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peterw

Had a quick look at the kernels in Puppy and it will be worth trying the latest Fatdog with a later kernel and Fatdog is one of the Puppy family. https://distro.ibiblio.org/fatdog/web/ By way of an explanation in Linux all the necessary drivers (thousands of them) are compiled in the kernel so that ...

peterw

Follow advice given above. Did read in another forum that the WiFi card is an Intel(R) Wireless-AC 9462 wifi card and will need a later kernel than the one in that Fossa. Not sure if that is the case with your laptop.

peterw

"Can you please tell me how can i add archived repos" Sorry, had a quick search of the Ubuntu repositories and decided I was not sure where they have moved them to and what they had done with them. If you do identify them then you can add repositories in the Puppy Package Manager (PPM). Ge...

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And I noticed Peabee has been making 32 bit variants: https://github.com/peabee/releases/releases/ Click Assets to see iso file. However, I have not yet tried them. Puppy is designed to run from a USB stick and it works fine with that. You can also do a frugal or a full install to a hard drive and I...

peterw

You could try the Slackware 15 Puppy which has a 32 bit version https://puppylinux-woof-ce.github.io/

peterw

Don't know if this helps. I multi-boot my2014 Chromebook with the BIOS converted with the MrChromebox utility script to be a UEFI laptop. I have increases the storage and generally I run a Distro such as Mint and add the extras to its bootloader: ### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/40_custom ### # This file provi...

peterw

mikesir. Your comments reminded me that many years ago I used a laptop with a Broadcom WiFi card and to get that working I used to copy the firmware from a Ubuntu laptop into the Puppy installation and it used to work from then on as the firmware was then in the save file.

peterw

I can't quite see why this would happen but some people have had problems with WiFi on that model of laptop with Windows 10 after upgrading from Windows 8.1 and at one reported success after updating the BIOS. So, whilst I can't see why upgrading the BIOS to the latest will affect matters it would n...

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When you say it hangs "during boot setting up network services" do you mean that it has never boots to the desktop or do you mean that after setting up the network with one of the network connection programmes it hangs trying to make the connection? I have never had a computer "hang&q...

peterw

Try making an entry in /etc/fstab. Explained here: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/fstab

peterw

The Puppies are booting on the Windows XP PC? If so you will see icons with the Windows XP installation and clicking on those icons will mount them so that you can navigate to the files you want to copy and you then click and drag the files to where you want them. Or am I missing something?

peterw

i agree that booting from a USB was always easy and remains so, as far as I know, using the Puppy tools. I especially like that I can easily do a UEFI/Legacy boot USB. However, whilst Ventoy always worked for Puppies I did get failures on some more recent ones and just put it down to whatever and wo...

peterw

It is a difficult situation. As I see it your older Brother having retired is entering a new phase of his life and searching for his role in it. Retiring is a big difference to someone who has always been important and needed for their decision making skills, etc. In some respects he is lonely. He n...

peterw

Try www.gmail.com or other web sites

peterw

Well there is a release of Slacko that should overcome the Wifi issue http://distro.ibiblio.org/puppylinux/puppy-s15pup/release-S15Pup-22.12.htm Edit. Downloaded the 32 bit version and with the kernel 5.10.156 the WiFi works on my laptops. It looks a lovely Distro and using the Puppy USB installer i...

peterw

Yes. It maybe possible to swap out kernels and Slacko 7 may work. These days people are not investing huge efforts into developing and maintaining 32 bit Distros as laptops with those CPUs are at least 12 years old. As time goes by useful 32 bit Distros will become rare. It will be best if users acc...

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It seems that there was a bug in the 32 bit Slacko 7 kernel that caused that atheros chip not to work with it. To find out this I googled the dmesg line, "New USB device found, idVendor=0cf3, idProduct=9271" which lead me to the Archlinux forum which often has useful information: https://b...

peterw

Lets see if Slacko recognises your USB device using "dmesg" which is a list of all the devices and actions that Slacko has taken to get working. So first of all open a terminal and type "dmesg" without the quotes. Unplug your USB WiFi device and plug it in again and again type &q...

peterw

Just to add that I came across an old Windows 7 DVD and had time to create an iso from it with the dd command. I added the created iso to the Ventoy USB stick prepared earlier and on an old 2009 Atom laptop it booted where I selected Windows 7 and it booted into the screen where I had to start selec...

peterw

When selecting preferences CUPs default is letter size and you need to set it to A4. Make sure that you cancel all the jobs before you try that setting.

peterw

OK. Your PC is not that old. You have to try something. Sometimes a USB make doesn't play ball and in cases such as yours it is wise to try another USB make. Repeat the process that I used to create the USB stick and see it that works. If it doesn't I am out of ideas.

peterw

Is your old PC 32 bit one or a 64 bit? ./VentoyGUI.x86_64 is for 64 bit PCs. There is a VentoyGUI.i386 for 32 bit PCs. If you followed my example I think Ventoy will sort itself out and the default is that secure boot is disabled.

peterw

Not sure what you are doing but just so that I can see if there is anything going on with newer versions of Ventoy than what I have used in the past I downloaded the latest ventoy-1.0.82 and extracted it. I read the README in the extracted directory and opening a terminal in the extracted directory ...

peterw

Have you got your iso's in sdc1? By the way what is on sdb?

peterw

Just been trying my Ventoy USB stick in various 32 bit laptops. On a 2009 Acer Aspire one I got the full list of iso's but it quickly changed to only the first item on the list without my intervention and that is near as I have got to your case. I have looked a bit more at my Ventoy USB stick and I ...

peterw

If you prepared the Ventoy USB stick then just copy your iso's to the large exfat partition and then safely remove USB stick. Pop the Ventoy USB stick into the PC that you want to do the installation on and select that to boot from.

peterw

With Linux you can download a Windows iso and when you do so you get the choice of which version you want. (Windows home or Pro). You select the one you have a licence for. To answer the question, as recommended above Ventoy will work with a Windows iso and it will boot from either a PC with Legacy ...

peterw

USB For initially creating a bootable USB with as many iso's as you can fit on it (including Puppies) then Ventoy is the goto https://www.ventoy.net/en/index.html. You can prepare Ventoy on either a Windows or a Linux PC - just follow the instructions. Ventoy will also work with Legacy or UEFI BIOS ...

peterw

In the kernel line of the boot menu after the Puppy reference add "mem=1950" without the quotes. It will use this to boot but will use the full RAM when booted as I understand it.

peterw

Thanks. Will give Fatdog a go and report back.

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