Puppy CD won't boot [Solved]
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Puppy CD won't boot [Solved]
Hey, I'm a complete newbie here, and I wanted to put Puppy on my old laptop, a Dell inspiron 2200.
So I downloaded the ISO and put it onto a blank CD. I then turned on my laptop, put in the CD and re-booted it.
Just so you know, the laptop has jolicloud on it.
The laptop then just went straight into jolicloud, so I pressed F2 and changed it so the CD/DVD drive booted first. But still no luck, it still starts booting jolicloud. :/
Any suggestions/help? I've been looking everywhere for an answer and I haven't found any yet. :'(
So I downloaded the ISO and put it onto a blank CD. I then turned on my laptop, put in the CD and re-booted it.
Just so you know, the laptop has jolicloud on it.
The laptop then just went straight into jolicloud, so I pressed F2 and changed it so the CD/DVD drive booted first. But still no luck, it still starts booting jolicloud. :/
Any suggestions/help? I've been looking everywhere for an answer and I haven't found any yet. :'(
Last edited by blondbananamix on Thu 12 May 2011, 21:30, edited 1 time in total.
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What files does your CD now have on it? For Puppy 5.2.5, it should have boot.cat, boot.msg, help2.msg, help.msg, initrd.gz, isolinux.bin, isolinux.cfg, logo_16, lupu_525.sfs (the Puppy main file), and vmlinuz (the Linux operating system kernel). If it doesn't have them, the ISO may not have been burned to the CD in the right way.
It's stupid to use inferior software for ideological reasons.
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You need to burn the ISO file to a CD/DVD first.
Let me explain. The ISO is a single file that is an image of a bootable disk. I'm not familiar with jolicloud but it may have some CD/DVD burning software on it such as burniso2cd.
Once you have burned the CD, rather than just copying it as you have, it should boot providing you have you boot sequence set to CD first.
Let me explain. The ISO is a single file that is an image of a bootable disk. I'm not familiar with jolicloud but it may have some CD/DVD burning software on it such as burniso2cd.
Once you have burned the CD, rather than just copying it as you have, it should boot providing you have you boot sequence set to CD first.
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I download the ISO file onto my computer, which is running windows, I then inserted a blank disk and added the File there. I then used the CD in my laptop. And the problem above happened. I had to extract the files on my computer into a spare folder in my documents so I could read out the files to you.
I'm about to see if I can look at the files on my laptop, and then re-name them there.
I'm about to see if I can look at the files on my laptop, and then re-name them there.
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Extracting the files from the ISO is not enough to make the cd boot as it needs to write to the boot sectors of the disc.
In windows 7 you should have a program call burncd or cdburn that will do the trick.
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/wind ... n-ISO-file
In windows 7 you should have a program call burncd or cdburn that will do the trick.
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/wind ... n-ISO-file
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The Puppy ISO file is an image file.
When you burn it to a CD.
You need to use the option in the burner program,
Burn ISO Image
This is a special type of burning process.
Use a low burn speed. 8X or less.
Download and try this burner program in Windows
CD BurnerXP
http://cdburnerxp.se/download
When you burn it to a CD.
You need to use the option in the burner program,
Burn ISO Image
This is a special type of burning process.
Use a low burn speed. 8X or less.
Download and try this burner program in Windows
CD BurnerXP
http://cdburnerxp.se/download
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