So, I wanted to d/l and burn a copy of the newest Ubuntu, 7,10 “Gutsy Gibbon” but only had an old Win2K (with, it must be noted, the best and fastest DVD-RW/CD-RW drive and a respectable–for Win2K–512 MB memory, etc.) comp and another old comp running Puppy Linux booted. Wht to do?
Let’s see, use the comp with the fastest CDRW speed, plenty of physical memory and a relatively capable CD writing software or…
Use the comp with less memory and whatever came with the Puppy Linux CD.
Keep in mind, the only apps “installed” on the Puppy Linux box are those that came bundled with the less than 100MB FULL version of Puppy (oh, and Opera, which I added), and all the apps I run in a Puppy session–INCLUDING the OS are all loaded into memory/swap file off a CD on booting, so the built-in CD writing software is necessarily a teensy lil program,
I went with d/l-ing the latest Ybuntu distro and then burning the ISO file on the Puppy box. The builtin app–ingeniously named, cdrecord–just automagically recognizes the format of whatever one is burning (in this case, an ISO file) and burns it in the proper manner. Have to jump through twice as many (at least) hoops using the Win2K machine.
Simple, fast, easy-peasy. Just a joy to work with.
And after I reboot and do a fresh install of Ubuntu “Gutsy Gibbon” on that machine? No problem. Just save the pup.sys file to USB key and when I next want to boot Puppy on that machine, I can have all of my customization on that USB key.
As I said, what’s not to like?
🙂
Now, if only I could get Encore (music transcription software) to run under WINE on one of these Linux installs…
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