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Post by alexham36 on Dec 12, 2011 16:44:16 GMT
A small problem, Mikkh. I have to Add a Printer each time I use Puppy Linux DVD. I cannot save the settings. Get a message that the DVD is mounted in "read only", but I am able to same documents from word processor, pictures etc.
Can you help?
Thanks,
Alex
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Post by alexham36 on Dec 13, 2011 17:10:48 GMT
Further to the earlier email, I managed to solve the problem by burning a new DVD, which gave me "first boot options" to create a file for personal settings, which the first DVD did not give me.
Alex
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Post by mikkh on Dec 14, 2011 1:00:37 GMT
Yeah strange it misbehaved the first time, it's usually very reliable
Not impressed with the slacko variant though, can't seem to handle my 22" widescreen monitor
Puppy 5.28 seems the best one of the current releases
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Post by alexham36 on Dec 15, 2011 16:45:14 GMT
Mikkh, May I ask you for some guidance on Puppy to help me understand how it works. The ImageBurn does not offer the option to burn a multi-layer DVD, so as far as I can see I have 124MB on a 4.7GB DVD and nothing else is ever written to it. A waste of space.
Could I burn Puppy onto a Write only CD and run it from there.
Second question. I understand that my personal settings, emals, pictures and text files are saved onto a file resident on an USB memory stick. On first startup the software "asked" for a 512KB file to be created and that is what I did. But 512KB is nothing in terms of storage capacity, so what happens when it is all used up? Is it possible to transfer the data files from the "startup" file onto a CD?
Many thanks,
Alex
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Post by mikkh on Dec 16, 2011 18:00:52 GMT
Yes it should have gone on a CD really, when I saw you'd burned it to a DVD i assumed, you'd either ran out of blank CD's or use DVD's for everything anyway like I do a lot because the CD blanks are no cheaper usually or not significantly cheaper to make a difference.
The is an option to use rewritable DVD's but I've never tried it to be honest - the slow burning of data to them being the main reason.
The personal storage default is 512 MB which is plenty usually, it's mainly for installing extra programs and a few data files. Puppy can read and write to Windows partitions, so you can access existing data and save data there too, so there is no real need for a very large storage space
You can always install it as well and get access to much more storage
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