[Ham-Computers] Re: Puppy Linux hard drive install problem

[fkamp at comcast.net]

doc wrote:
> 
> > First, don't you have a larger harddrive to work with?
> > Linux is better on at least a 2 gig drive, but more is better.
> 
> Not at all true with Puppy Linux.  It is designed to run from
> RAM and will run with no HDD at all.
> 
> It is a 50MB Linux distro.  If we are discussing the major
> commercial Linux distros then you are talking major bloat and
> thus the need for larger HDD's.

Major bloat, maybe.  I found that a 6gig hard
drive will do well running Mandrake 8.2.  Trouble
is, it is slooow.  Much slower than the puppy on
the less capable machine I am using for it.

> 
> 256M of RAM works really well with Puppy, though any distro
> generally runs better/faster with more RAM.

I thought all it needed was 128 to be happy and it
would not object to being run off HD with as
little as 64meg ram.  Guess I am going to find
out.

Lots of ram is always a good thing.  Applications
that wont run without lots of ram have always been
a bad thing.  Okay, memory is cheap, but only if
you are pricing the lower end stuff.  256meg is
not lower end. Cost is always a factor, but it
becomes the main factor unless you have government
funding.

> 
> BTW:  Just got Thingamablog running under Puppy.  It only
> needs Java and not several libraries with the predictable
> troubles as libraries are updated, etc.

I have seen you refer to the Thing.... before. 
What is it?

Regards,
Frank Kamp
K5DKZ