is choise pup available for beginners?

[rheya]

I'd like to give choisepup a try , but I wish to run it in live CD as usual.....
so I think I'll make a choisepup image on a virgin CD and then ?
I'd run it in my PC , then I'll save in mnt/home all the .sfs I wish to add and run some ( or all) of them if I like ....
please, tell me it's that easy.....
or not ?
hugs
rheya

[MU]

you boot from CD.
At start, you type:
puppy pfix=ram

This will load without your other savefile.
When you shutdown, you are offered to create a new savefile, and to give it a new name, like "choicepup".
When you boot from CD again (or from harddisk), you will get a small menu, where you can choose, which savefile you want to use.

To add several SFS, simply add them in the bootmanager in the menu.

Mark

[rheya]

thank you Mark,I did it and the few extra SFS I choised to add were ok, except firefox
I also notices that the mayority of the program is "virtually " present until you choise to add the SFS....
I discovered that with my portatil , the video card is xvesa ...and surprisingly my touchscree mouse worked, while in classical puppy 412 didn't.
thanks again
Rheya

[jrb]

Hi rheya,

Thanks for trying my ChoicePup.

My apologies for the firefox problem. I am not a firefox user so did not discover until today that there was a problem with ChoicePup-v2 and firefox, also with googleearth. I have corrected the problem and reuploaded v2.

You can do one of two things:

1. Go to /root (little house "file") and delete the .mozilla and .googleearth symlinks. This should be enough to get firefox and googleearth running. (must use xorg for googleearth.

2. Download choicepup-4.1.2-k2.6.25.16-v2.iso again and burn another disk.

You also might want to download firefox again. I've made a small change there too.

Sorry for the inconvenience, J

[rheya]

hi jrb,
thanks for explaining, but I prefer to see if I could " live " with the programs I could add easier before trying to "fix " the problems..
it seems nor audacity or firepup working ...
but I have a web browser, so it's enough...
what about skype ?
is there any possibility to add it ?
please, tell me I could ....
BTW : I'll try the programs , so no mistake will last..
I like choisepup so much

thanks in advance
hugs
rheya