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gyro · Posted: Sat 21 Jul 2018, 06:11 Post subject:

This release returns to a multiple download and extraction mechanism, but it now supports mbr/bios/legacy boots.

Windows method:

1. Download files:
The main thing, http://www.fishprogs.software/puppy/zipboot/pupboot.zip.
[optional] If you want the stick to support mbr boots http://www.fishprogs.software/puppy/zipboot/grubinst-win-bin.zip
A suitable Puppy zip http://www.fishprogs.software/puppy/zipboot/upupbb-18.05+8.zip.

2. Format usb stick.
Insert the usb stick.
In windows explorer right click of the drive and select "Format...".
Ensure that the "File system" field contains "FAT32", and that the "Volume label" field contains "PUPBOOT" (without the quotes), then click "Start" button.

3. Populate empty usb stick.
Open windows explorer in the folder containg the downloaded zip files.
Right click on the "pupboot.zip" file and select "Extract All...", and in the ensuing dialog select the empty root folder of the usb stick.
Right click on the Puppy distribution file, in this case "upupbb-18.05+8.zip", and select "Extract All...", and in the ensuing dialog select the "puppy" folder on the usb stick.

4. [optional] Enable mbr boots.
Extract grubinst-win-bin.zip to some temporary folder, (or you may be able to just double click on it).
Run "grubinst_gui.exe" as per instructions in the "readme.txt".

5. Restart and boot the usb stick.

Puppy method:

1. Download files.
The main thing, http://www.fishprogs.software/puppy/zipboot/pupboot.zip.
[optional] If you want the disk to support mbr boots http://www.fishprogs.software/puppy/zipboot/grubinst-lin-bin.zip
A suitable Puppy zip http://www.fishprogs.software/puppy/zipboot/upupbb-18.05+8.zip.

2. Use gparted to format the disk as all fat32, or with 1<->4 GiB fat32 partition and rest as Linux partition.
The fat32 partition should have a label of "PUPBOOT".

3. Mount first partition of the disk.
Click on "pupboot.zip" to open in XArchive, click on "Select All", click on "Extract", select the disk mount point.
Similarly extract "upupbb-18.05+8.zip" into "<disk mount point>/puppy".

4 [optional] Extract "grubinst-lin-bin.zip" to some temporary directory.
Execute "grubinst-usb.sh".

5. Reboot to the usb stick.

Notes:
The files in /puppy on the first partition could be replaced with a different version of Puppy, at some later time.
Of course if there's no zip release of the required Puppy, extract vmlinuz, initrd.gz, and all sfs files from the appropriate iso, into the /puppy directory on the first partition.

So right now, from just a windows machine, you can bootstrap to any Puppy by first installing upupbb-18.05+8 using the Windows method above,
and then using one of the many Puppy based install mechanisms to install the required Puppy.

gyro

musher0 · Posted: Sat 21 Jul 2018, 11:32 Post subject:

Hello gyro.

As I said earlier, we should try distributing Puppy by telepathy, through
mind connections. Wink

No cost at all for hardware or support media, just
maybe a bit of sweat. Smile

BFN.

Burn_IT · Joined: 12 Aug 2006 Posts: 3699 Location: Tamworth UK

Hold a Seance!!

musher0 · Posted: Sat 21 Jul 2018, 20:23 Post subject:

Yep. Very simple.

We all hold hands and concentrate on the BionicPup, e.g., McNoobish Wink

or other newbies wish to receive. Smile

(ROFL)

hamoudoudou · Joined: 24 Jul 2014 Posts: 1467 Location: rabat

Thanks gyro grub.exe added to my tools
Perhaps they are now more than 1.00.000 topics 'how-to install Puppy' and some videos, perhaps 500.
Don't worry people will still ask how to install puppy.. But when i see tutos from VIPs still teaching unetbootin, grub2, or using an image instead of ISO, i desesperate...
As soon as a Pupppy is installed, they try to invent their own way..
Puppy linux is more than 10 years old.. some devs coming form Linux imagine than Puppy boys are so idiot that they never thought about installing Puppy from Windows.. Slacko.533.exe, Lucid511.exe...
When you come to Puppy, the first thing is to read Puppy Tutos..

tlchost

gyro · Posted: Sat 04 Aug 2018, 14:44 Post subject:

My mistake, I've just edited my last post, http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=999557#999557, to indicate that the label of the fat32 partition should be "PUPBOOT", not "USBPUPPY".
This "PUPBOOT" label is used in both the "grub.cfg" and the "menu.lst" files contained in "pupboot.zip"

gyro

gyro · Posted: Sat 04 Aug 2018, 15:07 Post subject:

Given the size of a Puppy release file, I don't think many Puppy producers will be keen to upload a version more than once.
So whatever container file is used for Puppy, it needs to be easily useable on all platforms.
That's why I think it's unlikely that we will ever see many, if any, Puppies released as an installable windows '.exe' file.

gyro

ally · Joined: 19 May 2012 Posts: 1983 Location: lincoln, uk

http://archive.org/download/Puppy_Linux_Windows_Installer

Smile

rcrsn51 · Posted: Sat 04 Aug 2018, 16:22 Post subject:

gyro · Posted: Sat 04 Aug 2018, 18:16 Post subject:

@ally,
Oops, my statement was a little brash, and apparently, wrong.
But, (of course there has to be a "but"),
a solution that requires a separate release file for each platform, is not preferrable to a solution that requires just a single release file,
i.e. a zip file or an iso file.

gyro

gyro · Posted: Sat 04 Aug 2018, 18:44 Post subject:

@rcrsn51,
Why not stick with an iso file?

My assumption is that a windows user who wants to try Puppy Linux, is more and more likely to have a uefi machine with no optical drive, and want to boot Puppy from a usb device.
To do this, all they need is something that contains all the required files, ready to be copied to an empty usb stick.
No need for an image, or an mbr installer program, just a container with the required files, that can be easily extracted onto an empty usb stick, e.g. a zip file.
If it's just a container, why use a complicated one like an iso, if a simple one like a zip will do?

Also the zip solution I am suggesting contains a direct example of a simple frugal install.
Whereas the "boot" stuff in the iso is irrevelant to a simple frugal install.

gyro

Burn_IT · Joined: 12 Aug 2006 Posts: 3699 Location: Tamworth UK

An ISO file is just like a zip file. It just uses a slightly different method of storing the files.
Most "zip" programs will unpack an ISO, even if the OS will not mount it directly - which most will nowadays.

gyro · Posted: Mon 06 Aug 2018, 10:13 Post subject:

Burn_IT · Joined: 12 Aug 2006 Posts: 3699 Location: Tamworth UK

I did not say that it was anything to do with Linux or Windows or any OS.
I said it was LIKE a zip file in that it was a single file container for other files.
I deliberately left out the sometimes added bootable options. Not all ISO files have those options - in fact I suspect more don't than do.
The file format was designed originally for use on CD/DVD, but doesn't necessarily reside there.