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50Mb Puppies to use as business card Rescue CD

#1 Post by greengeek »

This post details my testing of Puppy isos that weigh in around‭ ‬50Mb for the purposes of burning to a‭ “‬credit card‭ ‬/‭ ‬business card‭
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#2 Post by Volhout »

Didn't know there where so many sub-50Mb puppies.

It is not 50Mb, but a small and good pup is browserlinux from GCMartin.
I find that while rescueing PC's I often need to visit modern web pages to get mainboard drivers. And that requires a good browser (for me). Need for Abiword for rescueing is low for me.

Good luck with your investigation.

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#3 Post by greengeek »

Volhout wrote:.. a small and good pup is browserlinux from GCMartin.
I had no idea that browserlinux was produced by gcmartin, I thought it was from 'puppymartin"? gcmartin guided me through setting up "boot from PXE" on puppy so I Iearnt how talented, patient and clear he is.

Browserlinux is one of my favourites - as is Mijnpup which I think is also from puppymartin. Are gcmartin and puppymartin one and the same perhaps?

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my Oops ....

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my Oops ....

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#6 Post by Aitch »

puppymartin did browserlinux and is dutch, I believe
Apart from the puppy he also did this, a variant of the well-minded search I think...

http://www.browserlinux.com/google/

gcmartin is definitely a different member, has been far longer

a great pair of 'house-martins' :wink: :D

Aitch :)

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#7 Post by oui »

hi greengeek

thank you very much for this overview!

I know I have somewhere (CD or hard disk) more in this kind of small Puppies

a 50 mb version 1.04 or 1.05
a 99 mb version 2.0 or 2.02 with OpenOffice integrated!
a fatfree 3.01
the white fang puppy no. 2
a all on RW-CD puppy (don't uses hard disk at all and can handle unlimited sessions as the new session overwrites the last old session; the usual use was not this - the new sessions came also on the disk until the disk is full and after that, it is even finish!)
divers old puppy older as the version 1.0 (I think 0.41, it was the first Puppy theorically able to work with samba, 47 mb if I right remember, 0.27, it was probably the last Puppy under 30 mb, and probably 0.23, about 20..22 mb, I suppose it was "my" first Puppy and I did discover it visiting the site of Menu OS where Barry Kauler was active a few time before and making advertisement for it on his own web pages.
I also have probably a Iso of two micro-Puppy's with about 10 mb

but

I did spend a lot of time to copy a functional copy of White fang the last time I did try (and did do with success) to recover it for an other Puppy fan because the CD are really hard to read with newer but already used new CD drives. and I have actually no A/C adapter for 3" hard disk. I will try to make an archive of some (the ones being so kind to accept to be copied without problem after this long years) of above goodies in the next months and upload it on a free upload place in the web. I invite Puppy fans being eventually interesting to download it to follow this thread as usually the uploads not stay longer on line if nobody download them within 4 weeks. I as have no own repository, I will not make it more as one time.

it makes a funny satisfaction to start them with qemu-0.91-launchscript-SDL-1.29.pet ! as the computers were really very slower as those Puppy's were actual, you can about get, after the start (as the upload of the system through qemu is very, not very, dramatically slow) the impression to review this time!

it is easy:

install qemu-0.91-launchscript-SDL-1.29.pet

copy an ISO in /root

go in menu > utilities

hit on the launchscript icon

it is all what is to do :lol: !

have fun time with the old puppy's

of course, you also can try to start them in real old style from CD...

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#8 Post by greengeek »

oui wrote: it is easy:
install qemu-0.91-launchscript-SDL-1.29.pet
Merci Oui!

I will give that a try.

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#9 Post by Aitch »

Its also possible to instal without burning a CD, by loopmounting the ISO...

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=28913

If in puppy instead of *buntu, ignore the sudos and use your own text editor for nano references, and obviously adjust menu.lst partitions and puppy versions to suit

Aitch :)

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#10 Post by dejan555 »

there was a small puplet by wow based on 3.x or 4.1.x noname pup or something like that it used lxde I think it's about 50 MB with dillo
puppy.b0x.me stuff mirrored [url=https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B_Mb589v0iCXNnhSZWRwd3R2UWs]HERE[/url] or [url=http://archive.org/details/Puppy_Linux_puppy.b0x.me_mirror]HERE[/url]

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dejan555 wrote:there was a small puplet by wow based on 3.x or 4.1.x noname pup or something like that it used lxde I think it's about 50 MB with dillo
Thanks Dejan. I'm googling it but no luck so far. Was "wow" the name of the puplet creator?

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#12 Post by Keef »

Is it this?
Unnamed pupplet (puppy411 kernel-2.6.27.5 Xorg-7.4 LXDE)
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=36592
More like 70MB. Haven't tried it myself.

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#13 Post by CatDude »

Hello greengeek
greengeek wrote:......
...........
Barebones 1.04
(I decided this is not good to use as it writes a PUP001 file to HDD)
No it won't,
not if you do the following. (see pics)

At the initial boot screen, type the number 3
then hit Enter.

At the first pause at the red text, hit Enter again.

At the second pause at the red text, just wait 10 seconds,
and it will continue on it's merry way.

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#14 Post by dejan555 »

Keef, that might be it, will download and try I remember it was really small but maybe not 50 MB afterall.
puppy.b0x.me stuff mirrored [url=https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B_Mb589v0iCXNnhSZWRwd3R2UWs]HERE[/url] or [url=http://archive.org/details/Puppy_Linux_puppy.b0x.me_mirror]HERE[/url]

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#15 Post by greengeek »

CatDude wrote: not if you do the following. (see pics)
At the initial boot screen, type the number 3 then hit Enter.
At the first pause at the red text, hit Enter again.
At the second pause at the red text, just wait 10 seconds,
and it will continue on it's merry way.
Hi Catdude, many thanks for that. I guess the wording of "choose HD" stopped me from trying it, given that I wanted to "exclude HD".

I wish I had known this tip years ago - the one thing that drove me away from Puppy Unleashed 0.9 was the pup001 file on my HDD.

I didn't come back to Puppy for a long time - and missed the fun of the 2 and 3 series.

I should have done more research!

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#16 Post by greengeek »

dejan555 wrote:Keef, that might be it, will download and try I remember it was really small but maybe not 50 MB afterall.
Thanks Dejan/Keef

Looks like this is the puplet:

Unnamed pupplet (puppy411 kernel-2.6.27.5 Xorg-7.4 LXDE)
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=36592

Unnamed puplet 1.1 (puppy411 kernel-2.6.28.5 Xorg-7.4 LXDE
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=39154

It comes in two varieties as shown. Both slightly too big for my purposes here though. (Although they seem to have won rave reviews for the graphics quality etc)

oui

#17 Post by oui »

I suppose you all did see it

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 717#612717

(only to be sure!)

One important notice:

each puppy can immediately be an rescue Puppy if you have on your hard disk only a few but important tools.

the most important is probably the

- testdisk-6.11.3.pet :idea: (note: I don't know if it can handle ext4-files!)

I can not understand why we have a lot of doubles in each Puppy but not testdisk! Each Puppy would be with it a kind of major rescue software...

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#18 Post by greengeek »

oui wrote:I suppose you all did see it

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 717#612717
Thanks Oui. I have now added that White Fang url to my first post

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#19 Post by greengeek »

I have edited my first post to include links to Catdudes collection of pre-version 2 puppies, and also a link to goingnuts "pup'n'go" topic regarding a super-cut-down puppy.

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#20 Post by darkcity »

very useful thread, added to wiki http://puppylinux.org/wikka/Barebones 8)

Information about which kernel each Puppy uses would be useful ; -)

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