Trying Out Linux For the First Time

[WillyW]

Well I didnt get my file from there it was some random FTP thing.

Ah.
Should I scare you now, and say that random FTP thing downloaded files might erase your whole hard drive?    

Beware of random FTP things.

Thanks For link. Also thank you for all your help.

No big deal.

Hang in there.

[M1CH431]

ALso, the one I had was 2.12 the one im downloading now is 2.13 so maybe that'll help.

[WillyW]

Mine Has those files and another one called INITRD

Edit: Never mind I see that was in your list.

I hope SilentAssasin, or somebody else jumps in here now.   Because it sounds like you have burned a bootable CD.   If you reported back that you found one ~80MB file - be it a rar or iso file -  then we'd know you did not have a bootable CD for sure.

hmmm.

well....  if it was me,  I'd start over.   Get the .iso file right from the Puppy site.
Burn it again.   See what happens.
If it works,  then the first one becomes a nice shiny coaster.  

[WillyW]

ALso, the one I had was 2.12 the one im downloading now is 2.13 so maybe that'll help.

It just might.  

The first one I d/l'd, and it was from the Puppy site, was an older version -  I think I saw that it included Firefox or something...   anyway, I thought that was the one for me.

It wouldn't find my network interface card.

Somebody advised me to get the latest.
At the time, it was 2.12.

Presto!   it found my nic.  

The moral of the story:   Maybe you too will do better with the newest, latest, nicest, whiz-bang version.    

How much of it have you got now?

[M1CH431]

52 percent. Do you think it will find my wireless network adapter or can linux not use Wireless?

[M1CH431]

I think I know why It didnt work. My wireless connection has been randomly dieing today off and on, and it just happened again. When It happened the file was saved, as if it was finished downloading. So I think that is the reason why the first one I tried didnt work because it probably lost connection while downloading and it just saved the file.

[WillyW]

52 percent. Do you think it will find my wireless network adapter or can linux not use Wireless?

I'm not qualified to really answer that.

I can tell you that, in some of those forums that I posted links for,  that I see a LOT of messages from people, asking for help with wireless.  
That is not a good sign for you, I'm afraid.

Then again,  you are d/l'ing the newest version.   Maybe they worked on that.... keep your fingers crossed.

I have to go for a bit.   Be back later.

[WillyW]

52 percent. Do you think it will find my wireless network adapter or can linux not use Wireless?

On the Puppy site, there are forums.   Check 'em out.   Maybe somebody there is already talking about the latest version and using it with wireless.

[WillyW]

I think I know why It didnt work. My wireless connection has been randomly dieing today off and on, and it just happened again. When It happened the file was saved, as if it was finished downloading. So I think that is the reason why the first one I tried didnt work because it probably lost connection while downloading and it just saved the file.

Could be.

I'm sorry that I can't tell you how to use that md5sum info.

The info is out there though.
I think that is what you need to do,  especially if you have a sketchy connection -  verify that your download is good before you burn it.

See if you can hunt up the procedure to verify, using md5sum.

be back later

[M1CH431]

Update: Finished Downloading 2.13. Going to burn it to disc now.

[WillyW]

Update: Finished Downloading 2.13. Going to burn it to disc now.

 

[M1CH431]

It worked! And as an added bonus it found my wireless network card, and my wireless connection!!!!! All I need to do is fiddle around with some settings. Thank you very,very Much Willy!!!!!!

[WillyW]

It worked! And as an added bonus it found my wireless network card, and my wireless connection!!!!!

Excellent!
Welcome to linux.
You are never going to have any free time ever again,  it will all go to absorbing info about your new os.  
If I had a machine to devote to it right now,  I would.

All I need to do is fiddle around with some settings.

See?  
You'll never finish fiddling around.   It is just too good to leave alone.

Thank you very,very Much Willy!!!!!!

But all I did was cheerlead from the sidelines.   You did it all.    


Now...  are you going to try some other distros of Live CDs?   maybe not right away, but eventually?     I hope you do.    

And, are you using it right now?   To read and post here?

[M1CH431]

Im not using it to read and post here. Yet.  I'm definetly going to try other linux distros. But not until I master Puppy Linux

[WillyW]

Im not using it to read and post here. Yet.

ah... c'mon....     <g>

I'm definetly going to try other linux distros. But not until I master Puppy Linux

Please don't hold yourself to that.   Even though Puppy is 'small', there is still a lot to it, and it could take a while to master it.  
Besides,  whatever you explore on another version might help you with Puppy.

If you are concerned about creating confusion,  I can understand that.   I was, but so far, what little I've explored,  I've been ok.

Btw - and here is an example -   do you know yet if your version of Puppy has the man pages?     Mine didn't.    But Slax did.
Exit to the command line, or open a console window, and do
man ls
or
man modprobe
or
man man
or man <any command here>

Does it respond with some sort of error message, or a manual page?