Greetings. After a shakey start, Puppy is alive and well in Wellington New Zealand. 2.17 recognises the soft modem (see previous post on topic) and booting is sorted (ditto). Having heaps of fun, but would like to move away from reliance on the XP box, so need a better mail program to start with. Can anyone describe in lay-terms how to obtain, install, and configure TBird? Version 0.8 is the resident on the WinBox and would be my choice. Have 7.4Gig of drive left to put things on under Puppy.
Thanks, John.
Thunderbird for 2.17 Puppy?
John, welcome - you can download a dot pup from MU's site - see here:
http://dotpups.de/dotpups/Internet/
There is a 1.5 version, this may auto update itself when run eg. I downloaded fireforx 2.0.0.1 anf when it is run it updates to 2.0.0.15 etc...
Good Luck
http://dotpups.de/dotpups/Internet/
There is a 1.5 version, this may auto update itself when run eg. I downloaded fireforx 2.0.0.1 anf when it is run it updates to 2.0.0.15 etc...
Good Luck
OK, went and got the suggested TBird, saved to Download directory, clicked and unzipped the little bone and clicked no to deleting the result. And nothing appears to have happened. Sorry to blaspheme, but no Windows-like install, no drive activity, no more check boxes, no trace. Restart showed nothing more either. What next?
Thanks, John.
Thanks, John.
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Rickrandom
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Thank you Mr. Random. Some of the Wika now makes sense of why 3.01 on-a-stick (USB) made a complete mess of TBird on XP when they caught sight of each other. My Newby status left me with no idea what had happened and what to do about it.
With 2.17 fully installed on another box beside the XP one and still containing a 10Gig d:/ drive of old and new Windows files that the newer XP box would like to get its hands on. I plugged in the ethernet cable between the two and experimentally opened set-up screens and thought about the opportunities to screw up here, and put it aside. Best sense would be to CD-R it all and copy over, but the XP machine does have a nice Lexmark X2470 printer/scanner/fax that Puppy coverts.......
There is no real need, well perhaps a medium-sized need, to synchronise the mail and browsers between the two. Presently XP collects the webpages and mail and Pup lives a separate life and views mail only. Input on improving this situation welcome.
Thanks.
With 2.17 fully installed on another box beside the XP one and still containing a 10Gig d:/ drive of old and new Windows files that the newer XP box would like to get its hands on. I plugged in the ethernet cable between the two and experimentally opened set-up screens and thought about the opportunities to screw up here, and put it aside. Best sense would be to CD-R it all and copy over, but the XP machine does have a nice Lexmark X2470 printer/scanner/fax that Puppy coverts.......
There is no real need, well perhaps a medium-sized need, to synchronise the mail and browsers between the two. Presently XP collects the webpages and mail and Pup lives a separate life and views mail only. Input on improving this situation welcome.
Thanks.
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telemetric_au
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