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   HalJordan
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   First impressions from a guy who has installed many Linux distros. These are my opinions. These are not meant to bash Macpup, only to relate my experience and how I see it.

   I set up a default VirtualBox VM and booted the MacPup Live CD.

   On the boot screen it says Macpup and Macpup - Ram : Whats the difference? There is nothing to indicate the difference even pressing the F1 button for Help. This should be fixed. Going back to the Macpup website, there is nothing on this.. no pages in fact detailing about the product accept for a tiny video showing off a few features after it's installed. It is the worst distro page for information I have ever seen.

   Hitting one or the other option boots the live desktop. I understand it's based off Enlightenment but don't you think for a live Cd newbies are going to look at you could have at least (the very least) put an icon in the dock for an installer? I had to go searching for the buried installer and when I could not find it, a Google search brought me to the video. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tq-ki7qLoao. I found out you had to partition your drive before the Universal Installer option would show up in the menu. This is backwards from every distro I have ever used (as someone who is geared to the desktop) As I am in marketing, it seems like the folks who made this distro really do not want anyone to use it because marketing wise, they have made all the worst choices when it comes to ease of install and information about the installation.

   So I watch the video and decide to install this to the Virtual Hard Drive

   I have watched the video here, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tq-ki7qLoao but had to turn off the sound and watch very closely in full screen mode because I can hardly understand the guy, (no offense, I'm American and not used to his accent) Someone should make another clearer version of this install process.

   I get Gparted going only to find I cannot manipulate my partition full of unallocated space to format it because the mouse integration is so bad in the VM, I cannot cause it to hover over the correct menu choices. I know this may not be a fault of MacPup, just relating my experience/trouble.

   Can anyone help me get passed this?

   (I was drawn to MacPup because I was looking to see if anyone made a Mac clone distro, much like the popular XP Linux distro was for Windows XP)

   Thank you.

   Posted 9 months ago #
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   runtt21
   Moderator

   First, "Mac clone distro" , we don't do this. We look a little like osx in the desktop arrangement but that's it.Dreamlinux is much closer to osx than us.

   Next, It says on the download page "based on Puppy Linux 5.2.5 " and has the link "Click here to read an overview of Puppy Linux. " That takes you to lots of info about how puppy linux works.Almost all of it is the same for macpup. Sorry I haven't finished the complete guide to macpup that explains everything anyone could every ask.

   http://hardkap.net/forums/topic/macpup-525

   That wont have all of the info you want but it helps.The first three post are the main stuff.And a lot of that info is included in the .iso in the "about macpup 525" doc. in the /root folder.

   This thread covers the use of e17 in macpup but is also valid for most e17 distro's

   http://hardkap.net/forums/topic/e17-guide

   Dude, It's a live CD that runs completely in ram. Don't run it in VM. I'll skip the discussion about setting up a save file or usb install since that is covered in the first link.I do recommend using a usb for both save or frugal install cause you don't risk messing up your HDD install of dose or anything else.It safe. This is when the boot options ,"ram or not" come into play. If you want to try something but want to "test" it out first you boot up with the ram option so it wont load your save file.Then install or run what ever ,if you like it reboot, load the save file and install and keep it.If not just shutdown and it's gone.

   BTW you did try the "help" icon on the bottom shelf,right?

   Posted 9 months ago #

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