Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

[Mechsus]

[Bancobusto]

Mechsus, I think that this will explain it to you better then I could http://www.murga.org/%7Epuppy/viewtopic.php?t=661&highlight=wiki

[danleff]

Mechsus, I edited (formatting) the page this am, but there is a little bit yet to go.

Let me know if I can assist in any way.

P.S. Looks like someone finished it. Looks pretty good.

[budden]

The step-by-step here works pretty much as advertised.


Nits. The canned script in the Puppy menu was not working -- somehow it wouldn't adapt to my particular situation. So I rooted around and found this.
- I used DR-DOS for the first partition rather than MS-DOS (because that's what I have on the dusty shelf). No particular diff, but seems that we ought to be able to garage-sale that stuff and do without entirely?
- the disk scrubbing is hygiene but not necessary to the install. I skipped because I didn't have the app.
- GRUB worked exactly as advertised. Read the edits to menu.lst to the mirror -- could use a slight editing for clarity (like what do you do with the 3 lines that are there already?). I cp'd a bak file first.



Hardware. I inherited a 1999-vintage Sony Vaio Picturebook PCG-C1X (the price was right). PCMCIA CDROM and USB floppy. And a 4G hda. The strange part about the hardware is that this is a dinky laptop, with a 1024x480 screen. It will work with 1024x762 but the bottom is chopped off...

Several other Linux installs hang because they boot the kernel but forget the PCMCIA interface somewhere in the boot process and can't get back to the CD to do any real installation. The one exception to that was Fedora Core 3 which did install to completion. But on reboot it promptly forgot about the PCMCIA CD interface ... (Core 4 hangs somewhere in bootup).

Puppy was one of the exceptions --it booted reliably from the CD, keep the PCMCIA interface intact and has low graphics overhead (GNOME, on the other hand, is very slow on older machines like this with comparatively low graphics RAM).

[Bruce B]

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I am trying to install Puppy on a laptop with no FDD.

It appears that something is amiss with the linux partitioning (no M$ product has every sullied that HDD) as Puppy keeps complaining that it cannot set up on hda1 or hda2.

How does one install without the use of a FDD?

I can boot Puppy from CD using the ISO but don't see an app in Puppy that will repartition my 40GB HDD.

Thanks! doc

[raffy]

WinXP partitions can't be written on yet by Puppy, and if it isn't WinXP, you have to press 2 (v.1.03) or 3 (v.1.04) at boot time so Puppy will not use the existing partitions.

You can still install Puppy to WinXP, just explore the link below:

The repartitioning is "cfdisk" while in console (rxvt). If the hard disk is loaded with WinXP, your best bet is delete first the entire partition and create new ones, and hope Puppy will save the changes... Or hope that you wont lose data there...

[HernanL]

[quote="Mechsus"]Step by Step: Installing Puppy Linux to Your Hard Drive
2. Darik's Boot and Nuke(DBN) on a Floppy.

Where is it?

Thank you

Hernán

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[raffy]

If you installed to hard disk, did you actually start Puppy from hard disk?

If you started from CD, did you actually allow Puppy to use the hard drive? (i.e., no pressing of 2 or 3 at boot time)

If the answer is "No" to either, that can happen (nothing saved to hard disk).

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[raffy]

Yes, a computer shutdown via the Start button does the shutdown better.

OK, congrats for your success, and thanks for the updates (we're all learning, aren't we ).