Doggy Business

More Linux playing.  This time, I went and downloaded FatDog64, which has been talked up rather highly around YouTube and such.

It was, shall we say, an adventure...

Trying to download it from the FatDog website just wouldn't work.  Tried twice.  The first time I ended up with some strange files oddities in the download folder.  Zapped those, and tried again, only to have the download fail at about the 200 MB level...

So, I did some searching, and found a mirror site, which allowed me to choose whether I wanted the version with Seamonkey as a web browser, or FireFox.  I chose FireFox and went on, holding my breath.

The download that time work.  I quickly burned to CD, did a liveboot, and everything seemed hunkydory on my Acer desktop (with Ethernet to the modem).  OK.  While in the liveboot, I set up an old USB thumbdrive for boot, and installed to that.

So, I pulled out the T400, which I've been testing with the new battery, and decided to give it a go.  (I needed to boot into BIOS anyway, to disable the Bluetooth, which I never use, and which [for me] only serves as a battery drain.)  FatDog booted up OK, no problems.

I was slightly thrown when I wasn't given the network setup prompt at bootup, as other Puppies do.  So, I went in search of the network setup, only to get my second jolt:  It's not recognizing my touchpad for input.  It lets me navigate with the touchpad, but won't let me click.  I'll have to check on that...

After finally getting my head on straight, I got the network set up, and am now cruising about in FireFox.  (And typing this entry.)  I'll be taking this OS on the road with me as well for some testing.  (Though, right now, I somehow see Saluki getting more service time.)

A question:  Why the hell does the trashcan keep appearing as though it's got something in it?  I clicked on it shortly after bootup, and it went to the 'empty' look.  Now it looks full again...

This is going to be an adventure...

In other news.  (ie, more tails of me needing to get my head screwed on right...)  I finally got round to downloading/installing Thunar under Bodhi.  (Forgetting, of course, that Thunar takes forever to start up...)  Enlightenment File Manager is tolerable for a quick look at what's in a folder, but it is a bit skimpy for real file management.

Oh well...  I need to get packed up this evening.  Back out to work tomorrow...

And maybe get a little more "adventuring" in for the evening...

Weekends definitely go by too fast.........