On Sat, 31 Dec 2011, Lisi wrote: > On Saturday 31 December 2011 19:10:04 Andy wrote: >> On Saturday 31 December 2011 01:27:20 pm Lisi wrote: >>> On Saturday 31 December 2011 17:37:17 Dan Youngquist wrote: >>>> Ubuntu "just works" on most everything. >>> >>> Sadly, not for me. I always have problems. That is what I meant by its >>> not liking me!! >>> >>> Now I find that Debian Just Works for me, or, at worst, needs one very >>> simple tweak. >> >> Lisi, have you considered David Hare's live CD, basically a tweaked Squeeze >> with a "minimal (to save space) Trinity Desktop (KDE 3.5.13)"? >> >> http://exe-linux.fastfishwebsolutions.com/index.html > > Thanks, Andy. No I hadn't. I clearly ought to have done so. Once I can, I > must download it and add it to my arsenal. At present, I have no means of > burning it to disk - so it wouldn't be much use as a Live CD! my netbooks don't have a cd player. I installed Hare's system using a usb drive. as I vaguely recall, I used unetbootin to install it on a usb-drive. F. -- Felmon Davis I just need enough to tide me over until I need more. -- Bill Hoest