Puppy on old hardware dedicated forum

[Idol Revolver]

Found this forum by chance.
It is supposedly about resurrecting old pc's with Puppy, Tinycore and Slitaz.
However, there were no posts at all in the whole forum. I have posted something, I encourage anyone who has fixed up a clunker with Puppy to post about it, as the silence in there is echoey. No idea whether it is new or just no-one knows about it.
EDIT: D'oh, forgot the link! www.oldpc.org

[rjbrewer]

Found this forum by chance.
It is supposedly about resurrecting old pc's with Puppy, Tinycore and Slitaz.
However, there were no posts at all in the whole forum. I have posted something, I encourage anyone who has fixed up a clunker with Puppy to post about it, as the silence in there is echoey. No idea whether it is new or just no-one knows about it.

That is not a forum; just a topic.

Puppy was designed to run on old hardware; basically this entire
forum is about that.
It is not a Slitaz or Tinycore forum.

If you have an old pc or laptop, just ask questions in "beginners"
for a start.

[Idol Revolver]

I cannot believe how epically I failed there. I forgot the link:
www.oldpc.org

[tjhigh]

hi all,
i've been using suse 9.0 prof on my thinkpad t-40 for years now.
very happy /successful. great custom scripts for my database analysis work.
but i have made it even more "specialized". and started using the old
t20 backup for mundane data entry work.
i can boot the t20 off cd puppy just fine. i can than access the usbstick
with all my ncurses console stuff that i use for data entry. but the vt console screens ask for login and password. i've tried user:puppy
password: spot but that doesnt work. i saw something on some forum someplace about that but cant find/remember.
my usbstick is bootable minimal suse that i use with ncurses screens for
data entry verifying. and it boots and works just fine for me on the t40.
the t20 has no capability in the bios for usb-boot. Could i possibly use the puppy cd to piggy-back boot the suse usbstick?? i have tried many variations of
boot: puppy pmedia="dev/sda1" at the boot prompt with no success so far.
Thanks for any links or help you might be able to point me to.
tj
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[technowomble]

Try:
Username ; puppy
Password: woof woof

[raffy]

Or
user root
password woofwoof
(no space in between)

Generally, Puppy does not ask for login, only in some situations like in CUPS install.

[technowomble]

Thanks for the correction raffy. I haven't had much time to spare for Puppy recently ( sorting some real life issues ) but Lupup 5.1 looks really good and I'm going to see if I can get it running on my ca. 2000 Dell laptop.

[Sage]

http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=59145

[gerry]

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[tjhigh]

Or
user root
password woofwoof
(no space in between)

Generally, Puppy does not ask for login, only in some situations like in CUPS install.

Thanks raffy puppy and spot didnt work with any rendition of woofwoof.
i'll try root. i did semi-solve my problem by adding a new vt (6) to my startup with autologin.
i burned the suse usbflash to dvd, and let puppy install after i relearned
to use "puppy pmedia=usbflash" at the boot prompt. cause puppy would
never deal with the suse lilo file. so no boot.
with puppy 3.01 on the usbflash i was able to bootstap boot from the
usbflash over a dozen times.........but not 2dozen times. it says is cant find
the pup_301.sfs file and turns the thumb drive off. which wont be recognised by any windows suse or the macs. and then a few days later
i'll plug it into the T20 and it will light up and i can mount it and see that
the "sfs" file it complains about is still there and in good condition with read permissions for everybody set. but then i try to boot from it and it
is dead again. wierd wonder if it is the drive being malfunctioning hardware. but i've done the above scenario about 6 times.....
what?
tj
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