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When installing Puppy Linux, go frugal, not traditional

Story: Puppy Linux 4.3 - Step by step installation with screenshotsTotal Replies: 0
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Steven_Rosenber

Oct 08, 2009
3:41 PM EDT 		Puppy Linux is meant to be run from live CD, but you can also easily install the distro on a bootable USB drive or on your main hard drive.

Like the person in this tutorial, I've also done "traditional" installs of Puppy, but for an old computer on which Puppy is going to be the primary OS and on which you either don't want to oot from CD every time, I think the "frugal" install is better.

The frugal install puts only a few files on your hard drive, and by replacing the relevant files, you can easily upgrade your Puppy installation to the latest version.

Details: http://puppylinux.com/hard-puppy.htm

Here's what's in the latest Puppy release (4.3):

http://puppylinux.com/download/release-4.3.htm

Like the author, I'm running more than a couple boxes with low RAM and slow CPU (144 MB with 233 MHz Pentium II, 256 MB with 500 MHz VIA C3 Samuel).

Both of these are running Debian Lenny at the moment, but I plan for the VIA box to have swappable CF card hard drives and have one of those run Puppy.

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