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markofkane · Joined: 03 Jul 2008 Posts: 314 Location: Kane, IL USA

I figured it out

title Puppy Linux 4.00
kernel (hd0,0)/vmlinuz PMEDIA=idehd PDEV1=hda1 psubdir=puppy400
initrd (hd0,0)/initrd.gz
boot

Change hda1 to hdb1

And placed the puppy400 folder in my second drive. Wow, that was simple. I wish I would have known in the first place.

nooby · Joined: 29 Jun 2008 Posts: 9392 Location: SwedenEurope

It is a good feeling when one get how to do it.

I am not on your level but as a noob had same
experience. I have also planned to have in a
memory stick but have been caught up with
installing on DVD and frugal install on the HDD
but a thumbdrive would be cool.

I am in solaris now but that one is too big for my
machine. Fun to test things out.

markofkane · Joined: 03 Jul 2008 Posts: 314 Location: Kane, IL USA

aw, thanks, Embarassed

but I am not that smart. Sometimes an idea comes and it helps. I am still having a few problems. Like Windows wanting to run chkdsk when I boot into windows if I save a file into a NTFS partition while running Puppy.

markofkane · Joined: 03 Jul 2008 Posts: 314 Location: Kane, IL USA

I've decided to abandon the frugal install. There's a bug where even though the pup-save file is in the same place, Puppy will not load it after so long.

I am tired of starting all over again.

nooby · Joined: 29 Jun 2008 Posts: 9392 Location: SwedenEurope

But if you tell more then Barry can fix it?
I mean he can fix it for me and all the others
who still want to use frugal install.

Give me a hint on how to find out if this happen to me too?
How did you came upon it. What to look for to know it does
happen at my place too?

Would be much appreciated.

ICPUG · Joined: 24 Jul 2005 Posts: 1278 Location: UK

markofkane,

Thanks for trying again and I'm sorry I didn't get back earlier but I have been busy on other things - like earnig some money!

I've seen some of your other posts now and everything points to a not quite perfect c: drive. You seem to have mastered the Lin'N'Win and it works. What seems to fall over is that your pupsave tends to get corrupt. Switching off your PC at the off switch rather than going through the menu-shutdown-power off computer may cause this but a disk drive with errors on it is the more likely option. If this is the case you will probably start to get the same fault when you use the CD to boot Puppy because it also has to pick off the pupsave file from the hard drive.

So far I have not tested Lin'N'Win with SP3 because I don't have it. I have not received any feedback either, although I am currently in correspondence with someone who is trying it out. I don't think SP3 would be the cause of problems though.

The only other thing to mention is that you should keep the pupsave file in the same place as the associated puppy_400.sfs and zdrv_400.sfs. If you don't then you must not use the psubdir parameter in menu.lst.

ICPUG

markofkane · Joined: 03 Jul 2008 Posts: 314 Location: Kane, IL USA

I always shutdown using the Start---Turn off computer----Turn off button in Windows, except when it, or Puppy locks up, and mouse and keyboard fail to respond.

I use the same routine for Puppy, even though it's called something else.

And I never had this to happen when I boot from the CD.

But, it could be, that GoBack might be a culprit in this.

Thommo1971 · Joined: 07 Jul 2008 Posts: 7

Ok, I've tried the Lin n Win New B tutorial and it works! I got it succesfully working on my old Acer laptop running Win98SE, and also have it installed on my main pc running WindowsXP. The thing I like about it is that it is easy to do, requires no partioning and doesn't mess up windows!

My only gripe is that it wont automatically install the driver for the cardbus Belkin wireless card - it doesn't even see it. When I try to manually install it, it still doesn't work. However, on my toshiba laptop, with a full install of Puppy on its own partition, it worked out of the box. I'm wondering if my acer has the old pcmicia slots rather than cardbus and its something to do with that?

nooby · Joined: 29 Jun 2008 Posts: 9392 Location: SwedenEurope

I have an USB version of Belkin wireless card. there is a cd
for install on Windows. I have not looked if it has drivers for linux.

I have not tried it. Mu Desktop does not need it at the moment.

carolus · Joined: 14 Feb 2007 Posts: 129

nooby · Joined: 29 Jun 2008 Posts: 9392 Location: SwedenEurope

I commented on your PMEDIA thing but I posted in wrong thread.
sorry. Good that you reminded us of such details.
I will try to change my menu.lst to small pmedia

carolus · Joined: 14 Feb 2007 Posts: 129

The method described in this rather old thread still works with current versions of Puppy, specifically Puppy 4.1.2. Having seen no postings here for a year, and since there have been changes in the bootloading software, I thought this worth a note.