Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

[wuwei]

During the last couple of days we had a discussion over in the German forum about the procedures of a frugal installation of a further Puppy after a first Puppy is already installed.
For those of you who might be interested in a translated version I have summarized and extended the German version as follows:

A first suggestion for a frugal installation was ...

With CD

1. copy browser and email data to another partition
2. download ISO and burn to CD
3. start CD and partition your HDD
4. use Universal Installer for a frugal installation
5. install Grub to its own small partition
6. Reboot into the new Puppy; install browser and email client
7. copy back saved browser and email data
8. install other programs


Since this poster used a CD for the installation of – another – Puppy, a method was suggested that avoids burning a CD:

Without CD

First step:
Only necessary for the very first Puppy on a given PC without any grub installed.

>download the desired ISO
>Burn to CD; in Win use e.g. ImgBurn
>Start CD; boot parameter pfix=ram recommended when remnants of previous Puppies could be present
> Partition with gparted; one ext2/3 partition for all planned Puppies; one swap partition. Size min 1GB per Puppy and 2GB for sundry. Swap = 2x RAM, max 1GB.
> Create one subdirectory per Puppy on ext2/3 partition, e.g. "525". Mount CD-drive and copy all files from CD to new subdirectory (actually only 3 are needed but the others are tiny and this way its much simpler for newbies).
>Install Grub with menu-system-grub bootloader config. Choose "simple" und "MBR" when asked. Put folder /boot on ext2/3 partition.
>Goto folder /boot/grub and open menu.lst. Change entry for Puppy 525 to read similar to this:

[nooby]

Don't get me wrong now. I am not into criticizing at all. Just trying to be practical and logical and friendly

Some users don't want to do partitions and formatting and resizeing and such.

And if they only need to use puppy and other linux that boot on NTFS then they don't ahve to do any of that and can still boot on NTFS using both old grub1 and grub4dos and it just work.

Shinobar using the grub4dosconfig pet/program made a copy of the MBR so one could restore it if something went wrong and then he helped me install frugal puppy on the Ms Wind7 partition which is NTFS on my Acer D250 and it worked just fine.

I am also booting several slax version and even one Arch Linux and Knoppix on it. Using a USB stick with grub2 on it I can also boot Several ubuntu in live CD frugal install on the NTFS hdd. Works great.

So apart from the description given here one could add what I refer to now. Flexibility and choice is a good thing. More options for the user.

[r1tz]

hmm... you might want to state the countless number of ways to do this, like using a USB loaded with a bootloader.

[bodbozzle]