Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

[pakt]

[Sage]

Some feedback. Was only able to makedisk from within a DOS window under W98. The resulting boot disk appears to have an ASPI driver and apparently seeks scsi drives, but then fails to continue whatever it does to scsi about halfway through? Any chance of including scsi HDs, please?
Can it be extended to seek ext2/3 drives?

[pakt]

[Sage]

I am not a SW person! I fiddle a lot with the HW and suffer miserably where SW is concerned! This:
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=9377
may be relevant?
As you know, W98 has generic ASPI drivers from Adaptec in the initial detection & booting phase. Not sure how this helps?
As you'll see from the live thread above, we have discovered that the 2.6 kernel used in P2.13 contains a wide selection of PCI scsi drivers, as does DSL. Not sure how useful/relevant his might be in the present context? In complete ignorance, I would suspect that some generic-type drivers that suit a range of Adaptec, Advansys, initio, Symbios, etc cards should hit the mark?
Testing your hard work may be the limit of my ability. So, Paul, whatever you might be able to accomplish will be gratefully received!

[marc66thomas]

See for example http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=14068

[dsulmon]

I'm trying to use wakepup to launch a puppy saved in a subdirectory. I've been able to modify the autoexec file saved on the disk so that wakepup is able to locate the idehd and start linux. However, soon afterwards, the program reports that it is unable to locate puppy.
Is there an easy way to fix this?

Thanks for the help

[pakt]

[msumner]

Hi Guys, I am trying to boot an old P2 box with a wakepup floppy but it has thrown this at me:

Unable to open ASPI Manager!
ASPIDISK. SYS is not installed.
Invalid Opcode at 00C3 235B 0A03 80AF 1295 1295 1285 AAAA AAAA AAAA AAAA BFBF BFBF
Bad or missing command interpreter: A:\command.com A:\ /E:1024/F /MSG /P=A:\AUTOEXEC.BAT
Enter the full shell command line:

Does anyone know what I need to put in here? Thanks.
Cheers, Mike

[pakt]

[msumner]

Thanks Paul, I wrote a new floppy and this time it got started properly but still didn't manage to force a boot from the cd, the flash or the hard drive.
I did manage to get it up and running though, by putting the hard drive into another box that boots from cd and set up a type 2 full install. When I swopped the drive back to the old box, it booted fine. It is ok with stuff like abiword but painfully slow with anything more resource hungry. It appears to only have about 28mb of RAM and I don't know the processor speed, so I made a swap partition of 250mb.

Is there a way of getting the system specs from the command line, like processor speed, motherboad and size of RAM?
Cheers, Mike

[pakt]

[msumner]

Thanks Paul, that will be useful
Cheers, Mike.

[whittycat]

I have a laptop with a dodgy hard disk so it seemed a good idea to run puppy on a USB pendrive and use wakepup to start it. I read the instructions carefully and

1 d/l the puppy iso and copied it to the Windows XP disk
2 d/l isobuster and copied that to the Windows disk
3 fire up Windows XP and format the pen drive; I had a choice of FAT32 or FAT and I chose FAT
4 unpack the iso and copy the files to the pen drive, which now has
vmlinuz initrd.gz pup_200.sfs
5 fire up linux, mount the pen drive and touch USBFLASH
6 d/l wakepup2.gz, unzip it and do
dd if=WKPUP202.IMG of=/dev/fd0 bs=1440k
7 leave the floppy in and reboot

What happens is

" ASPI device ID:0 LUN:0=Kingston Data Traveller ...
Installed ASPI manager

Checking any USB driver for marker USBFLASH

Checking IDE ....

No device found with marker (or something like that)"

but the marker is really there !!

Wakepup2 leaves you with a DOS prompt so I typed A:, B:, C: etc and found that E: recognized a device with a volume label but NO FILES (DIR said 'file not found').

What am I doing wrong? It does work with a pen drive? Or is it only Compact Flash? Is there something odd about the Kingston drive? Why does wakepup tell me the drive is empty when I can mount the drive and see them loud and clear.

whittycat

[Sit Heel Speak]

First of all, don't use Puppy 2.01 with an ntfs hard drive...only in 2.02 did Puppy gain ntfs read-write capability...better if you use 2.10 or higher.

I'm using wkpup2x to boot 2.15CE on a 2GB USB stick through a USB 2 port, and can also boot with wkpup2x through a USB 2 PCMCIA adapter. However if in a USB 1 port, then use the earlier wakeusb 0.1.

What menu options (e.g. acpi on? Off?) are you choosing?

Also, copy your usb stick's boot configuration file, linld.cfg, as a reply.

Also, filename case matters. Post here a directory listing of the stick, like from a Windows command-line window.

HTH,
SHS

[whittycat]

> First of all, don't use Puppy 2.01 with an ntfs hard drive.

I don't have a ntfs drive anywhere.

> I'm using wkpup2x to boot 2.15CE on a 2GB USB stick through a USB 2 port

I have USB 2 ports on the PC I am testing this with.(Later the idea is to
use it on a laptop which will have USB 1.) What is wkpup2x? Is that the
same as wkpup202? I tried putting the pup215CE files on the stick but the
result was the same.

> What menu options (e.g. acpi on? Off?) are you choosing?

in the BIOS ACPI and S1 are enabled but USB(S3) not.

> Also, copy your usb stick's boot configuration file, linld.cfg

I can't find this file anywhere. Where do I look?

> Also, filename case matters. Post here a directory listing of the stick,
like from a Windows command-line window.

fdisk says that the partition on the stick is FAT16 and the filenames are
only one case surely. Should it be VFAT? The listing is (pup215CE):

boot.cat
boot.msg
initrd.gz
isolinux.bin
isolinux.cfg
pup_215.sfs
usbflash
vmlinuz
zdrv_215.sfs

(the file usbflash was created with 'touch USBFLASH' but they are all one case)

If you can do this then I am sure I can too, eventually. Whether it will
transfer to the old laptop I don't know but when it works on this PC
I'l try it.

whittycat