Puppy Linux

Today i spent the entire day installing linux (well, any SO that could run would do it) in a old machine, with 64Mb of ram, it had to be a light distro, and since it doesn't have a - functional - CD drive, it had to be really installed, also, bios didn't support pen drives for booting and such (and i don't have floppies avaliable around here), so there i was, with a very dusty computer to restore. ---------BEGIN------------- QUEST: Ressurrect an old PC --------------------------------------- Task one: Find a way to inject an SO on it, solution - hijack a CD drive from other (old) computer. Task two: Connect the drive to the computer, errr.... how the heck i open the PC box? After an hour of metal bend and cut (not the metal, the fingers), access!! Now to put the drive on it... oh wait... it doesn't recognize the hardrive now.... hmmm ... ok ... reset bios... solved... i think... Task three: Select and install a mini-distro, DSL, too hard for the users, feather linux, only on CD, soo... among the images i had in my laptop hardrive i selected Puppy Linux, it started up once i burned the CD and booted from it... nice... now... WHERE IS THE HARDRIVE???!!! Task four: Track down why linux isn't recognizing the hardrive when bios is... errr.... this is the first time that this happens to me... hmmm ... ok... *removes more pieces from another old PC* puts HDD and CD Drive in diferent cables... works! *phew* Linux detects it... installs ... and.... Grub error 17... Task five: Find why the grub thown such an error.... reinstall linux... error disapeared.... riiiiightt ... this one was easy... oh wait... error 2 now ... #%@§!!! Task six: Solve the error 2... hmmm ... *google* *google* *forum* *google* *forum* ... mess with bios ... ok .... change type/detection of HDDs ... ok... crap ... computer doesn't start and just keeps beepping ... ok ... reset BIOS on jumper... ok ... make the same change... ok ... now starts .... and.... success .. . grub is on! Task seven: Finish Puppy configuration... all working! ----------------------------- BONUS QUEST: Come back next week and repeat all steps because users WILL destroy it... ------------END-------------- *sigh* On a side note, Puppy linux is quite awesome.... not as powerful and versatile as the DSL, but freaking fast!