Hello all!

I'm just so damned proud. I managed (after a few unsuccessful trials) to get Puppy 4.0 onto a 512 MB SanDisk Cruiser mini. I did the following:

Using Gparted, I made a 128 Mb FAT16 primary partition, and made the rest ext2.

I then used the "buggy don't use" combo option of the Universal Installer.

I pointed the installer to my mounted Puppy 4.0 cd.

I rebooted.

I configured networking

I posted this blog entry.

Hey.  I just took a partition on my harddrive that was being used for temp space for dvd iso files when copying dvds using K3B in Mandriva.  I think that since Puppy is so much faster, leaner, and smaller, I may just dump my Mandriva partition totally.  I've gotten dvds to play in Puppy, and if I can copy a dvd with the dog, I think that may settle it.

It would be nice if I wasn't root all the time.  Maybe I'll fiddle with that soon.

Dan

PS - Remember, e^i*π+1=0

I just, for a lark, dropped Puppy 4.0 into my Compaq Armada 110 CD-ROM
drive, and plugged in a 802.11g PCMCIA NetGear card, just to see what
would happen. I'm currently in a hotel that has "hi-speed" WiFi. Turns
out that it's just 802.11b, not *g, so, anyway...

The pup saw everything, and started flawlessly. I was able to
configure my hotel's WiFi with ssid and WEP key, and BAM! I'm here,
typing to you. I bet the pup would run on a 80286, with dual 5.25
floppies.

So now that there is a distro that is

... what a gift here below.  "No One Knows," by Queens of the Stone Age.  From Songs for the Deaf.  I just watched it on YouTube.  With Puppy.  And it was blindingly fast!  Right out of the box.  If this distro melted my harddrive, fried my cpu, and took away my birthday, it would still be the best distro I've ever touched.

I won't be able to shut up about this distro, so everyone just hang on to your hats - it's gonna be a bumpy blog! 

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