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by flickerfly
Tue 20 Apr 2010, 15:39
Forum: HOWTO ( Solutions )
Topic: Touchscreen HOWTO
Replies: 82
Views: 123380

I'm trying to figure out how to get my touchscreen on this MSI Pennote 3100 working. I have looked at the manual and website, but haven't found much more than information identifying it as a touchscreen. I can't seem to identify who made the device or anything. I guess it simply runs through the mot...
by flickerfly
Thu 15 Apr 2010, 15:13
Forum: Beginners Help ( Start Here)
Topic: Puppy on MSI Pennote 3100
Replies: 3
Views: 1420

Figured it out. My flash was formated FAT32. I reformatted to a FAT16 drive as the primary bootable partition and formatted the remainder FAT32 since it was too much for a single FAT16 drive.
by flickerfly
Wed 14 Apr 2010, 19:16
Forum: Beginners Help ( Start Here)
Topic: Puppy on MSI Pennote 3100
Replies: 3
Views: 1420

So, I got puppy on a USB stick that boots on other machines, but I can't get it to boot on the pennote. I keep getting the error Could not find kernel image: linux boot: I've tried several different mbr options: default sys-nopart.mbr mbr.bin mbrfat.bin spb2_mbr Any other hints or some documentation...
by flickerfly
Tue 13 Apr 2010, 14:10
Forum: Beginners Help ( Start Here)
Topic: Puppy on MSI Pennote 3100
Replies: 3
Views: 1420

Puppy on MSI Pennote 3100

I have a MacBook Pro which seems to be having trouble with the CD drive so I want to try to install Puppy directly on my USB flash. Is there any way to do that? (Mac directly to USB Flash) The objective is to use puppy on an MSI Pennote 3100 which doesn't have a CD drive of its own anyway. Is there ...
by flickerfly
Mon 12 Apr 2010, 20:18
Forum: Beginners Help ( Start Here)
Topic: so close yet so far... what to type if installed on hd1?
Replies: 10
Views: 2795

Morktron? How did you manage to get any install media (usb/cd) to boot on this? I can't seem to get into the BIOS to even see if options exist to boot by USB.

Thanks!