how to install puppy in a pc with 64 mb of ram?

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tux_friend · #1 Post by **tux_friend** » Sun 03 Sep 2006, 15:52

i have a pc with 64 mb of ram.
how to install puppy in this pc?
if not is possible,...i install in this machine damn small linux or delilinux.

Ian · #2 Post by **Ian** » Sun 03 Sep 2006, 17:36

If you read the "How to Puppy" & "Index of resources for Beginners Help forum" at the start of this section you will find most of what you need to know.

Trobin · #3 Post by **Trobin** » Sun 03 Sep 2006, 18:20

I run puppy on a 64 meg PC.

You will need a swap partition, and you should create it before booting up Puppy. It wouldn't run on my system even as a livecd without it. Mine is about 132 MB, but it's your choice as to the size. I believe the standard rcommendation is at least twice the size of ram.

I have three partition on the drive. One Dos, one ext2, puppy, and one swap.

Once the swap partition is created, puppy will find it when booting as a livecd.

From that point you have to decide whther you want to run it off the cd, or as a type 1 (poor man's) or type 2 HD install.

If you go for a livecd, or poor man's install, I don't believe you need to create more than the swap partition. Both will use a file saved on the HD to store your setings/files in.

You'll need n ext2 ext3 partition if you want to go for a type 2 install.

start->setup->Universal installer if your using the 2.x series.

start->setup->Install Puppy Hard drive if you have an earlier Puppy.

I don't know if the Puppy 2.x series remembers the swap partition location, when booted from HD as a type 2 install.

You could go to /etc/rc.d and look at the rc.local file. It should have a line that say: "swapon /dev/hdx" x being the identifying number for your swap partition. If it doesn't, well this is what I do:

open a console window
Type: mkswap /dev/hdax
Type: swapon /dev/hdax
close the window

Open a text editor and load /etc/rc.d/rc.local
add swapon /dev/hdax to the file and resave.

I'm using1.0.6 so the above may not be accurate fr tthe 2.x series.

#4 Post by **Flash** » Sun 03 Sep 2006, 19:12

Trobin you left out the most important piece. How did you create a swap partition if you couldn't boot the Puppy CD?

tux_friend · #5 Post by **tux_friend** » Sun 03 Sep 2006, 21:44

you create the swap partition with a damn small linux livecd...
open cfdisk,create partitions and type mkswap /dev/hdax
successively,boot puppy livecd

Trobin · #6 Post by **Trobin** » Sun 03 Sep 2006, 23:01

My first time, I used FDISK on a win98 rescue disk.

Feather linux works good.

Nevre could get DSL to do the job.

HansKooiman · #7 Post by **HansKooiman** » Sun 03 Sep 2006, 23:59

Flash wrote:Trobin you left out the most important piece. How did you create a swap partition if you couldn't boot the Puppy CD?

Why not download Puppy4Windows98? That's an option if you have windows 98.

I use it, it's my first Linux, and I like it. My old laptop has AMD-K6-2 300Mhz, 64mb ram, 3gb ide, 40gb usb-ide. It's my only computer, due to choices about money. I can check my mail, browse internet, and that's about it. I avoid big packages, memory-swapping may work, but I don't want to wait forever. My puppyfile is only 60mb and my swapfile 128mb. Small is beautiful.

Trobin · #8 Post by **Trobin** » Mon 04 Sep 2006, 01:35

HansKooiman wrote:
Flash wrote:Trobin you left out the most important piece. How did you create a swap partition if you couldn't boot the Puppy CD?
Why not download Puppy4Windows98? That's an option if you have windows 98.

I tried it, never could get it too work right.

raffy · #9 Post by **raffy** » Mon 04 Sep 2006, 05:37

The live CD of Puppy 2+ will run in 32 MB RAM so I see no problem using Gparted in Puppy to make a swap partition. And in Puppy 2.02, you can carve a partition out of NTFS - just make sure you defragment within Windows XP and shut down normally before booting Puppy 2.02.

For more reading about Puppy and DSL, see http://puppylinux.org/fiesta/node/1

marksouth2000 · #10 Post by **marksouth2000** » Mon 04 Sep 2006, 06:53

A simple approach to prepartitioning the hard disk is to use a tomsrtbt floppy and just use the gnu fdisk that's on there. Remember to format the swap partition as type 1 with

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mkswap -v1

before rebooting.

That way when you boot the Puppy liveCD it will use the swap, and you will be spared some agonising waiting.

Overall, this is quicker than waiting for Puppy to boot without any swap on a RAM-challenged machine.

HansKooiman · #11 Post by **HansKooiman** » Tue 05 Sep 2006, 20:37

All you need to do is put six files in c:\puppy (and one in c:\) and reboot. Strange it doesn't work. You've found the right forum. Good luck with your swapfile. Hans

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jason.b.c · #12 Post by **jason.b.c** » Tue 05 Sep 2006, 21:01

Flash wrote:Trobin you left out the most important piece. How did you create a swap partition if you couldn't boot the Puppy CD?

Thats easy, Download Visopsys...It can at least reformatte and partition your hard drive.. Thats about all it does though...

http://www.visopsys.org/

RPM · #13 Post by **RPM** » Wed 06 Sep 2006, 01:15

You could just try and run with 64M RAM. I have two PC's that I can boot from Live-CD from and one of them even shares video memory. I just have to re-boot and use a pry bar to get the CD back out. Both computers have different OS's on them with no puppy ver installed, just used Live-CD puppy ver 2.02.

Added to this post so others wont assume it's impossible to run Live-CD puppy 2.02 with 64M RAM because with some PC's it's possible.

Bob

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how to install puppy in a pc with 64 mb of ram?

how to install puppy in a pc with 64 mb of ram?

you create the swap partition with a damn small linux livecd

Live CD with 32 MB RAM

or you could...