Actually 15 gig is just barely enough to pull it off. For an install of ubuntu or MEPIS you need a small root partition of about 5 Gb, a linux/swap formatted partition of 512Mb or bigger (I use 1 Gb...

Yes you can install as many operating systems as you have physical space for. Here is a link to a page where a guy installed 145 operating systems on four hard drives and he had four different...

That's one of the main reasons I use mepis. All the players will work with libdvdcss2. Mepis plays dvds smoothly when you use the right vid driver and have all the extra needed packages. One of the...

You could try antiX on an older computer. It runs well on 128 Mb of ram. It has synaptic package manager. AntiX is a stripped down re-mastered version of the newest mepis. It is based on SimplyMEPIS...

Good enough for me. Let's start fresh.

Command lines are your best friend. Don't fear the command line. Just open a konsole or terminal and type in what you want. Here is a link to some command lines that work with mepis and should work...

Then why did you post the #2 post on this thread?
http://www.daniweb.com/forums/thread75766.html
I didn't see the relevance of your post. It looks like you were trolling for an arguement or just...

I would try SimplyMEPIS 6.5. If you have a very old computer I would use antiX. You can find antiX at distrowatch under mepis. It is a stripped down version of 6.5 with some gnome stuff and comes...

That's good 'cause it was way too slow before.
Just for an example when I click on my synaptic icon in mepis it takes less than a second for the password screen to pop up. Then when I put the...

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I've never seen anything good from any of your posts.

Why are you here again?

I don't mind having my posts questioned. I won't stand by and let anyone attack me when I did nothing to provoke.
As for you suggesting that I say nothing....you can suggest that all day and night...

You can pick nits but i would bet you that at the time of my original post at this forum I was the only antiX user with it installed to hard drive. That will change though . Wanna bet?

I agree with jbennet that you are using a live linux cd. Very few live linux cds can install apps or anything while using the live cd version of whatever linux that you have. That is not the case...

Considering that antiX has only been out at distrowatch for three days and MEPIS sentiment at this forum is low I think it would be a pretty safe bet that he or anyone else here hasn't used antiX....

Well how would you know anything about antiX ? From personal experience?
I've tried debian in several versions and the fastest of them all was mepis's 3.4.3. So I know from personal experience....

It would have to be a lot quicker. I'll boot into pclinux and see what the upgrade does. I found that upgrading a pile of packages on pclinux was slow but maybe that's fixed with a better synaptic. ...

So did you have a point to make or are you just trolling

There's a new version of MEPISLite out. It is called AntiX. It is based on SimplyMEPIS 6.5 and is designed to work on older boxes with low ram. It comes with fluxbox and doesn't come with kde. It has...

I would say to use 'released' . 'Testing' is for testers that don't need a stable system. 'Released' is a lot more stable.
The computer that you are going to try this with may be too small for...

Thanks for the support. I don't know why I get so much static at this site. I have no trouble at all at the other sites that I post on. I guess it's my way of trying to promote MEPIS. I am usually...

Those kind of posts are just trolling for trouble. I didn't say anything about anyone posting which version of linux that they think is better than MEPIS. Your post was uncalled for and was clearly...

I've been reading some posts where some newbs have had trouble installing slackware. So I have put together this little how to so they can get slackware installed. I usually only help with MEPIS as I...

Thanks for your un-solicited opinion. That's your choice so keep your ideas off of this thread. This thread is for MEPIS users. It's not a playground where you can say that sled or ubuntu is better....

If you are trying to start the new SimplyMEPIS 6.5 and it won't boot to a gui screen that may mean that it is trying to load the wrong video driver at boot.
Some things to remember to do at first...

TheNNS the whole point of this thread is about how easy MEPIS is and how easy it is to get all of the codecs that you need.

This is not a place to compare your favorite linux or anyone elses...

I liked linuxmint but I'm not a big fan of gnome. So I was happy today when I saw that linuxmint has come out with a beta bianca edition that uses kde. I got it from distrowatch. I will be testing...

happygeek you go ahead and close the thread if you want. I tell it like it is.
So.....

Macgyver your nothing but a punk and a troublemaker. Stay off of my threads. I don't need a loser like you...

Wow. The new MEPIS release is geared a lot more toward Mac Tel users than ever before.
Quote from Warren Woodford
"The MEPIS CDs contain an experimental "SimplyMEPIS Assistant" for OSX that helps...

The release of SimplyMEPIS 6.5 final is now available. It's a nice, easy to use and install, edition of MEPIS. There were quite a few alphas(2) and betas(7) as well as three rc candidates so a fair...

Ya right.... How about some links to the 'most of it not nice' posts? I'm a guide and moderator at MEPISlovers so I can reprimand any rude poster there. I've only had to jump on someone once since...

I'm cool. I just get hot when I get critics jumping all over my posts when I'm trying to help. Sorry for my rants but you know I NEVER start stuff like that. I'm not rude. I don't like to argue. But...

Well csgal only just asked me to come and post here again a little while ago.
In an email. So that's why I came back. Lucky thing huh?
And there is that great forum called 'Getting started and...

Are you serious? Of course my posts are all about MEPIS so what if they are? This forum is called 'Getting started and choosing a distro'. That's what I am posting about. Trying to make it easier for...

I clicked the 'flag bad post' option on your thread and made a complaint about you posting junk on my thread. You should have just kept your mouth shut. Nothing gets me going faster than an idiot...

Well if you don't like it then stay off my threads. The info I posted can be used for creating custom partitions for ubuntu, debian, kanotix, sidux, and any other linux that likes separate root, home...

TKS that was an awesome blog. Well written. I've got o93 big daddy and i am waiting to try the PClinuxOS final when it comes out. MEPIS is the one i use most but I have played with PClinuxOPS lately...

To install MEPIS using the 'Custom install to existing partitions' option that is in the MEPIS installer you first need to create your custom partitions.
You can create the custom partitions using...

I think you are the only one who is annoyed.
Whats a person who has never used MEPIS doing saying that MEPIS wiped the boot sector out? MEPIS has been out longer than ubuntu. We share the same...

MEPIS is one of the easiest versions of linux to use. Especially for a new user.
Here are some good reasons to choose MEPIS over some other version of linux.
1) Support is readily available...

MEPIS has been on the top ten list at distrowatch for over three years. It usually is at #4, or 5 but it does go up and down in the ranks depending on new releases of MEPIS and other versions new...