Rescued by a puppy

My hard disk, after surving me well beyond the guarantee period, coughed and collapsed. Since I had saved most of what I had there, it was not a problem. I was however, able to use my PC with a live CD of linux. But what about my bookmarks, files etc?

I thought this was as good a time as any to get that little puppy from down under, to help. Booting with the puppy multisession CD 1.0.6 in the CD writer, I simple copied everything I wanted from my USB pen and a CD, setup the connection to the internet, played around a bit, and logged off. I was asked if I wanted to save stuff, I said "yes" and logged off.

When I booted up again, everything was there including my beloved bookmarks, files and pics. This is so good, that I wondered if I ever would need a HDD! But there are some problems. Sound does not work. Not a big problem, but sad. The MPEGs cannot be seen. Multimedia is missing!!

All these are correctible according to the Forum. If I want to I can install by pup-get the Open Office 2.0 suite too, and log off and burn it to my Puppy. But I have held it at bay for now, as it gives me a chance to try out my Taprobane live CD to use Office apps.

Nevertheless, Puppy is quite wonderful. I must get multimedia going and add OOo and then it would be quite adequate for most days.

I do miss my Ubuntu install though :-) It was growing quite well......