1. No CD drive on my laptop.
2. Unetbootin doesn't DL Puppy (for whatever reason; I think the mirror is out of date)
3. I tried making a 'hybrid' per this post, but I get this error:
"kernel panic not syncing vfs unable to mount fs on unknown block (0, 12)"
4. In Cinnamon (current OS) I can easily DL an ISO (like Tails) and just right click and write it to a USB to make a bootable flash drive, but not with Puppy! I get some error like, "no boot" or something like that (can't remember now).
Will somebody for the love of God please help me to figure out how I can get this dang OS on a flash drive and run it?
You'd figure that this would be easy! Why isn't this OS built to boot from a flash drive? My old laptop doesn't even have a disc drive and I need a disc to install this dang thing? Seems counter-intuitive since it's built for old laptops!...
Thank you in advance.
How to install Puppy on a flash drive?
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Sailor Enceladus
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You can also download an iso manually (examples), then in UNetbootin select Diskimage near the bottom and look for it.juzeza wrote:2. Unetbootin doesn't DL Puppy (for whatever reason; I think the mirror is out of date)
I think the default in UNetbootin was Puppy 4.20, not sure if it was retro or regular?
http://iso.linuxquestions.org/download/290/2042/http/distro.ibiblio.org/puppy-4.2-k2.6.25.16-seamonkey.iso
http://iso.linuxquestions.org/download/290/2053/http/distro.ibiblio.org/puppy-4.2retro-k2.6.21.7-seamonkey.iso
Just download a Puppy version iso file.
You can find plenty of them on this forum.
The latest official Puppies are:
Tahrpup 6.0.5
Slacko 6.3.0
They each have a 32bit and 64bit version.
32bit will work on anything.
Get them from here:
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/index. ... order=DESC
Get the version of Unetbootin that will run in whatever operating system you can use to run it.
Unetbootin.
http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/
Follow the directions for using an iso file you have already downloaded.
http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/#other
Unnetbootin does want the USB flash drive formatted fat32, but they usually come that way.
You can find plenty of them on this forum.
The latest official Puppies are:
Tahrpup 6.0.5
Slacko 6.3.0
They each have a 32bit and 64bit version.
32bit will work on anything.
Get them from here:
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/index. ... order=DESC
Get the version of Unetbootin that will run in whatever operating system you can use to run it.
Unetbootin.
http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/
Follow the directions for using an iso file you have already downloaded.
http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/#other
Unnetbootin does want the USB flash drive formatted fat32, but they usually come that way.
The things they do not tell you, are usually the clue to solving the problem.
When I was a kid I wanted to be older.... This is not what I expected
YaPI(any iso installer)
When I was a kid I wanted to be older.... This is not what I expected
YaPI(any iso installer)
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Mike Walsh
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Hi, jujeza. And 'Welcome' to the forum.
Puppy will install to a flash drive using UNetbootin. It just takes a little bit more preparation work to make the magic happen, that's all.
It's partly due to the rather unusual file-system structure.....which is the very self-same thing that makes Puppy so suitable for older hardware.
Anyway; good things are worth working that little bit harder for! If you follow bigpup's link to the Sourceforge site, and the explanation about using the 'disk image' option, you'll not go far wrong. And BTW: really old laptops always used to have floppy drives; then they came with optical (CD/DVD) drives. It's only in recent years they've stopped fitting optical drives.....so your lappie can't be that old!
(Unless it's been removed by a previous owner/user, of course...)
Mike.
Puppy will install to a flash drive using UNetbootin. It just takes a little bit more preparation work to make the magic happen, that's all.
It's partly due to the rather unusual file-system structure.....which is the very self-same thing that makes Puppy so suitable for older hardware.
Anyway; good things are worth working that little bit harder for! If you follow bigpup's link to the Sourceforge site, and the explanation about using the 'disk image' option, you'll not go far wrong. And BTW: really old laptops always used to have floppy drives; then they came with optical (CD/DVD) drives. It's only in recent years they've stopped fitting optical drives.....so your lappie can't be that old!
(Unless it's been removed by a previous owner/user, of course...)
Mike.
