I am completely new to this and trying to use version 3.01 on my old Toshiba Portege 3480CT
Pentium III, 600MHz, 192M RAM.
I get to:
Searching for Puppy files in computer disk drives... pup_301.sfs not found dropping out to initial-ramdisk console...
/bin/sh: can't access tty; job control turned off
#
with a blinking cursor.
I see the hard disk spin during the search for the files but not the CD drive I am booting off which is presumably where the file needed is located??
Have tried the retro version and the ide=nodma command as suggested in another post.
Help appreciated, I've loaded this system on my Pentium 4, 3Ghz, 1G RAM no problem.
3.01 CD won't boot in Toshiba 3480CT
This seems really odd. The fact that no one of the experts has yet given an answer makes me think it's a not-so-simple problem.
Your description makes me quite curious, as I've tried Puppy on a number of different PCs and it worked on all of 'em.
*Beware, I'm actually no expert, so don't take my words too seriously: but the only explanation I can dream of is a buggy or very particular BIOS.*
Did you also try with a "WakePup" floppy?
Your description makes me quite curious, as I've tried Puppy on a number of different PCs and it worked on all of 'em.
*Beware, I'm actually no expert, so don't take my words too seriously: but the only explanation I can dream of is a buggy or very particular BIOS.*
Did you also try with a "WakePup" floppy?
The WakePup floppy is one thing I never needed till now, so all I know is: if it's in the Setup menu it should work.
If I got it right, it simply tells the path where the Puppy files must be looked for (i.e., the CD-ROM), so the version shouldn't make a difference. Anyway, the proof of the pudding is in the eating and I'd like to know your results.
If I got it right, it simply tells the path where the Puppy files must be looked for (i.e., the CD-ROM), so the version shouldn't make a difference. Anyway, the proof of the pudding is in the eating and I'd like to know your results.
Another way around your problem is through the USB port. Get a flash drive and copy the four core Puppy files over from the Live CD - vmlinuz, initrd.gz, pupxxx.sfs and zdrvxxx.sfs.
Boot off the Live CD and at the 5-second initial boot prompt, type:
puppy PMEDIA=usbflash
If your machine only has USB 1.0, this will be slow. But once you have Puppy running, you can look at doing a hard drive install.
Boot off the Live CD and at the 5-second initial boot prompt, type:
puppy PMEDIA=usbflash
If your machine only has USB 1.0, this will be slow. But once you have Puppy running, you can look at doing a hard drive install.
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puppy install on 3480CT
Took me around 2 days of playing about and trying to work it out - ive ended up with the latest distro v.4 to get it working and it almost works.
The install with the supplied Toshiba CD rom didnt work and i tried every way of doing it that i could think of. I then tried running it live from the cd and that doesnt work as puppy seams to ignore the cd drive - must be cd driver issue. Then the USB route - its doesnt boot from the usb, Then the floppy route and it still misses the cd drive again.
So i resorted to removing the HDD and putting into another laptop, installing and then putting the hdd back into the 3480ct - and PRESTO - we have a puppy running - nicely - but as mentioned somewhere with i believe redhat 6.2 the network card doesnt work and crashes, ive tried a pcmcia network and 2 different wifi cards and the the drivers they were attached to didnt support WEP encription, so internet wasnt going to happen. So with this - I gave up - i got it working which was what I really wanted to do, just without network support. - I dont want to mention it on the puppy forums but I have installed DSL - DamnSmallLinux and it worked perfectly with internet access and full network support. - I prefer puppy thou
- have fiun
Andy
xxx
ohh and DSL wouldnt recognise the CD drive either - actually there were only 2 distros that did work - susie was one- forgotten the other
ran very slow thou
xx
The install with the supplied Toshiba CD rom didnt work and i tried every way of doing it that i could think of. I then tried running it live from the cd and that doesnt work as puppy seams to ignore the cd drive - must be cd driver issue. Then the USB route - its doesnt boot from the usb, Then the floppy route and it still misses the cd drive again.
So i resorted to removing the HDD and putting into another laptop, installing and then putting the hdd back into the 3480ct - and PRESTO - we have a puppy running - nicely - but as mentioned somewhere with i believe redhat 6.2 the network card doesnt work and crashes, ive tried a pcmcia network and 2 different wifi cards and the the drivers they were attached to didnt support WEP encription, so internet wasnt going to happen. So with this - I gave up - i got it working which was what I really wanted to do, just without network support. - I dont want to mention it on the puppy forums but I have installed DSL - DamnSmallLinux and it worked perfectly with internet access and full network support. - I prefer puppy thou
- have fiunAndy
xxx
ohh and DSL wouldnt recognise the CD drive either - actually there were only 2 distros that did work - susie was one- forgotten the other
ran very slow thou
xx
Sorry that I hadn't seen this thread earlier, but I found that an alternative to getting around the hard-drive-swapping issue with Puppy installations is this great resource from rcrsn51 called "grubflop" http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=16950. I prepared the floppy from within XP. Works like a dream for my Toshiba Satellite 430CDS (internal CD-rom). Serves better than floppy installation disks of other Linux flavours that I've tried on this machine (e.g., SlitTaz-lorem 2.0, DeLi 0.8 etc) . Will also boot CDs like UBCD. Perfect solution for old BIOS' that won't permit boot from CD-ROM. Will post back if it doesn't work for my Portege 3480CT.
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