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But I am beginning to think I'm just not smart enough to run Linux so maybe should let somebody else have the magazine. (I am or was trying to make a 10-year-old Dell laptop usable for household-mobile email and web surfing. Did succeed at putting Puppy onto a thumb drive which would boot a desktop but not the laptop. Laptop needs a new BIOS to permit boot from thumb drive. Unable to get wireless to work with the desktop. Unable to get Puppy to install onto the hard disk. Now they say I can get a Windows 7 laptop for only $300. Outrageous!)
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That's pretty cool! Just wanted to say, I've been using Ubuntu 9.10 for just over 3 months now, and I've got absolutely no reason whatsoever to return to Windows. And, Karmic Koala works perfectly on a 6 year old laptop with 768 MB of RAM! Long live Linux!
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But I am beginning to think I'm just not smart enough to run Linux so maybe should let somebody else have the magazine. (I am or was trying to make a 10-year-old Dell laptop usable for household-mobile email and web surfing. Did succeed at putting Puppy onto a thumb drive which would boot a desktop but not the laptop. Laptop needs a new BIOS to permit boot from thumb drive. Unable to get wireless to work with the desktop. Unable to get Puppy to install onto the hard disk. Now they say I can get a Windows 7 laptop for only $300. Outrageous!)
Does this 10YO laptop have a CD drive?
Try running it from there. You can pull the disk once booted so that the drive is usable by the OS.
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