平淡生活

I have tried to install Puppy Linux on my ancient AMD-K6 machine for over one week and finally got it done with the latest Puppy 2.01 release!

When I first tried to install Puppy Linux 2.0 last week, I had problem with GRUB bootloader. After re-formating/re-installing for a couple of times, Puppy couldn't see my hard disk partitions any more. It always showed one big hard disk (superfloppy) without any partitions, although I could saw those partitions with cfdisk I tried to re-partition the hard disk with cfdisk, fdisk in DOS and bootstar but without any success.

I gave it up and tried to install Ubuntu on my K6. Unfortunately it's too slow to install/run Ubuntu.

Today I learned that Puppy Linux 2.01 was released. I downloaded it and tried the Option 2 installation again and this time it goes as smooth as it's supposed to be. In half an hour, I have Puppy running happily on my K6 machine! Then I installed Gcompris according to this guide. Tomorrow Bernice and Theresa can have their "new" toy to play with

So anyone having installation problem with Puppy Linux 2.0, please try 2.01.


P/s This was posted on Ubuntu 5.10 Breezy. SCIM still does work with Firefox 1.5. Might upgrade to Ubuntu 6.06 Dapper soon.