thanks for the answers, guys. I guess the trick with the "Pause" button just might work, gonna have to try it. That still doesn't get rid of the other problem. At "loading drivers to access disk drives" it still shuts down the drive, then restarts it. I had it working for many ti...

Hi, I just got a new 1Tb Buffalo JustStore USB HDD and installed Puppy on it for kicks. Unfortunately this hard drive has a power-saving feature that shuts it down when the computer shuts down. I installed Puppy from the live-CD using the universal installer and chose USB Hard Drive. When I boot up ...

Thought I'd put in my 2 cents. I've tried to install puppy on USB various times. Most recently, last week and today. So here's some "what works and what doesn't" info from my experience... I'll skip my previous attempts because I don't remember how they went. Recently I bought a 2GB SD car...

PC #1: AMD Athlon 64 X2 5200+ (2.6 GHz x2) 2GB 800 MHz DDR2 8800GTS 640MB 250G SATA2 HDD LG BD-RW/HDDVD-ROM/DVD+-RW/CD-RW uber combo drive BenQ G2400W 24" 1920x1200 LCD boots puppy using live-CD and the actual files on HDD (frugal install). Usually runs XP Pro, tho PC #2: AMD Sempron 2200+ 1.5 ...

wow, just wow... took me 3 hours to figure THIS out? How I did NOT get it working (what I did in vain) When you boot the live-CD, you get the Xorg video wizard. My display was 1280x1024, and that's what I tried to set, and it failed. I ended up using another computer to download and install (in Pupp...

I'd like to bump this question... i have a few free days to do some repartitioning of my hard drive and I've learned to trust Puppy and Gparted for this stuff. Was a nasty surprise when Puppy didn't work with my new 8800GTS. Is there perhaps a flavor of puppy with nvidia drivers preinstalled? EDIT: ...

Hello. I praised the previous edition of TeenPup a lot when I tried it. I didn't get to use it for many days before TeenPup 2008 came out. I like TP2008, too. Only it seems to have a lot more issues than the previous version. Maybe it's just my computer. Who knows. Main 2 issues: 1) Closing tabs doe...

I downloaded TeenPuppy yesterday and I just want to say it's pretty amazing. It has all the stuff a teen needs, and more! Perfect for someone like me. I like Puppy cause it's so fast. Now it has all teh functionality I need as well! I never bothered to dwell deep to get it all working cause I knew I...

updating... Of course, shortly after asking for help, I had success. Only partial, though. On the downstairs computer, 3 meters away from the router, I finally did get a connection. I had to manually edit the rt73sta.dat file in /etc/Wireless/RT73STA/. In the config file I set my ESSID, channel, enc...

Hello! For a while now I've been trying to get a D-Link DWL-G122 wireless USB Dongle to work in Puppy. We have a D-Link DI-524 wireless router. The dongle works fine in windows. About a month ago I was reading a topic about the rt73 here on the Puppy forums and someone in that thread or some other t...

My sister's computer crashed, apparently a bad memory stick. Trying to fix it, I got windows to boot once. Stayed up for an hour and then crashed, and it's now missing a system config file (in WINDOWS\System32\Config\). Tells me to use the repair CD but that won't boot for whatever reason, but hangs...

Puppy was the first Linux I ever tried and that's what I have stayed with. I did once download a Knoppix Live-CD. It froze at boot. Tried Slax. Booting took long as hell, used it for 5 minutes and quit. Tried Ubuntu Live-DVD. Froze at boot. Tried DSL in QEMU (aka "Embedded-DSL"). Nice one,...

Sounds like maybe your computer isn't activating the USB drive fast enough at boot. When I tried to make my own flash-puppy work, I searched many forums and found that sometimes it just doesn't recognize your drive fast enough (and somehow recognizes faster when power stays on, i.e. restart). Somewh...

I think this might be a hardware problem because I'd imagine somebody would have noticed it by now. I noticed it today when I was writing some text with geany running Puppy 2.00. After copying the text and pasting it to this blog sort-of-thing online, I right-clicked on geany (minimized in the task ...

Hello, I am once again trying to compile Transport Tycoon Deluxe. I did this succesfully in 2.10. I have LibSDL1.2-for-Doom and LibSDL1.2-for-Doom-headers-and-static. Those were enough the last time. I also have all the libraries from the DotPup manager although TTD doesn't need them. I can extract ...

Seems to be working, thank you! I'll burn a new CD with my custom initrd some time before tuesday. Wish me luck

I'd like to edit the startup scripts in initrd. With my level of knowledge, I should probably go nowhere near them, but it's not like I can break anything... right? I've gotten as far as copying the initrd.gz file from the CD to /root/, after which I have unzipped it with the gunzip command. Now, if...

Yes, I was missing the headers and static! It works, this is a dream come true! Thank you SO MUCH!

This is the exact error I'm getting: sdl.c:9:17: SDL.h: No such file or directory sdl.c: In function `SdlAbort': sdl.c:79: warning: implicit declaration of function `SDL_Quit' sdl.c: In function `SdlOpen': sdl.c:104: warning: implicit declaration of function `SDL_Init' sdl.c:105: warning: implicit d...

hehey, I'm bringing this topic up from the dead... I just had success in installing DOSBox on Puppy (with the help from another thread on these forums) so I decided to take it a bit further and install openTTD. I downloaded the sourcecode file openttd-0.4.8-source.tar.gz. 1) I extracted it using tar...