<div>HI Thanks for the reply</div>
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<div>well last night i got home - fired the laptop up and decided to go with puppy linux and i must say its runs fantastic - the only problem i had was the sound but managed to sort that in the end</div>
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<div>cheers</div>
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<div>Stuart<br><br> </div>
<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 11/28/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Richard Smedley</b> <<a href="mailto:smedley358@btinternet.com">smedley358@btinternet.com</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">On Tuesday 28 November 2006 15:31, Stuart Beeson wrote:<br>> thanks for the reply - well it hasnt got a ethernet built into it - but i
<br>> can download from the internet (using WIFI) so maybe i would be looking at<br>> downloading a Linux Image - the machine isnt at all fast - its only got<br>> 96MB Ram and Pentium 2 - 333<br><br>This is plenty fast enough for all but about 60 of the 18,000 apps
<br>that ship with Debian GNU/Linux :-)<br>In fact OOo will still run with this (on top of PWM or similar), it just<br>won't be too snappy :-/<br><br>> - i just want rid of windows and want somthing<br>> more snazzy - becuase of the old BIOS on the Laptop it wont boot from
<br>> network and it also wont boot from USB (tried)<br><br>How about you tell us which laptop it is, then there may be<br>someone on the list who has already installed GNU on one<br>and can pass on your experience (my eldest daughter has
<br>a P333 96MB machine - an IBM TP570). Or, failing that, help<br>you find appropriate advice :)<br><br>> - isnt there a way i can do<br>> it by downloading an Image and doing it through DOS?<br><br>Yes - as a last resort. Let's try other ways first.
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