Mounting ISO

A. Jorge Garcia calcpage at aol.com
Sat Jan 22 23:13:37 UTC 2011


> Jorge, hold on first, you mentioned puppy linux.. my experience with 
puppy
> is not so good, for a few good reasons, the one (out of many) 
pertinent to
> you is that it chews up some partition for itself; some people call 
it the
> 'swap', but I think it uses the chewed partition like the 
'persistent-rw'
> for keeping any changes. So I had not tried puppy for many years.

Well, I do not usually use Puppy Linux, but the SAGE folks seem to like 
it.  I tried booting the CD a few times and it seems to work OK without 
messing up any existing partitions. I do have a 512MB swap partition on 
each box.  BTW, we have 25 dual-core 64bit Athlons.

Thanx,
A. Jorge Garcia
Applied Math and CompSci
http://shadowfaxrant.blogspot.com
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