Thankyou to Barry Kauler for 4.1 retro kernal on 6 year old Toshiba notebook

After delighting in a 4.10 puppy 2 gig flash drive install legacy usb speed and limited pcmcia access because of a wireless card (preventing 2.0 usb cardbus co-operation) I tried a hard puppy.

puppy-4.10retro-k2.6.21.7-seamonkey (5df47ec44bde7ede3c52bfe2e670562) Hard Disk install with grub on mbr

CANADA: 2001 Toshiba Satellite ps183c-004k1 notebook 1 gig intel celeron coppermine, 384 meg ram(256 meg kingston upgrade), chipset Trident Video Accelerator Cyberblade XP Ai1, sound Ali M1535 chip,20 gig fujitsu (replacement) hd, Toshiba DVD ROM,floppy drive,intel 10/100 pci ethernet, on board lucent analog v90 modem, linksys wpc54g 2.4ghz pcmcia card, 2 usb legacy 1.1 ports, 13.3 inch lcd raster display native res 1024x768x60x16/32 16m colour,25 pin parallel port enhanced/bidirectional,serial,vga,s-video, ps/2, infrared port, headphone jack, microphone jack, 2 button alps touchpad, quicklaunch and startup buttons, led function indicators, us 85 key laptop keyboard with function key ( numberpad overlay etc), ascii character generation, dvd/audio controls.

Partition : gparted : hda1 1.2 gib linux swap formated

active hda2 4.86 gib ext2 4.1 puppy RETRO kernal

hda3 12.75 gib fat 32

Full install by puppy universal installer with grub simple default on mbr.

pppoe eth0, eth1(Wireless wpa-psk/tkip) 2WIRE gateway modem Bell Sympatico

After faultering attempts with 4.1 seamonkey, 4.0 buddha dingo, 4.1 retro seemed like the charm (relatively speaking ...considering the learning curve) to reinvigorate, simplify, unburden, and open source a built for xphome notebook(dozens of reinstalls of xp and trials of suse, fedora, ubuntu. xubuntu, kubuntu, vector, mepis,Dsl and even earlier versions of puppy).

THANKS FOR GOOD DOCUMENTATION I look foward to more reading, and experimenting with your remarkable legacy of compilations and community sites. It is one thing to create something of visionary importance but quite another to document it in such a way that others can understand.

jyoshan

One recurring issue on this laptop has been the inability of linux kernals to do a restart without hanging in blank screen, full shutdowns and hardware restarts have become the alternative.