 Gb)
The problem seems to be that my hd files (7 items) are on /dev/root/dev/hda1 which is a fat32 partition, but Grub won't load as it seems to want a Linux partition. It seems I need a bootloader that will work with fat32, or maybe I need a Linux partition.

I've managed to transfer puppy from the cd to the hard drive, and am using the grub loader. Although it works well, it won't load unless the cd is in place,it seems to need an input from the cd. I've set the BIOS to boot from the hard drive, so why do I still need to have the cd in place? Any sugges...