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ehh, less of "not doing right", more of "making bad decision" type of deal...it shall pass, eventually

it's just that little phrase, something about the words "sometimes", "rain", and "pours"....

 

Yeah, no kidding. Up at 4 and home at 4 then dealing with daughter and dog... exhausted!

so sorry to hear that....

 

Another good day to camp out at the mailbox :happy108 I got a razor

 

Welll I guess nobody cares I got a new razor. I wasn't gonna let any of you use it anyway :taunt002

 

W00T!!!
toys in the mail is always nice

dang girl, gimme a second....this is being a long, screwed-up day

 

Sorry.. I have been busy fighting an old lap top... I have xubuntu working on it with wireless network.. but slow. So what did you get???


I thought about Puppy, dowloaded the latest production release and ran it from the CD. It has the speed I need. However, I don't want to have to install the wireless drivers every time I boot the lap top. So, I installed it on a partition. It won't boot through GRUB. Grub messed things up where I couldn't even get xubuntu to boot. That is fixed now.. but I still get lines of lines of errors on Puppy...

I don't like to go to bed until I solve a problem (otherwise, I will just lay in bed thinking about it anyway...) but I am stumped... line after line of

"udevd[904]: delete_path: rmdir(/dev/.udev/queue) failed: Stale NFS file handle"

Yes, the partition was created, sized, and formatted before installation..

I am guessing I just need to install again... however, I have been up 20 hours and need to be up and shaving in 4. So I give... for now. Any pupsters know what I missed? (never figured it out, but after removing a partition and starting over it worked fine)

 

Morning....

Well 3 hours of sleep and still foggy on the puppy issue....

 

OK... sounds good to me.

Puppy issue solved... I think... I just got rid of the xubuntu partition and re-installed on a fresh combined partition. Looks like it is happy now.,

 

*yawn* G'morning everybody

 

Justin, I know Micah deals in Puppy often. He might be able to answer any questions. He's really swamped at work this week with all the demands by the returning teachers and administration (myself included, but I think he's finished with me for a while I hope).

Anyway, it's a busy week for me too, so I'll see you later and have a great day.

 

I wouldn't have tried Puppy if Micah hadn't mentioned it during the summer. However, I have the problem worked out. After I redid the partition and made only 1 linux installation (alongside the school system's Win 95) on the drive it was fine. All of this just so that I could have a laptop with net access at school (to type/distribute notes and files at team/department meetings) without having to bring my own all the time. For what it is worth, Puppy is now working much better than Xubuntu was... Puppy is much faster on this old thing. So I have no problem with scrubbing Xubuntu in order to load Puppy. And before Jim or Micah points it out - yes, I could just have run Puppy off of a CD; however, I am borrowing the CD drive and this old laptop won't boot to a USB and the floppy drive fails. So it needed to be a hard drive installation.

Time to chug down the last of the coffee and get ready for the students coming in.

 

well, I would typically only recommend running OS off the CD to test it out and see what you think, I would never recommend doing all the time, as it's much slower, you can't update, and it can be a pain saving files...but good job!

I will say, though, that on this laptop on which I'm typing, I have WinXP, Ubuntu, and Puppy all booting from GRUB, so I'm not sure why your Puppy wasn't playing nicely with his GRUB before (hahaha, I kill me :happy097)
perhaps my hardware is newer?
I'm just a Linux hobbier, not an expert, unfortunately

 

Good Morning everyone! Off to a good morning with an excellent shave today. It's almost unfortunate that I have nothing that needs to be done today because I'm completely full of energy.

 

I dunno... I'm a T2. What are you? :happy102


Honestly, this is probably due to age of the laptop. This is a Windows 95 laptop with only 96 meg of ram.

Same here... It scared me how many Unix commands I have forgotten from college. On the other hands, ps -ux, kill -9 PID#, and rm -r and completely ingrained. Makes me wonder how many abandoned processes I had to kill when I was a young 'un. (Being in computer programming with machine language at the time - probably a LOT)

 

G'morning all.
I just dragged myself out of bed a little while ago.
I have a bit of a headache and I'm still a bit fuzzy, but I think that's a sign that I had a nice birthday celebration last night. :happy102

Ow...
I need coffee..

 

I was going to suggest you do a "frugal install" where you just put the config files on your harddrive, you don't even need a separate partition to do that... just set aside about a 4gig chunk for a single file on your windows partition and go to town... but since you said the cd drive is borrowed, that makes things totally different.

Actually, I'm pretty sure that under certain conditions (cdrw, etc) you can update and save with puppy!

 

Feeling like an expansion team?

 

Dude, your birthday was 2 days ago. How much did you party? :happy102





Just kidding...Its only Saturday... :happy102 Glad to hear that you had a good day/night.