Best Lightweight Linux Distro & Optimization Tips for an EeePC 1005HA

[MikeWalsh]

@elitost :-

I also tried to register on the official Puppy Linux forum, but it asked me for Barry’s dog password.

To be honest, I have no idea what it is… Any hints?

Um...heh. AFAIK, from this Puppy Wikka page:-

https://wikka.puppylinux.com/About

.....Barry's wee Chihuahua was, quite simply, called "Puppy".

(We've had to start adding this 'Captcha'-type stuff to the registration process because we were getting overrun by bots...)

One word of advice, although it seems to have worked for you (and I can't entirely figure out why). Under normal circumstances, Etcher doesn't usually work for Puppy.....because it looks for, and expects to copy across a full Linux file-system. Puppy's file-system, as it exists in the 'root' partition, consists of a half-dozen highly-compressed SFS packages.....and Etcher doesn't know what to do with these.

Puppy's file-system doesn't even exist until after she's booted, at which point the SFS packages have by then been decompressed into the 'virtual' file-system in RAM!

Do be aware, the Puppy registration captcha won't necessarily ask you the same questions every time.....so the 'answer' I gave you may not even be relevant on another occasion.


Mike.

 

[MikeRocor]

Hi @MikeWalsh ,

Firstly, thanks a lot for your help! I really appreciate it.

I’m in France, so there’s only a one-hour time difference between us.

Following your advice, I downloaded BionicPup32 from this link:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/pb-gh-releases/files/BionicPup32_release/

I installed it on a 32GB USB stick using Balena Etcher (my main computer is a Mac – the devil’s machine, I know, but I like it! ).

I booted from the USB, and instead of landing on a black screen with white text from GRUB4DOS, I arrived directly at the boot menu.

I selected the first option, and everything went smoothly from there. I was able to set up the language, keyboard, and WiFi connection without any issues.

I also tried to register on the official Puppy Linux forum, but it asked me for Barry’s dog password.

To be honest, I have no idea what it is… Any hints?

Once I manage to join the forum, I’d like to ask how to best configure BionicPup32 to run alongside AntiX, which I have installed on my 160GB HDD.

Thanks again for your time and help!
Cheers,
Elitost

Not sure if it's relevant here but just a little tidbit about grub4dos: I haven't used it for a while so I'm a bit rusty on the details of what the errors might have looked like but grub4dos did not like ext4 even though it worked fine with ext2. That was the main reason I switched to grub2.

 

[Tomedi]

Have you tried Minimal GUI version of Sparky Linux? It's a lightweight Debian-based distro. Very easy to install and use.

 

[elitost]

Have you tried Minimal GUI version of Sparky Linux? It's a lightweight Debian-based distro. Very easy to install and use.

I will try

 

[kbzdkono]

@elitost :-



Um...heh. AFAIK, from this Puppy Wikka page:-

https://wikka.puppylinux.com/About

.....Barry's wee Chihuahua was, quite simply, called "Puppy".

(We've had to start adding this 'Captcha'-type stuff to the registration process because we were getting overrun by bots...)

One word of advice, although it seems to have worked for you (and I can't entirely figure out why). Under normal circumstances, Etcher doesn't usually work for Puppy.....because it looks for, and expects to copy across a full Linux file-system. Puppy's file-system, as it exists in the 'root' partition, consists of a half-dozen highly-compressed SFS packages.....and Etcher doesn't know what to do with these.

Puppy's file-system doesn't even exist until after she's booted, at which point the SFS packages have by then been decompressed into the 'virtual' file-system in RAM!

Do be aware, the Puppy registration captcha won't necessarily ask you the same questions every time.....so the 'answer' I gave you may not even be relevant on another occasion.


Mike.

Hi, I'm trying to create an account in the Puppy forum (https://forum.puppylinux.com/index.php) I've tried nearly 20 times and as long as I watched is always the same question: "Whаt wаs Bаггy's dоg's pаssword?"

I understand if the staff of that forum made the decision to add that Captcha because of... But, please I don't want to spam that forum. I only have some questions before trying to install NoblePup32

Could you give me that Captcha answer through a private message here?

Or if you prefer, could you answer me this questions here? (I doesn't matter how much time you take to answer, but please fulfill my request

-NoblePup32 since it's based on Debian (an Ubuntu) ,could we install 390Nvidia drivers? That's because it's difficult (perhaps impossible) to install 390 Nividia drivers on Operative Systems based on Bookworm distros

-Sometimes Linux OS's have the big issue that they don't recognize Wi-fi connections. Does NoblePup32 have the same problem? If that's true ,is there a wiki to install later TP Link wifi drivers?

-If you cannot use Balena Etcher ,is there other way to install NolblePup32 in a USB driver?

-is the any graphic wiki to install manually NoblePup32 ? Does NoblePup32 have the graphic option to install this OS?

-could NoblePup32 recognize ext4 file system partitions? Does NoblePup32 have the option to use flags we you make the partition like bios_grub, home, /, linux swap? could NoblePup32 have more than 4 partitions?

-And does NoblePup32 on it's Synaptic library have the option to install Gnome Software?

Sorry, if my English is not good enough to be read, but I've didn't find any other option.
Thanks in advance