wilcal Posted February 13, 2006 Report Share Posted February 13, 2006 Specifically for older and/or low powered platforms Puppy continues to amaze me. I have successfully installed Puppy to the following Laptop using the Belkin FSD7010 PCMCIA WiFi adapter: Dell Insperon 7500 Model PPI Intel, Celeron 466Mhz 440BX Chipset 64MB DRAM 6.5GB HD 20VDC, 3.5A PS Belkin Wireless G PCMCIA F5D7010, BCMWL5.INF XP2K Driver Using the Ranish Partition manager http://www.ranish.com/part/ I split the HD into two partitions. First partition a 550MB Linux Swap drive, the second an ext partition. Upon booting using the Puppy Live-CD the install sees the swap drive and uses it properly. You do have the option to use the ext Linux partition for pup001 or an install. Puppy boots to a 640x480 screen and you are given the option to increase to 1024x760x16 and that will work nicely. You can then set up the Belkin FSD7010 PCMCIA adapter by installing Perl, activating ndiswrapper, mounting the Belkin WinBlows CD and installing the BCMWL5.INF driver to ndiswrapper, modprobe ndiswrapper and your on your way. I believe that this (very weak) Laptop originally came with WinBlows/98. Not having the original intall disk the user attempted to install WinBlows XP Pro into this box. It did install but complained about insufficient resources. Boot time from power up to a working desktop for this Laptop running XP is about 10 minutes. Once in a working desktop XP's time to bring up "Word" was another 10 minutes or so. Boot time for Puppy ( power up to a working desktop ) for this laptop using the above setup, and not installed to HD, is about 2 minutes. Once you get to a working desktop, under Puppy, the time to bring up Abiword http://www.abisource.com/ was right at about 11 seconds. Yes, eleven seconds. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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