DSL is still using a 2.4 kernel.
Puppy is running as root by default, and it is
not quite easy to add a full normal user account.
Slitaz would be an alternative, but it does not
have the correct screen resolution for all
wide screen monitors.
I would suggest CDlinux and in the older version 6.0.1 ,
if you only want web browsing, and do not need office
applications.
You should have a broadband DSL (ADSL) connection, not a
dial-up connection.
The included Firefox may be old, but you would anyhow
have to install current browser releases yourself.
The CDlinux iso file is only about 59 Mb .
Download from here :
http://sourceforge.net/projects/cd-linux/files/CDlinux-ISO/0.6.1/CDlinux-0.6.1.iso.gz/download
Unpack the iso.gz file with 7-zip.
You will get a folder with Cdlinux.iso in it.
Burn the iso to a CD with the special iso burning file
command from the menu of your burning application.
It may be "Burn iso to CD" or similar.
Do not simply copy and burn the iso file, this would not
work for booting.
In a second burning on the same CD you can add additional
programs in a multiburning session.
You can first download wine to a harddisk folder from here :
http://sourceforge.net/projects/wine/files/Slackware%20Packages/1.1.10/wine-1.1.10-i486-1kjz.tgz/download
Create a folder Wine and unpack the .tgz file into this folder
with 7-Zip in two steps .
Go there to the folder /usr/lib/ and rename the existing file
libwine.so.1.0 to libwine.so.1 .
Go now to the folder /usr with 7-zip and pack this folder only in
two steps, first to tar , and then with Gzip to
Wine-1110.tar.gz .
Then download for example my variation KM-NX-18123
from here :
http://one.xthost.info/eichhein/K-Meleon-NX-18123.zip
Unpack it and add to the main k-meleon folder
the two dll's msvcp71.dll and msvcr71.dll that
you can find for example at dll-files.com .
You can also add the flash plugin to the plugins folder,
if you should want that.You can also add a personal startpage
to the main folder.
After having done that, repack the folder
K-Meleon-NX-18123 as a new zip-file K-Meleon-NX-18123.zip .
You can also download the latest Firefox for Linux
if you want it. from here :
http://download.mozilla.org/?product=firefox-3.5.7&os=linux&lang=en-US
It will be a firefox-3.5.7.tar.bz2 file.
Create a textfile containing the install script in Notepad.
With the Text :
install-pkg /media/CDlinux_0.6.1/Wine-1110.tar.gz
cp /media/CDlinux_0.6.1/K-Meleon-NX-18123.zip /home/cdl/
cp /media/CDlinux_0.6.1/firefox-3.5.7.tar.bz2 /home/cdl/
cd /home/cdl/
unzip K-Meleon-NX-18123.zip
tar -C /home/cdl/ -jxf firefox-3.5.7.tar.bz2
chown -R cdl:root /home/cdl
chmod -R 775 /home/cdl
And save it as Startscript.txt in UTF-8 format.
Burn now the 4 files to the CD in the second burning. namely :
Wine-1110.tar.gz
K-Meleon-NX-18123.zip (your changed zip-file)
firefox-3.5.7.tar.bz2
Startscript.txt
When the CD is ready, you can try to boot it, after
going to the boot menu of the computer, which can
be called by pressing repeatedly a specified key,
which can be different for any computer, for example F12.
Select there the CD as the boot medium.
CDlinux will start up quite quickly, and should recognize
your screen resolution and establish a DSL (ADSL) connection
automatically.
Mount the CD , right clicking on the icon and selecting
Mount Volume.
Open the red root terminal in the taskbar at the bottom.
You should immediately change the root password, typing :
passwd
and press Enter and then type a safe password twice.
Do the same for the existing user cdl, typing :
passwd cdl
and press Enter and then type a safe password twice.
To install wine, K-Meleon and Firefox, open
an additional user terminal (without the red frame), and type
mousepad /media/CDlinux_0.6.1/Startscript.txt
select the text , copy all of it and paste it
into the root terminal (with the red frame).
Then press the Enter key several times, until the
commands are all executed.
Close the root terminal
and open the user terminal (without the red frame).
To start K-Meleon, type :
wine /home/cdl/K-Meleon-NX-18123/k-meleon.exe
To start Firefox, type :
/home/cdl/firefox/firefox
(the names will be completed after the first letters,
pressing the Tab-key.)
The browsers should always be started as the user cdl,
and wine does not work when started as root.
You could also add two icon links to the /home/cdl/Desktop folder,
containing the browser start commands, with the
ending ".desktop", and add them later in a third
cd multiburn session together with corresponding
.jpg's ore .png's .
It is also possible to start CDlinux and the apps from
a bootable USB stick, but I think I could write a "how to"
about that later.
Regards
Fred