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[sindi keesan <keesan AT SDF.ORG>]

On Tue, 6 Jan 2015, Ian wrote:

> > This computer came with Win2k in hda1 where I left it.  I shrank it and
> > made a small hda2 with DOS (which is physically the first partition --
> > ???) but grub4dos installed to hda1 which is a pain since I have to boot
> > to win2k to edit it.  Make sure to install grub4dos to a non-ntfs
> > partition.
> >
> > To boot Win2K I need to choose Advanced Menu.
> > XP in similar setups boots as Windows.  Odd.

I don't expect to be finding/leaving Win2K on many computers.  I leave 
Windows to help figure out of sound is dead or just not working in linux 
because of driver problems.

> I expect if you had changed your active partition from hda1 to hda2, grub4dos 
> would have
> installed in hda2. I'm using gparted for changing the active partition but it 
> might be OK to
> use Fdisk.

The grub4dos installation  program in puppy lets you choose where to 
install grub to.  Usually it is mbr (hda) I think.  DOS fdisk lets you 
make partition active (A), as does linux (c)fdisk.

I think hda2 is the first partition because of some screwy setup that came 
with the computer, and I deleted its contents and used them for DOS, but 
grub4dos by default put menulst and grldr in hda1 (Win2K).

I never knew grub could boot a disk with bad boot sector, or BL.

I am about to see if Google Chrome can be used on the desktop where I 
installed Grub in order to boot BL (and also installed puppy), without 
installing Chrome, from the directory it unpackages itself to. This works 
in BL with Opera (9.63) or Firefox (2.0).  Comcast Internet 3MBps, without 
paid cable TV subscription, keeps suggesting that I watch their cable TV 
online (one device at a time), but insists on Flash 11.8, which is 
available in Ubuntu Chrome 38 (and probably 32) 46MB package, as Pepper 
Flash, but not as standalone past version 11.2.  I am trying to wean our 
neighbor off $100/month cable TV.  He only watches news.  Tried to get him 
online with linux but ndiswrapper cannot handle the newish wifi card in 
the DELL laptop we gave him and I wanted it portable so he could watch 
'TV' in different rooms.  Ethernet in only the one room.

BL experience has been extremely useful on a rooted Android phone. 
Busybox, ssh, dropbear, scp.........  ssh client gets me to my sdf account 
where I can use lynx (which no longer seems to work on android phones).

> Ian.

Sindi Keesan