Simple Installer

[GuestToo]

unless it is a full normal install to a dedicated partition, in which case menu.lst for Puppy 1.x and 2.x would be about the same

[muggins]

ecomoney,

i just emailed you a gzipped grub file with menu.lst to boot cdrom's. this could be useful if you have to refurbish older computers that don't have bios support for cdrom boot.

also, for your clients that want to use puppy & windows, have you considered pupwin98?

http://www.freeveda.org/linux/puppy/PupWin98.htm

i think there's also a thread where someone's modified it, (successfully ?), to boot with pup2x version.

[raffy]

I guess I posted early on in the discussion the link to http://ph-islands.net/pupinstall - an old tutorial of mine in hard disk install of Puppy, but my post seems to be missing. Anyway, I hope that the link can help newbies - it's also in Flash's sticky at the beginner's section.

[edoc]

also, for your clients that want to use puppy & windows, have you considered pupwin98?

http://www.freeveda.org/linux/puppy/PupWin98.htm

i think there's also a thread where someone's modified it, (successfully ?), to boot with pup2x version.

Anyone know where the Puppy 2.x verion of pupwin98 resides,
please?

[muggins]

hi edoc,

this is the link i was referring to:

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... ws&t=12491

icpug also has a useful guide for windows users here:

http://www.icpug.org.uk/national/linnwi ... innwin.htm

[Leith]

I've now managed to get Puppy version 2.11 installed onto the hard disc. After much trial and error - good learning strategy - I've managed to copy vmlinus, initrd.gz and pup_211.sfs copied to a /boot directory. I've moved menu.lst to the same folder and have modified the menu.lst file to include the following:
timeout 10
title Puppy Linux
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinus root=/dev/ram0
initrd /boot/initrd.gz

I can't for the life of me find the file zdrv_211.sfs on the CD to move it into the same directory as the other "important" files.

I am now getting the error:
ERROR: cant find Puppy on 'idehd' boot media. Pupmode=9 Pdev=hda1 exited to initial-ramdisk (/dev/ram0) command line. (the linux-guru can now debug, 'e3' editor is available)

I feel I'm getting closer each time I play with the system, certainly I'm learning more about the linux operating system - which can't be bad!!

Is the error message above associated with the file zdrv_211.sfs? and
Where (expletive deleted!!) can I find the zdrv_211.sfs file on the CD?

If I could crack this I'd be a happy happy puppy user!!!

Can anybody help please. Thanks in anticipation.

[muggins]

leith,

i thought zdrv_2xx.sfs only came out with pupversion 2.12. with 2.12, you can download an iso with zdrv_212.sfs included, or download them separately. see:

http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/dis ... uppylinux/

for your menu.lst and a frugal install, besides copying initrd.gz, vmlinuz & pup_2xx.sfs, there's also a small file idehd

then in menu.lst you would have:

root (hd0,0)
kernel (hd0,0)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/ram0 PMEDIA=idehd
initrd (hd0,0)/boot/initrd.gz

some people have reported success with replacing the second line with:

kernel (hd0,0)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/ram0 ro vga=normal

[raffy]

Tips: use "vmlinuz" - I saw that it's vmlinus (with s) above.

If vmlinuz and initrd.gz are in /boot directory, those entries are fine. But pup_211.sfs should be in root (that is, outside, not inside any directory).