It's been awhile but I wanted to note that I finally did successfully update Puppy from 5.00 to 5.11. One super-noob gotcha I experienced, that was quite difficult to figure out: Be sure to wait for the *entire* file to copy (like the lupu-save file, which can be big) to the new puppy directory befo...

Thanks BigPup, that seems to be what I was looking for. I plan to upgrade in the next week or so and will post the (hopefully happy) results after I do so.

Frugal I'm pretty sure. That's the recommended install, no?

I have Puppy 5.0 installed on my laptop's hard disk and would like to update it to 5.1.1 (or another version sometime soon). I can't seem to find a simple step by step instructions on how to update my install online, so can someone tell me the easiest way to accomplish this?

It was indeed the battery after all. Maybe I' missing something -- and I don't even know if it's possible -- but I think it'd be great if someone wrote a "battery health" type app that could measure whether a laptop's battery is able to hold any charge at all and perhaps give an approximat...

So to recap: Something is wrong with the battery monitor info displayed by Puppy, which indicates that the battery is fully charged and essentially functional when it's actually dead. The first step in trying to resolve this problem is to replace the battery. If this doesn't work for some reason the...

Hello again. Still no luck. As I thought, the machine does immediately cut out when I unplug the power cord even when the battery is installed. But everything I can see indicates that the battery is 100% charged and recognized by the system. Attached is a pic of the battery info screen in Puppy (5.0...

Thanks for your replies. I'm at work right now, but I'll test all of your suggestions tonight. Beem: When I pull the plug while the machine is on I'm pretty sure it loses power immediately. So perhaps the problem is the battery after all? The only reason I thought not was because the battery monitor...

I've installed Puppy 5 on an old HP laptop that I inherited. Everything seems to be working OK except that I can only boot the machine when it is plugged in to a wall socket (ie not from battery power). I clicked on Puppy's battery monitor icon when powered up and everything appears to be OK with th...