Win XP fan soured on MS
I used to do all kinds of (mostly) work on computers from mainframes to Atari (not commodore), and then mainly Dos and Windows PCs. So I have not been an MS antagonist (but I was a BIG fan of Atari)....
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OK, Puppy was a quick job for liveUSB creator program, but it completely hung up in virtualbox – on either XP machine.
But…the program also places an .ISO image file in my download folder, so I had a hunch and found a new simple CD ISO burner program (freeisoburner), burned yet another CD (I have tried many), set BIOS to boot 1st from CD/DVD drive, restarted and…
I have now successfully booted my first Linux – Slacko Puppy 5.6. WhooHoo! Messed w/ it for a bit, but for all the trouble to set it so I can read it, I would prefer to have it savable on the hard drive in a partition.
So I got a tekki problem
After the initial spot where F11 key lets you set boot priority (DVD/CD or hard drive), my HP has a screen that pops up for a few secs giving the option to boot to windows on C: drive, or to the system recovery partition, the D: drive. I never got XP install disks w/ HP – I have done such recoveries w/ the gateway laptop.
If I create a partition on C:, and notice the next available drive letter open to me is K: (E-J are CD and USB removables), and put the puppy iso file in it, will the new K: partition automatically appear as a 3rd option for the computer to boot into in that screen that comes up for a few secs (I know how to change the duration in msconfig)?
Never done a partition for this type of need.
But…the program also places an .ISO image file in my download folder, so I had a hunch and found a new simple CD ISO burner program (freeisoburner), burned yet another CD (I have tried many), set BIOS to boot 1st from CD/DVD drive, restarted and…
I have now successfully booted my first Linux – Slacko Puppy 5.6. WhooHoo! Messed w/ it for a bit, but for all the trouble to set it so I can read it, I would prefer to have it savable on the hard drive in a partition.
So I got a tekki problem
After the initial spot where F11 key lets you set boot priority (DVD/CD or hard drive), my HP has a screen that pops up for a few secs giving the option to boot to windows on C: drive, or to the system recovery partition, the D: drive. I never got XP install disks w/ HP – I have done such recoveries w/ the gateway laptop.
If I create a partition on C:, and notice the next available drive letter open to me is K: (E-J are CD and USB removables), and put the puppy iso file in it, will the new K: partition automatically appear as a 3rd option for the computer to boot into in that screen that comes up for a few secs (I know how to change the duration in msconfig)?
Never done a partition for this type of need.
