[Novalug] new OS for old hdw

[Beartooth]

On Thu, 31 Jan 2008, I Beartooth wrote:
>
> 	I found some release on the bottom that may be meant to 
> let you get the whole drive out, but couldn't budge it. Otoh, I 
> did manage to remove and replace what must be the battery -- 
> and that seems to have done it. It booted to Windows.
>
> 	So I'll try again with Puppy, and see how that goes. If 
> it fails, too, I go download an ISO for dapper (Ubuntu 6.0?) 
> and burn that.

 	It's hard to tell what's happening. When the fool thing 
boots at all, it boots XP; and whenever it does anything, its 
imitation of cold molasses is so convincing I can never be sure 
when it's hung, when it's still churning, and when it's waiting 
-- even if I see anything on the screen.

 	It doesn't *seem* to be able to see my Puppy CD at all.

 	I have one machine downloading Knoppix, and another 
downloading Ubuntu 6.10; I'll burn the CDs, and try them.

 	It doesn't help that everything else is so slow. Somebody 
saw a news item saying two or three undersea cables had gotten 
cut, probably by ship anchors, between Italy and North Africa, 
and between India and somewhere. And of course all the traffic 
is being re-routed all over the world ....

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