[CS-FSLUG] Laptop and Linux - what to do?

[dmc]

> In fact, there is a swedish puppylinux, and I have studied it a little 
> bit. Some questions are coming up, perhaps some more elementary than 
> others, but I will put them on the line (or online)
> 1. If I will install Puppy, it will replace Fedora Core5, which after 
> all these updates is functioning with both Bibletime and Gnomesword. BUT 
> every time I have tried to make this replacement I get problems with 
> GRUB. I can't get any OS, neither XP or Linux. What is happening then?

Are you installing Puppy 2.13 or some other version?

Have you looked at the dual-boot instructions on the
Puppy web site (the Forum archives and the Wiki) for
loading Puppy along with XP and/or Fedora Core 5?

There are some eccentricities of XP and GRUB that
require some effort to get them to play nicely via
GRUB.  Sometimes you have to manually tweak GRUB.

I know there is an instruction on the Puppy Forum
for this because I had started to do Puppy and Win98se
on a desktop here but got distracted and have not yet
returned to that project.

> 2. Puppy has got QTParted and GParted, and a special GRUBloader. I have 
> understood it like this: I have to format the partition with Fedora to 
> an ext3 (or ext2). SWAP already exists. How do I write grub.conf with 
> Puppy and XP? Or is it autom. done?

It may be automated with Puppy 2.13, I know they have been
working on that.

I believe that XP has to be loaded first, then Linux because
XP (all MS products) and finicky and do not play well with
others.

> 3. Puppy - is it some basic distro "deep inside"? If I will download a 
> program, e.g. browser Opera, shall I go for deb, rpm, or ...?

Puppy is the standard Linux kernel to which they
have added some things, always trying to keep them
small, efficient, user-friendly, and reliable.

I am a long long long way short of an expert with
Puppy so I would encourage you to create a free
account on the Puppy Forum because almost everyone
there is more knowledeable than am I!  :-)

I just noticed that I have been driving them crazy
with my questions and wild ideas for about 2 years
now!

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Respectfully,  David
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Minister of Discipleship & Education
First Baptist Church of Spring Hill, FL
Personal Site: http://bibleseven.com
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