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To: Jedi Master Pikachu

Hi jedi.

I am not sure. When Puppy linux begins booting up, it SHOULD give you a scrolling description of what drivers are loaded, and what pieces of hardware are functional. Not using PL, I can say that MEPIS is THE BEST as far as “just working” right out of the box. If you have an older machine (not TOO old, but anything within the last 4-5 years) MEPIS always “just works.” Now, If you have some really funky obscure “E machines got this really cool network card on closeout from Pakistan which needs these drivers” nic in your machine, it might NOT pick it up, but I have yet to use it when it did not just grab the stuff and load it up. When you d/l the iso file, then burn it to cd AS A CD IMAGE. It has been so long since I used Nero or the other programs (windows cd burner, too), that I can’t remember the exact commands, but you shoudl be able to scout around and find how to be sure you burn as an IMAGE and not a FILE. I use the linux stuff now (it is so much easier) and K3B is really idiot proof.


42 posted on 05/21/2007 3:59:36 PM PDT by DreamsofPolycarp (Ron Paul in '08)
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To: DreamsofPolycarp

Appreciated.


44 posted on 05/21/2007 4:15:38 PM PDT by Jedi Master Pikachu ( What is your take on Acts 15:20 (abstaining from blood) about eating meat? Could you freepmail?)
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To: DreamsofPolycarp

As for the FILE / IMAGE thing, the puppy site suggested a cd burner software which was downloaded. However, that software turns a file with a raw disc image into a DATA disc. Is that what is supposed to be done?


64 posted on 05/23/2007 10:12:10 AM PDT by Jedi Master Pikachu ( What is your take on Acts 15:20 (abstaining from blood) about eating meat? Could you freepmail?)
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