melannen | Success! (conditional)

Okay, here's how this evening's gone so far:

"Screw Ubuntu, I'll just install Puppy to the hard drive." Boot into Puppy livecd. Click "Puppy universal installer" on the main menu. Spend ten minutes doing exactly what it says on the screen. Reboot. "OMG, it *worked*! ...that was it???"¹

Alas, that was the easy part. Now I get to spend an indefinite amount of time getting all of these things working (or figuring out how I got them to work last time):

-~~sound~~ This fixed real easy - I was hoping it was just my BIOS's wonky battery resetting itself again, and it was! (yes, I have to go into bios settings every time I restart and manually remind it that it has sound. Don't ask.)
-printer
-scanner
-tablet
-CDR
-~~Opera~~ - I just grabbed this, history files and all, from the liveCD session, and it's working fine.
-moonlight
-OpenOffice
-~~a fully-functioning media library organizer~~ - Songbird is in the process of winning my heart.
-set clock
-ftp to my webspace
-~~games~~ - woot seahaven!
-~~local network filesharing~~ - woo samba!
-automatically boot to linux on hard drive instead of having to tell grub every time

...that's actually a fairly short list. And I know sound/printer/Opera/OpenOffice/clock/filesharing are doable fairly simply, 'cause I had them running on the liveCD. (I just have to remember how, and hope the resources are still there six months later. But if I have to I can just steal the files right off the liveCD save session, I think.)

And then importing all my bookmarks and settings.

First, however, I declare a break to actually do something fun! Probably finishing "The Wounded Sky".

¹slight exaggeration - I did have to edit one line in a grub file, but that's just 'cause I've gotten in the habit of playing with BIOS settings every time I reboot. And it was really simple to figure out what was wrong.