Re: [Staffslug] Frustration!!!!
On 20/03/07, Kris Douglas <webbox.uk(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Some distros install but they dont like booting from cdrom, it
depends on
what devices are supported on the specific distro....it entirely depends.
Try and get a cd to install puppy ;)
On 20/03/07, Kevanf1 <kevanf1(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
*snipped*
so I decided to try loading the latest Puppy Linux. I love that
> distro :-) But it simply will not boot from the CD. First
thought
> was maybe it was a bad burn so I did another....nope, still nothing.
> I tried one of the CD's in another PC and bingo, it fired up
> beautifully so the download is fine. I'm puzzled about this because
> other live CD/DVD's work without a hitch. Next step is to try booting
> with a boot floppy....
>
Kris, that's exactly what I did do :-) see above from my original post.
Now, an update. The boot floppy works, yippee. However, I don't want
to have to mess about putting a boot floppy and CD into this PC every
time I boot it so I have tried to install to hard drive. Well, it
goes through all the bits and bobs and looks like it is doing
something... but it ain't :-( I have tried every little configuration
that Puppy gives you to install to hard drive and none work. Some
just don't do anything. You'll click on the accept this button (such
as for installing grub to the MBR) and it takes you back to the
desktop. No warning or error messages and the system doesn't hang.
So, now it's time to log all of this and post it onto the Puppy forums
and see if anybody else has come across this problem. I shall try to
install to another PC and if that works I'll just swap the drive over.
So, after all this I thought about giving Mepis a blast. Why are
there still distro's that are crap at setting up x-org? I get a
640X400 desktop and no option to make it any better. My preferred
desktop is 800X600. So, next question... any idea where the x-org
configuration file is hidden in Mepis anybody? Because it looks like
doing some manual CLI tweaking...
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