On Wed, Mar 25, 2020, at 3:30 AM, dmccunney wrote: > On Mon, Mar 23, 2020 at 11:52 PM <mich...@robinson-west.com> wrote: > > <snip> > >... Puppy Linux is designed for older, less powerful hardware. (A poster > on the Puppy forums described creating a dedicated media server based > on Puppy that ran on an ancient Toshiba laptop with *16MB* RAM. He > had to create the system image on a more powerful machine, write it to > a hard drive, and swap the HD into the Toshiba to boot and run it, but > it worked once he did.) > That was me :) in one of my alter-egos http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=48214
Mind - although I still have both 430CDS' in storage for uncompleted project updates, I had to wave the white flag on productively using Puppy for kids use, on those particular specs. What worked best in it was a 2GB sd-card with FreeDOS 1.1 configured to boot up Ronald Blankendaal's "Access" most excellent gui environment (He of DosBOXGameLauncher fame, here http://members.quicknet.nl/blankendaalr/dbgl/). From there, my kids could immediately access any one of dozens of top-rated classic DOS games I had squirrelled away from a range of "abandonware" sites. For a 16MB edo-dram laptop it would boot in about 11 seconds. *snap!* My *intention* was to have imaged a distro-like "FreeDOS4Kids" that could be copied to a flash card and via an ATA-adapter replacing the ancient HDD. By using such an image route you could circumvent some native installation issues (but probably replace them with other 'gotchas'). Life has overrun me on that particular escapade however. Thanks for the erudite first-hand histories in this thread guys - fascinating reading, Cheers :) _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
