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T.T.

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Jan 15, 2011, 3:41:21 PM1/15/11
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I am having another attempt at Linux.
I have used Puppy to retrieve data from several local Windows computers
whose HDDs have failed, and I am impressed.
Over the years I have tried various flavours of Linux and never had complete
success. I keep hoping to install a minimum Linux onto one or more old
laptops; enough to browse, email, and do some word-processing. I now have a
CD with two versions of Puppy (I think). It takes longer to boot than XP
does and seems to hang with a frozen cursor. This is on a desktop.
Is there somewhere I can read and perhaps download a simple set of
instructions for installing Puppy? Can Puppy be loaded onto a laptop's HDD
as the only operating system so as to boot quickly? Most sites that I have
visited seem to demand much more day-to-day knowledge of Linux in order to
understand them than I have.


Andrew

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Jan 16, 2011, 6:36:30 PM1/16/11
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Try http://puppylinux.org/main/Overview%20and%20Getting%20Started.htm

atec77

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Jan 17, 2011, 1:22:22 AM1/17/11
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For winblows user I find mephis makes the transition equatable

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Geoff Bailey

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Jan 20, 2011, 8:39:59 AM1/20/11
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From: "T.T." <ton...@bigpond.com>
Sent: Sunday, January 16, 2011 7:41 AM
Newsgroups: aus.computers.linux
Subject: Puppy

> I am having another attempt at Linux.
> I have used Puppy to retrieve data from several local Windows computers
> whose HDDs have failed, and I am impressed.
> Over the years I have tried various flavours of Linux and never had
> complete success. I keep hoping to install a minimum Linux onto one or
> more old laptops; enough to browse, email, and do some word-processing. I
> now have a CD with two versions of Puppy (I think).

No you don't.


>
It takes longer to boot than XP
> does and seems to hang with a frozen cursor. This is on a desktop.
> Is there somewhere I can read and perhaps download a simple set of
> instructions for installing Puppy?

Yes.


>Can Puppy be loaded onto a laptop's HDD as the only operating system so as
>to boot quickly?

Yes.


> Most sites that I have visited seem to demand much more day-to-day
> knowledge of Linux in order to understand them than I have.
>
>

Obviously.


T.T.

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Jan 20, 2011, 5:27:12 PM1/20/11
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"Geoff Bailey" <bai...@aol.com> wrote in message
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Thank you.
I feel better now.


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