Thanks guys. I have 2 PCs one is really old and basic so I'm going to try both methods, as I see the puppy installer provides a stripped down version.

How do I install Open Office after having completed a full install? Anybody have a useful link? Thanks

Thanks for the tip that fixed it.

When I was running puppy off the CD puppy would load the saved wireless configuration on boot up. Since doing a full install it will no longer load the configuration on start up and I have to configure it on each start up. Is there some file somewhere I need to edit?

A repartition, reinstall and separate install of grub fixed it but now I've lost my home folder Icon (little house) from my desk top. How can I restore this, I presume it can't be that hard?

Edit: It's OK I figured it out. Tnx for all help.

Isn't there supposed to be an "initrd /initrd - xxx" line in the above menu.lst file somewhere? Doesn't grub need to know where the initial ram drive is in order to boot?

menu.lst file # GRUB configuration file '/boot/grub/menu.lst'. # generated by 'grubconfig'. Thu Jul 31 09:54:31 2008 # # The backup copy of the MBR for drive '/dev/hda' is # here '/boot/grub/mbr.hda.27108'. You can restore it like this. # dd if=/boot/grub/mbr.hda.27108 of=/dev/hda bs=512 count=1 # #...

Puppy 4.0 Dingo,
Full Install
Puppy is on hda1
File system is ext2
Boot flag is set

Can't get to menu.lst file at the mo', will post asap, but as I recall everything looked OK

Machine is IBM ThinkPad 600E, 128 Mb RAM, 6 Gb hdd. hda1 = linux-system, hda2 = linux-swap, hda3 = linux-data. Machine boots and operates flawlessly from CD-ROM. Followed procedures on this board for full install and installation of GRUB, plus subsequent advice. Puppy is installed and I've edited th...

Machine is IBM ThinkPad 600E, 128 Mb RAM, 6 Gb hdd. Machine boots and operates flawlessly from CD-ROM. Followed procedure here for full install and installation of GRUB, plus subsequent advice. Puppy is installed and I've edited the menu1st file as advised. But on reboot I get a "Missing operat...

OK, so I want to do a full install. I can't install directly when in Puppy as Puppy is on hda1 which is mounted and which is where I want to install it. So, I boot from the CD using pfix=ram. This permits me to run the install procedure. Then I reach a point where a dialogue says "a version of ...

I want to do a full install to an old ThinkPad 600E. The hard drive comprises a single ext2 partition and there is no other operating system on the PC. At the end of the install procedure what boot options should I select? How is booting handled with this type of installation/configuration? Otherwis...

Thanks gentlemen, just the clarification I needed.

I'm trying to persuade my niece to adopt linux by breathing new life into her old ThinkPad. Right now it has win98 installed and I'm running Puppy off the CD. System is very basic 64, MB RAM and 3 GB hdd. For now I want to keep win98. So I want to do a full install and use Grub as the boot loader. R...