[CS-FSLUG] mini-ITX boot problem

[Ron Thompson]

Hi Jonathan,

    I looked at Puppy Linux, and it looks very interesting with quite a bit of 
online help available.  In the short term I thought I'd look for a bootable 
USB drive that would allow me to do a net installation.  I didn't find that 
info on the Puppy site, not yet.

   Sabayon looks pretty good to for a desktop but my mini-ITX won't meet the 
minimum requirements as I'm using a pair of 4 Gb CF cards and a minimum 
installation requires 16 Gb.

   I'm going to set aside the project until the weekend, at which point I'll 
probably look for a net installable version.

   Thanks for your help.  I might replace my current desktop OS with Sabayon.

      Ron

On Thursday 02 April 2009 06:29, Jonathan E. Brickman wrote:
> Next thing I would try, is to boot Puppy Linux from CD.  This will tell
> fairly definitively whether that motherboard is standard enough for
> Linux, or whether it might be one of the proprietarized boards which
> often will crash anything, including the Windows installer.  Puppy 4.1.2
> is a 95M ISO, fairly quick and easy to download, burn, and boot from CD.
>
> If it boots Puppy from CD, I would jump to something with broader
> support for newest hardware, probably Sabayon based on recent
> experiences.  I have had all sorts of troubles with RedHat (which is
> CentOS) not supporting non-vanilla hardware without extensive tweaking
> (which frankly, I refuse to waste my time doing).
>
> But that motherboard might be a lot easier to run using a SATA CD-ROM.
> You could buy one and return it if it didn't help, if you can afford to
> do so.
>
> J.E.B.

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