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by vanotee
Wed 02 May 2007, 21:09
Forum: Beginners Help ( Start Here)
Topic: 2.14 booting speedup: no pup001 file, what to do?
Replies: 10
Views: 4138

i don't know if Grub can boot from an ntfs partition ... i don't have any ntfs partitions ... if you can boot Win 2k with Grub, it should be able to boot Puppy GuestToo: When W2K first loaded it loaded to Fat32 later Windows Red Hat was installed. Still later a separate 9G Fat32 was setup for Puppy...
by vanotee
Wed 02 May 2007, 04:51
Forum: Beginners Help ( Start Here)
Topic: 2.14 booting speedup: no pup001 file, what to do?
Replies: 10
Views: 4138

if you copy the 3 or 4 files on the cd to the hard drive, Puppy is 99% installed actually, Puppy is 100% installed (frugal install), if you consider the boot loader program to be a separate program, and not an integral part of Puppy GuestToo: W2K on 15G NTFS Partition. Pup save file and the other t...
by vanotee
Tue 01 May 2007, 22:01
Forum: Beginners Help ( Start Here)
Topic: 2.14 booting speedup: no pup001 file, what to do?
Replies: 10
Views: 4138

Booting

yes, for the latest versions of Puppy copying the pup_216.sfs and zdrv_216.sfs files from the CD to /mnt/home, where pup_save.3fs is located should do the same thing pup_save.3fs might be named pup_save.2fs, and the number in the pup_216.sfs and zdrv_216.sfs file names will correspond to the versio...
by vanotee
Thu 19 Apr 2007, 06:55
Forum: Users ( For the regulars )
Topic: How do I get my HP printers to work?
Replies: 9
Views: 4894

Re: Oh well

Thanks purple_ghost. I have used Xubuntu which prints straight out of the box, and I am going to try Beatrix soon. But I was hoping that Puppy would do the trick as in every other way it's my preferred distro. I'm using 2.15CE as I fondly hoped that someone may have got the printing right in it, bu...
by vanotee
Thu 19 Apr 2007, 06:06
Forum: Puppy Projects
Topic: wmweather in 2.15CE
Replies: 4
Views: 9642

Re: wmweather in 2.15CE

i noticed down in the quick launch button on the lower left that there was a program called wmweather. im a weather program nut. i love any kind of cool weather software especially graphical or radar rich. i was finally able to get wmweather to work after installing libcurl pup and configuring it t...