[Dclug] Installing puppy on a 486

[Eric Maag]

Forget the 486, how about installing puppy on a badger?
http://www.strangehorizons.com/2004/20040405/badger.shtml

Sorry about the jocularity, someone sent me this and thought of this thread.

Eric


On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 1:05 PM, David Lesher <wb8foz at nrk.com> wrote:
> Speaking on Deep Background, the Press Secretary whispered:
>>
>> I think you can also install Puppy Linux as a bootable image on a USB
>> drive.  You should then be able to install Puppy either by using it as a
>> bootable drive, or by altering the USB drive configuration to appear as
>> though it is a (really large) floppy disk.  I should mention that I
>> haven't actually tried this--I'm not that fond of Puppy and haven't used
>> it for a several years.
>
> Given that the box has a floppy drive, and you can install from
> that, then boot from the HD....  Why is there so much concern
> over other approaches?
>
> Is there some problem I've missed?
>
>
>
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