Hi, I need suggestion for a new laptop. I do lot of travel and want to install puppy linux to the laptop as only os. Basic need is to surfing web, watch youtube video, emails and open office. For this I want to buy a new cheap laptop. Please suggest some model of cheap laptop. Please help. Goutam (p...

I made a frugal installation of Slacko 5.3.1 on my pc. After boot up I hotplug my 3g USB win modem. Splash message appear "3g modem inserted... configuring..". Then I open pupdial. It showed "no modem found. press choose button. I press Probe button. No modem found. My modem is Microm...

Thanks for response. Unetbootin did not worked for me. PC has no floppy support. So I could not put MBR on the floppy. At first I did not want to modify MBR of PC. So I burned ISO of PLOP and boot the PC from USB with help of PLOP CD. Then as per Aitch advice I modify the MBR with PLOP. Now I am abl...

@Monsie Please note that at first when I installed puppy on USB using YAMI from pendrivelinux , it booted. After loading initrd pc reboots. So bios is capable to boot from usb. You are right ,but bios needs an update. Now I see only boot error. @sfeeley I will try unetbootin. Where did you install p...

Try checking to see if the flashdrive has a bootflag set in gparted If not, set it and try again I checked with gparted, boot flag set. PLOP should work IF the flashdrive is bootable Test it in a different PC, with USB bootability to be sure... I tried this usb with plop, on a different pc, laptop ...

Hi Aitch, Thanks for the link.I tried that method but without success Hi Flash, Thanks. I will try the method and post results. Goutam Now I see only Boot Error when boot from usb. I tried that usb with PLOP it boots normally. It shows YAMI first menu options etc. I checked the usb drive in windows....

Without details of your PC make/model we cannot give better advice My PC is Intel Celeron 1200 Mhz processor, Intel 810e Chipset, SDRAM 256MB, 40GB HDD, BIOS Version 6.00 PG, Mother Board Gigabyte , Model 6IWFE. It supports only USB 1.1. No USB 2.0 support. Try a bios update, or use Smart Boot Mana...

When it reboots after the initrd.gz. Do you see any error message? No error message. I see only "Loading initrd.gz .........ready" Then reboots. In the bios. What are the options you have for booting? On first boot screen, do you get an option like: F12 - for boot options I set option Fir...

bigpup wrote:Run from the live Lucid 528 CD.
Install to the USB flash drive using the program
menu->setup->Bootflash install Puppy to USB

I tried this method also but after loading initrd pc restarts. I continued 4/5 times, same result. I pressed crtl+alt+del for hot booting. But no result.

Goutam

Which option did you use for making the bootable USB? You probably chose the first one: USB HDD. It may be that your older machine doesn't like this format (although the fact it got as far as loading initrd is ... interesting. I'd try re-installing to the USB stick choosing "USB-FDD - Superflo...

I have a old pc with 256 mb ram . I put Lucid puppy 5.2.8 (for 256 mb ram ) with universal usb installer under windows xp under same pc. After BIOS option change I tried to boot from usb. After loading vmlinuz and initrd.gz pc reboots. I burned the same iso on a cd and pc booted normally. I tried th...

[ So are you talking about another computer now? Can you not install it in same way? That RHEL how is that one installed? Does it not have a boot where you can add code for booting a frugal install of lupu?[/quote] Yes I am talking about another computer with 512MB of RAM. RHEL4 is installed. I can'...

Hi,

I have a old pc with os RHEL4. How can I run latest version of Puppy linux within RHEL4.

Thanks,

Goutam

Hi, @bigpup @playdayz Thank you for your response. I Download http://diddywahdiddy.net/Puppy500/lupu-528.002_for_256MB.iso and make a frugal installation. I bootup puppy and then hot plug my wireless modem. Modem detected on ttyUSB3. Configure wvdial and get connected. No problem at all. Thanks once...

Hi muggins,

Thanks for the response.
I tried but failed.

Then I disable the ethernet card by ifconfig eth0 down.
And the modem connected and I can browse.

Thanks again

Goutam

Hi,

I am a newbie.
I just download Lucid puppy 5.2.8 , Instant updat 001 and 002.

I have Intel Celeron 1200Mhz ,256 Mb RAM PC.
I have a Micromax Usb modem MMX310g.
Please let me know that what dot pet package should I install to connet the modem to the internet.

Thanks,

Goutam.

Hi, I am running puppy 431 with a Micromax MMX310g. I install modem fix pack. I hotplug the modem. The modem detected in ttyUSB3. I change the phone number and APN. But the modem did not connec. I run pmodemdiag. I unplug the modem and hotplug in Windos XP it connected and I can browse. I am attachi...