I don't know why I didn't think of this earlier. Puppy Linux has a universal installer that lets you put it on a flash drive. I had already ordered an external DVD reader, but rather than wait, I decided to see if Puppy would work on the Everex Cloudbook.
Found an old SD card, 256Mb (also found a thumb drive with backups of files I thought I'd lost, so my luck is really good today). Booted up Puppy on a tower with the SD card, Puppy 4.1, most recent version. Installed it. Put the card in the Cloudbook. Fired it up. Puppy runs like a dream! Now, obviously, further testing is needed. The sound is kind of quiet, far quieter than it is under gOS. However, I tested with one of my garage games. IT WORKS PERFECT! So the problem is NOT the VIA GPU at all, it's how the different parts of the OS work together! (Surprise, Puppy already had a setting for the 800X480 display.) Tried to use the wireless connection. Had to configure it. But, unlike my PCMCIA card, where I had to search the Puppy wiki to find the right driver, Puppy instantly knew what to use (interestingly, it descibed it as a USB wifi), and I was on the 'Net in moments! So, here's where I stand -- The Cloudbook is more than usable under Puppy off an SD card. Video playback and MP3 playback hasn't been attempted yet. Sound is kind of quiet, although that ought to be fixable, I would think. No trippy visual when I run programs not part of the gOS install. Don't know for sure yet what I'm going to do, but trying different distros on this thing no longer seems like such a long shot to get working right. Next up? One of my fav distros, MEPIS, but that will have to wait until the external drive arrives.... --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users Group. To post a message, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit our group at http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
