I just tried puppy linux for the first time. Its super small so you can boot it up from a usb drive. So basically you can dedicate about 80 mb on your flash drive and carry a complete os with all your web bookmarks and shit around in your pocket. It works completely from ram so yo dont even need a hard drive in the computer.

whoa thats cool. ima have to check into that, im not too computer savvy. i would appreciate if you could post more info on it

you just download the cd, set your bios to boot up the cd then when your in puppy you go to setup and creat a boot from your usb flash drive

I had to make a small adjustment to the bootup file, that was pretty confusing

how does this work with grub?

how does this work with grub?

uh not sure, I have it booting form a usb drive so it will boot up before the harddrive that has grub on it, if theres no usb drive then it boots into grub like normal

if I'm on the road I can pop it in to a computer and have all my firefox bookmarks , some saved documents and a small selection of music ready so I can work no matter where I am at

another cool thing about it is that you can look at porn or this forum on someone elses computer or at work without leaving a trace behind since it loads up to memory and everything is completely erased when you log out

this sounds like all kinds of cool

I need a different file system for to make worky. :(

I need a different file system for to make worky. :(

what specifically is happening?

My file system on my laptop is NTFS I think it needs to be FAT to work.

My file system on my laptop is NTFS I think it needs to be FAT to work.

that cant be it pretty much everyone uses NTFS

whats happening when you try to boot up?

I put the disc in and nothing happens.I just see the files.

there should be some way to choose how you boot up into linux

is the cd booting up?

Nope.thats the problem.

are your bios configured properly to boot off the disc?

was the disc burned right?(probably was)

are other discs booting up just fine?

'splain bios.maybe that is prob.burn was correcto.other roms work.

'splain bios.maybe that is prob.burn was correcto.other roms work.

when you start up your comp you should be able to press delete or something to get into bios settings then you have to make sure they are set to boot up from cd before your hard drive

when you start up your comp you should be able to press delete or something to get into bios settings then you have to make sure they are set to boot up from cd before your hard drive

*tries that.

Sweet.I figured it out,even used it for a sec and logged in.the only prob i had was the screen res was huge,i'll have to fuck around with it some more.thanks ninja.:yes:

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Now i need to figure out how to boot from my flash drive.

It's nice to have options.this will be a great way for me to get used to linux.

It's nice to have options.this will be a great way for me to get used to linux.

yeah its alot of fun to play around with, its not really practical for alot of things yet but puppy is an example of something Linux is perfect for

puppy linux does indeed rock pretty hard. not much bigger than damn small linux. damn small is still the ultra tiny distro of choice for me though, especially on really old systems.