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daklander · Guest

I didn't see a note about this anywhere so if there is one, I apologize for asking here.
I'm trying to install Chubby Puppy on a drive with Windows 2K Professional. The install part seemed to go fine though there was an area where is said a window would open so I could edit a file. That window never opened. This is a 20gig drive with only one format. I did do the boot floppy. Anyway, when I went in to try have grub install in the MBR I get a notice that it can't be done because there is no Linux partition. I had the impression I could install to the windows partition and use dual boot to operate Puppy off the hard drive. Is that wrong?
FAT32, not NTFS....

Guest · Guest

I an using a HP Laptop with windows xp Sp2 installed. tried to use liveCd, everything was working fine but hung at the point I was supposed to select the Keyboard Layout. Nothing was responding at all.
I followed the instruction on installlation to hard disk using GRUB and it stopped at the same place. Can some one please help me this is my first time with Linux.
I would however like you to know that I installed it with Qemu emulation.
I am using Puppy 1.0.5

aahhaaa · Posted: Thu 10 Nov 2005, 21:03 Post subject:

imho- this and some other HOWTO threads are getting confusing and dated. The info is getting mixed with unanswered Qs too.

Could the mods maybe lock these HOWTOs when complete & maybe cross-ref with the wiki or the Documentation project? And where useful add Puppy version to the header?

edoc · Posted: Fri 11 Nov 2005, 21:11 Post subject:

mayakovski · Joined: 19 Nov 2005 Posts: 124 Location: Comox, BC, CANADA

mayakovski · Joined: 19 Nov 2005 Posts: 124 Location: Comox, BC, CANADA

Anyone know what the password is??? Crying or Very sad

mayakovski · Joined: 19 Nov 2005 Posts: 124 Location: Comox, BC, CANADA

I never did figure out what password it wanted or where that password request came from.

But I did finally realize that Puppy cannot boot with only 49MB RAM and no swap space. I manually created a swap partition (Using a different distro that would boot in 49MB RAM and no swap space), then Puppy booted just fine for me. Razz

Nina · Guest

edoc · Posted: Tue 06 Dec 2005, 01:07 Post subject:

kb9tua · Joined: 28 Jun 2005 Posts: 6

Here's how I did it. Very simple and from one of the hd install examples.

First I installed SUSE 10.0 and partitioned the hd (one excusively for puppy). I then copied vmlinuz, image.gz and usr_cram.fs into that partition (below the 1024 boot section). Then I opened the grub.conf(/boot/grub/grub.conf) file (operating from SUSE 10.0). Next, I typed in the following between other grub menu choices:

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title Puppy Linux
rootnoverify (hd0,2)
kernel /vmlinuz root=/dev/ram0 PFILE=pup1-none-524288 PHOME=hda3
initrd /image.gz
---------------------------------------------

hda3 aka hd0,2 happens to be the partion that I set aside for puppy. I saved the file and re-booted. The grub bootloader came up with my Puppy Linux selection. When I selected it...the dog was running from my hard drive. The SUSE option still works too. Two, count em. Two Linux OS's and no windows to speak of. I also have a home LAN set up. My Linux box and my wife's Winbox going into a router then into a cable modem. I can access files on her Winbox from both puppy and SUSE as well as surf the net. What more could a comp-nerd ask for.

atwin · Joined: 10 Mar 2006 Posts: 1

The install procedure works fine...

Thanks

Very Happy

TPittman · Joined: 21 Apr 2006 Posts: 5

The links here seem to be mostly broken. Frex,

http://www.goosee.com/puppy/wikka/HardDiskInstall

turns up 404 not found.

I bought a dual-boot PC (WinXP+Linux) "everything installed and working." The linux is DOA (more accurately, in a Terri Schiavo coma: appears functional but unable to do anything), and I want to replace it with Puppy (which actually works :-) but I know nothing at all about the three Linux partitions except that one is named "Swapfile". Are there instructions for doing this? I have no basis in knowledge nor experience for knowing which of the many options Puppy offers to select from.

Tom Pittman

muggins · Joined: 20 Jan 2006 Posts: 6751 Location: hobart

tom,

if your the linux on your hard disk is non-functional, & you're going to wipe it & install puppy, this is easy to do, but you have to know what partitions you've got & what's on them.

linux fdisk is a powerful, & easy to use utility, (when you know how), that will give you such info. here's a link to a guide to using fdisk:

http://www.justlinux.com/nhf/Installation/Using_fdisk.html

all you need to do is boot your puppy cd, open a console window, type "fdisk /dev/hda", then type "p", to show your partition info, then just write down which partition your linux is on ,& where your swap is, then "q" will quit without changing anything.

then you've got to decide if you want an option1 or option2 install. because i'm to lazy to go into the first, i'll only mention the latter install. just select the puppy "install to hard drive" option, select "2", then enter the appropriate partition, then follow the rest of barry's prompts.

one thing to be wary of though, with your windows xp partition, is that whereas puppy has no problems writing to xp on a fat32 partition, doing so to an ntfs installation is fraught with danger.

smog · Joined: 13 Jun 2006 Posts: 134

when I installed puppy on to my hard drive and used the grub file below;

title Puppy Linux
rootnoverify (hd0,4)
kernel /vmlinuz root=/dev/ram0 PFILE=pup1-none-524288 PHOME=hda5
initrd /image.gz

puppy boots from the hd if the puppy dvd is not in the drive, BUT if the dvd is in the pc, it still boots from the dvd, not the hard drive.

Any ideas how I can force the hard drive to boot even when the dvd is in the dvd drive?

Thanks