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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.

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