Puppy - Pen Drive and FAT 16/32 File System

[waynev]

OK allowing for an accumulation of manufacturing errors, perhaps a 50mb puppy will not work on the 64mb pen drive. However, after wiping the drive with the latest Gparted that comes with Parted Magic and formatting FAT-16 and adding the boot flag. It seems the Fat-16 partition is ~56mb after installing MeanPup the file system size is ~54mb. Of course there is no save-file.

[SO] rjb you win To put to bed the possibility that the problem is with the pen drive size, I will soon become the proud owner of a 1-gig pen drive.

It's snowing here and it may well be awhile before I venture out. I'll post when the 1-gig shows its stuff

Cheers

[rjbrewer]

Waynev:

Just because I don't believe it's possible, doesn't mean you should
quit trying. I'm usually wrong more often than right.

There are a few pups even smaller than 50mb. Rather impractical
and old, but might be fun to play around with.

EDIT

Okay;

I was wrong big time.
I just used the universal-installer to install "fat-free" 301 to a flash
with fat16 partition and boot flag set.
This time when it said finshed and ejected the cd, I removed cd,
rebooted with wake-pup2 boot floppy
and it worked fine.
Fat-free 301 is only using 62.41 mb. No pup-save file needed.

rjb

[racepres]

And Fat Free is big time cool as well as fun especially in the "Whtie Fang" carnation. But... some lappy keyboards [like one compaq that I have] don't work properly... Oh well My first wife wasn't perfect either!!! RP

[waynev]

Thanks for the follow up testing, and I'm pleased that at least you can boot. I'm beginning to believe, after chasing the solution for over two weeks, there is no solution for me. Like the good Bar-B-Q folks say "The secret is in the sauce." Well, I may try different ingredients later, but right now I feel whipped.