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by carbon_dragon
Thu Oct 14, 2021 8:20 pm
Forum: Beginners Help
Topic: How to install a .iso from cd to my hard drive?
Replies: 17
Views: 1453

Re: How to install a .iso from cd to my hard drive?

HP mini 2140 Intel Atom N270 1.6gHz. 133Mhz
Fujitsu Sata hard drive 5400rpm 160GB
I think I have 2MB ram, not positive (I'm reading the device information in this dist, but I may not be looking in the right place)
I was running Windows XP in the old days, but not now (now some version of puppy ...
by carbon_dragon
Thu Oct 14, 2021 6:58 pm
Forum: Beginners Help
Topic: How to install a .iso from cd to my hard drive?
Replies: 17
Views: 1453

Re: How to install a .iso from cd to my hard drive?

Ok, so my memory is shot but my fingers still remember a lot of shell commands. But there doesn't seem to be a vi editor. Is this true or do I just need to update my path somewhere?

by carbon_dragon
Thu Oct 14, 2021 6:06 pm
Forum: Beginners Help
Topic: How to install a .iso from cd to my hard drive?
Replies: 17
Views: 1453

Re: How to install a .iso from cd to my hard drive?

What does the icon look like? Is it on the desktop itself or on the bar on top?

Note I found a brown square that seemed to be the installer. I tried going through it, but it complained about my disk not being the optimum type. It brought up a repartitioner but there were no instructions and it wasn ...
by carbon_dragon
Thu Oct 14, 2021 2:33 pm
Forum: Beginners Help
Topic: How to install a .iso from cd to my hard drive?
Replies: 17
Views: 1453

How to install a .iso from cd to my hard drive?

I have a very old HP netbook, a 2140. It is an atom processor and I'm trying to see if I can find a linux distro that works reasonably well on them. Puppy Linux seemed to be a possibility so I downloaded the Ubuntu puppy 32 iso and got a live CD. I have nothing I need to save on my hard drive, I'm ...

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