Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

VJ · Joined: 13 Nov 2005 Posts: 3

I'm looking for a small distro for my USB key, and Puppy is edging it at the moment, but I need to know one thing, can it boot up inside another operating system like DSL? I prefer Puppy because it's less US centric, eg it runs GAIM instead of NAIM, so I can chat to my mates on MSN (the major IM client here in the UK) and it dosn't 'cheat' by taking up more & more space like DSL does.

Thanks

MU · Posted: Mon 14 Nov 2005, 07:12 Post subject:

Pupppy runs from CD.

Insert CD, reboot Computer - go.

On a USB-Stick it depends.
Some people use it together with other systems using a boot-loader like grub.
Some people boot from a floppy (as not every USB-device can boot puppy directly).

Mark

VJ · Joined: 13 Nov 2005 Posts: 3

Thanks for the reply, but that's not quite what I meant, according to the DSL website:
"Boot from within a host operating system (that's right, it can run *inside* Windows)"
I was wondering if Puppy could do the same, or configured to do the same?

MU · Posted: Mon 14 Nov 2005, 07:47 Post subject:

DSL uses Qemu.
There is a Qemu-Puppy:
http://www.erikveen.dds.nl/qemupuppy/index.html

But Qemu emulates a second Computer with BIOS and so on.
That makes it slow, and so you loose one of Puppys main advantages: speed. (Qemu runs slow even on my Celeron 2,2 Ghz)

It takes just some seconds to boot the "real" puppy, and most DSL-apps should be available for Puppy, too.
In fact, some additional Dotpups are simply converted DSL-packages.

So I would suggest to use a "real" puppy instead of a slow Qemu-solution.

Mark

VJ · Joined: 13 Nov 2005 Posts: 3

Thanks, Puppy it is then; It was for the apps & size I prefered Puppy to start with, so I doubt I'll be downloading too many more Smile

I may have to use Qemu to boot Puppy on my Uni computers (the only reason I was asking this question), of course e3lsewhere I'll boot into puppy (or my other distro of choice Ubuntu; installed on my home PC).

ke4nt · Joined: 15 Nov 2005 Posts: 1

Another thing to try is the free vmware player, for either linux or M$ ..
Bootup your .iso using vmware, and you can use many different
OSes from within another one..

http://www.vmware.com/download/player/

73
ke4nt

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