Hello Folks, I was very happy reading this post. As long as i cannot get my Linux machines on the internet (also a project, but waiting for a router) I thought this to be a nice way to fiddle with Xfree on my Compaq Armada 1520D (133 MHz, 48 MB, 4G described elswhere). Big Problem.... CD won't boot ...

Ladies and Gentlemen .... WE GOT IT !!!! After all it was a combination of your suggestions... You HAVE to make a swap partition AND you have to clean any win98 partitions from the infamous puppy001 file. SO now it rons from the live CD and I expect the HD Install will work out fine. HOWEVER... THE ...

same problem here...

it seems Puppy knows there is a swap partition but cannot use it.
with another live CD linux I created a linux swap file in cfdisk.
is there a boot option we can type at puppy splash ??

Grinnalot

Compaq Armada 1520D
133 MHZ, 48 MB, 4 G HD

Another option..... requiring some assistence... I got Feather linux now installed on my HD but I am not entirely satisfied with the graphics. Since Puppy looks great on my test machine I stil want to give it a go. So here is the question.... Can I install Puppy on the HD from working in Feather ? i...

AS it appears the first burn of Puppy 1.0.5 was not a good burn, coz it failed to boot on the test machine as welll. SO I burned another and on the test machine this one booted well. On the Compaq however it got stuck at the same point as Puppy 1.0.6. Still looking for Puppy0001 files.... Cheerz Gri...

Hi Flash

Yeah vmlinux starts automatically with booting from CD.

OK ... will look for the puppy 001 file

IN general:
Puppy 1.0.5 does not get passed the Splash screen....

those puppy's are playfull....

Grinnalot

This is how I created the swap partition With Partition Magic I moved the win98 partition to the back of the HD (probably useless but I wanted puppy to feel welcom at the front door). I booted DSL 0.6.2 and opened a Bash window. With sudo cfdisk I entered cfdsik. With [New] I made a new partition of...

First of all I would like to thank you all... the response on this forum keeps me enthusiastic to make this puppy run... However.... If I completely wipe my HD I got nothing left. The ultimate goal is to make my Compaq a dual boot machine. I do not have a win98 installation disk so i will keep that ...

Progress report trying Flash's option did not change a bit .... system halted at the same point as before.... thank you for playing... please play again.... after creating 880 MB swap at the end of the HD things changed.... first I get a 60 s holg at the line : swapon: /dev/hda2: Invalid argument bo...

Sorry flash ... your bootline did not work...

what i could id is use DSL to make a swap partittion.... question remains if puppy will find that one ....

CHeerz

Hi Sage...

Experimenting with DSL as well .. .. runs completely only with very ugly graphics/colors. Grrinzzz...let's see which distro will make the Compaq excel.

Cheerz

Hi, I got this old Compaq Armada 1520D (133 MHz, 48 MB RAM, 4 G HD) and I would really like to see it run on a nice small Linux, coz win98 is a bit slow. I only want to do simple things like IM, surfing and emailing (for starters). So I flashed the BIOS and now it boots from CD (pffiuww) and burned ...