Step by Step: Installing Puppy Linux to Your Hard Drive
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
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
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WinXP?
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...
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...
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Re: Step by Step: Installing Puppy Linux to Your Hard Drive
[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
Hern
2. Darik's Boot and Nuke(DBN) on a Floppy.
Where is it?
Thank you
Hern
Re: Step by Step: Installing Puppy Linux to Your Hard Drive
[quote="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 Hern
2. Darik's Boot and Nuke(DBN) on a Floppy.
Where is it? Thank you Hern
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Re: It works!
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~budden wrote:The step-by-step here works pretty much as advertised.
Note: While still in terminal, format your swap partition by "mkswap /dev/hda6" and then turn on swapping by "swapon -a" (substitute the correct name of your swap partition to "/dev/hda6"). Rebooting is not necessary after partitioning (and before hard disk install). If you rebooted the system, press this number at boot time: 3 in version 1.04, and 2 in version 1.03 - this is to restrain Puppy from using any partition for storing data.
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This, for 1.04 at least, should include a note that to complete the prevention of Puppy from using any partition ENTER should be the answer to the question. The text says so but the newbie may be confused by that text. We can never be too informative!
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Re: It works!
OK, not a happy Puppy guy here at the moment!budden wrote:The step-by-step here works pretty much as advertised.
Just spent a good deal of time downloading a bunch of pupget and dotpup and other apps, loaded them, etc. and then rebooted (Radio3 didn't respond and Java said a reboot may be required).
Nothing that I downloaded was saved! ;-(
I have no idea where to even start looking for the problem as I followed the instructions to load to HDD carefully & Grub does boot from /dev/hda2 fine, though I have to manually select that at the start and don't remember how to tell it to just autoboot hda2 unless I make a different selection within x seconds.
Grub is in the MBR.
I did select the "fancy" boot display with the penguin vs the simple one.
Other than those items it was all pretty much plain vanilla -- same as the ibm 600X but on a newer laptop.
??? doc
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Procedure Checks
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).
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).
Re: Procedure Checks
Here is a critical addition to the Load to HDD instructions ...raffy wrote: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).
Following this:
"And you're done! You can now use Puppy in hard disk. Don't forget to eject the Puppy CD from the drive."
BE SURE TO REBOOT BEFORE LOADING ANY APPS OR MAKING ANY CHANGES YOU WISH TO SAVE.
No changes made to apps or other settings are saved until the computer has been rebooted from the HDD.
doc
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Re: Procedure Checks
Tried Logout and it brought me to a Bash prompt.raffy wrote: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).
Entered "halt" and it jammed up with "Kernel Panic: Tried to kill init! error."
Reboot from Start Reboot works fine.
The Ticker app I loaded prior to the reboots was saved fine.
doc
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Re: It works!
edoc wrote:budden wrote:The step-by-step here works pretty much as advertised.
Rambling a bit ... again it works.
The instructions say 'at least 500M' for hda2. What they don't say is THIS IS THE PLACE TO USE THE WHOLE DRIVE! So I had Puppy nicely running in a fifth of the entire drive and the rest was not partitioned and not usable. So when I discovered that 1.0.5 was out (one release newer than what I'd installed), started over.
This time, having a successful install in the log, I skipped all the hda1 part since didn't intend any changes there. Echo some other comments, would be nice to dispense with MS-DOS/DR-DOS entirely, but that's somewhat of a nit since I have a copy.
fdisk: blew away hda2 and restored it ... this time with the whole drive (less hda1). NOW I have some serious working space.
Reinstallation worked fine, per instructions.
Grub does need to be reinstalled since it's config files, by default, live in /boot. Which I'd blown away and re-established. Again, per instructions.
Recommendations, to close this ramble: they pertain to the install script itself not the instructions (I know enough to pop the CD ... after all, I want the ethernet back and I can have one or the other (single PCMCIA slot), but not both). Y'oughtta be able to boot off the puppy CD and push the Setup-->Install HD menu button and be off. That script should make sure you're wholly on CD+RAM (with no hda mounted), should fork into fdisk to do surgery (with recommendations), ... There are several very good scripts in Puppy so this should be within scope.
</ramble>
1.0.5 looks nice. I like JWM -- it's a decent improvement. Still haven't found a good solution to the 1024x640 oddball screen size. The root of the problem is in xvesa with side effects shown up in JWM that I haven't found a workaround for yet (like relocating the task bar).
I didn't see a note about this anywhere so if there is one, I apologize for asking here.
I'm trying to install Chubby Puppy on a drive with Windows 2K Professional. The install part seemed to go fine though there was an area where is said a window would open so I could edit a file. That window never opened. This is a 20gig drive with only one format. I did do the boot floppy. Anyway, when I went in to try have grub install in the MBR I get a notice that it can't be done because there is no Linux partition. I had the impression I could install to the windows partition and use dual boot to operate Puppy off the hard drive. Is that wrong?
FAT32, not NTFS....
I'm trying to install Chubby Puppy on a drive with Windows 2K Professional. The install part seemed to go fine though there was an area where is said a window would open so I could edit a file. That window never opened. This is a 20gig drive with only one format. I did do the boot floppy. Anyway, when I went in to try have grub install in the MBR I get a notice that it can't be done because there is no Linux partition. I had the impression I could install to the windows partition and use dual boot to operate Puppy off the hard drive. Is that wrong?
FAT32, not NTFS....
I an using a HP Laptop with windows xp Sp2 installed. tried to use liveCd, everything was working fine but hung at the point I was supposed to select the Keyboard Layout. Nothing was responding at all.
I followed the instruction on installlation to hard disk using GRUB and it stopped at the same place. Can some one please help me this is my first time with Linux.
I would however like you to know that I installed it with Qemu emulation.
I am using Puppy 1.0.5
I followed the instruction on installlation to hard disk using GRUB and it stopped at the same place. Can some one please help me this is my first time with Linux.
I would however like you to know that I installed it with Qemu emulation.
I am using Puppy 1.0.5
This is a pet peeve/nit of mine.aahhaaa wrote: And where useful add Puppy version to the header?
It would seem a valuable list rule that everyone label the version to which they refer so we may make a more valid judgment if it is relevant to us as readers.
On the rare occasion that the version is non-critical then perhaps we need an abbreviation that flags that.
With the growth of Puppy and Puppy Forum users these small things become increasingly important.
Oh, I wrote this on a laptop using 1.0.4 ...
IMHO, YMMV .... doc
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Failure at HD install
I have gotten this far and am then asked for a password. I have nuked the entire disk and re tried about 6 times, every time it wants a password?Bruce B wrote:I tried to understand why you installed MS-DOS. I don't see any reason for it other than that you want to have a dual booting - Puppy/MS-DOS system. But this does not seem to be the reason you install MS-DOS.Mechsus wrote: I attempted to install Puppy with only an MS-DOS partition and without installing MS-DOS 6.22 - but couldn't crack it - although there must be a method (?).
Yesterday, I did some expermenting installing Puppy on a spare HD. The results of which indicate that it doesn't make any difference of you nuke the hd or install on a pre-partitioned HD, which I presume you know this. Except the nuking is as someone wrote, hygenic. But I've seen cases where nuking the drive is the only thing that gets it working right again.
If the HD is partioned you can delete the partitions by booting Puppy CD and using cfdisk or fdisk to delete the partitions.
Suppose we start off with a drive that has either been nuked or the partitions deleted with Linux fdisk or cfdisk.
The basic procedure is insert the Puppy CD and boot the computer.
Puppy won't install the pup001 file on this type of drive because there are no partitions.
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Re: Failure at HD install
Anyone know what the password is???
mayakovski wrote:I have gotten this far and am then asked for a password. I have nuked the entire disk and re tried about 6 times, every time it wants a password?Bruce B wrote:I tried to understand why you installed MS-DOS. I don't see any reason for it other than that you want to have a dual booting - Puppy/MS-DOS system. But this does not seem to be the reason you install MS-DOS.Mechsus wrote: I attempted to install Puppy with only an MS-DOS partition and without installing MS-DOS 6.22 - but couldn't crack it - although there must be a method (?).
Yesterday, I did some expermenting installing Puppy on a spare HD. The results of which indicate that it doesn't make any difference of you nuke the hd or install on a pre-partitioned HD, which I presume you know this. Except the nuking is as someone wrote, hygenic. But I've seen cases where nuking the drive is the only thing that gets it working right again.
If the HD is partioned you can delete the partitions by booting Puppy CD and using cfdisk or fdisk to delete the partitions.
Suppose we start off with a drive that has either been nuked or the partitions deleted with Linux fdisk or cfdisk.
The basic procedure is insert the Puppy CD and boot the computer.
Puppy won't install the pup001 file on this type of drive because there are no partitions.
.
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I got it going.
I never did figure out what password it wanted or where that password request came from.
But I did finally realize that Puppy cannot boot with only 49MB RAM and no swap space. I manually created a swap partition (Using a different distro that would boot in 49MB RAM and no swap space), then Puppy booted just fine for me.
But I did finally realize that Puppy cannot boot with only 49MB RAM and no swap space. I manually created a swap partition (Using a different distro that would boot in 49MB RAM and no swap space), then Puppy booted just fine for me.
Mayakovski
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Puppy Linux | Barking Up The Right Tree
Compaq Armada 1580DMT | P150, 49MB RAM - 3.2 GB HD, Puppy 1.0.6
Compaq Deskpro EN | P3-733, 384 MB RAM - 80GB HD, Puppy 1.0.7
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Puppy Linux | Barking Up The Right Tree
Compaq Armada 1580DMT | P150, 49MB RAM - 3.2 GB HD, Puppy 1.0.6
Compaq Deskpro EN | P3-733, 384 MB RAM - 80GB HD, Puppy 1.0.7
i hope someone can answer thatedoc wrote:I am trying to install Puppy on a laptop with no FDD..........
..........How does one install without the use of a FDD?
Thanks! doc
I downloaded a version of puppylinux that has firefox but its an older one from:
http://mymirrors.homelinux.org/puppy/V.0.9.6/
i don't have floppy drive and when trying to install to /dev/hda5 it requires inserting a floppy even when i press any key+enter .
besides it doesn't have the option to install grub .
is there any way around this to edit/replace the install script?
I'm on dial up and it took me 4hrs to DL the above version and can't download another.
can you please help me with that.
Thanks
Wow, that is an old post of mine!Nina wrote:i hope someone can answer thatedoc wrote:I am trying to install Puppy on a laptop with no FDD..........
..........How does one install without the use of a FDD?
Thanks! doc
I downloaded a version of puppylinux that has firefox but its an older one from:
http://mymirrors.homelinux.org/puppy/V.0.9.6/
i don't have floppy drive and when trying to install to /dev/hda5 it requires inserting a floppy even when i press any key+enter .
besides it doesn't have the option to install grub .
is there any way around this to edit/replace the install script?
I'm on dial up and it took me 4hrs to DL the above version and can't download another. can you please help me with that. Thanks
You really want to download Puppy 1.0.6 or one of the enhanced versions such as Chubby Puppy or Grafpup.
You then burn the .iso file to a CD (or have a friend do it for you if you have problems with your cd burner as I do), place the CD in the drive and reboot.
Puppy will load up with only a few questions about your keyboard, mouse, and video preferences.
Once running you may use Setup to get it to activate your modem or network card (for high speed access) and other resources.
HTH ... doc
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