How to Install Wary Puppy 5.5 as only OS on old WindowsXP?
Posted: Mon 15 Jan 2018, 00:56
Please, forgive me, I'm super new, never used Linux before yesterday. But, I have an old Dell Inspiron 1000 running Windows XP. My nephew and I want to re-image it with Wary Puppy 5.5. We've already created a bootable CD-ROM (of Wary Puppy 5.5) with the downloadable ISO at puppylinux.org. We've already successfully booted the old Dell w/ the Wary Puppy 5.5 CD via the BIOS of the old Dell. What we want to do next is uninstall Windows XP and install just Wary Puppy 5.5 as the only OS on the old laptop. But, no idea how to do that. And, couldn't find directions for doing this for Wary Puppy 5.5. (Note, we want to get rid of Windows XP totally and just have the Wary Puppy as the OS, not run Wary Puppy installed in Windows and if possible not boot from Wary Puppy CD we made. Is this possible?)
Some background info: There's nothing on the old PC's hard drive that we need to keep. I already made a bootable CD of Windows XP, just in case. (I don't know where I put the og disc for it.) The old Dell Inspiron 1000 has a 30G HDD. And, we've already upgraded the RAM to 1.25G (from its original 256MB). The laptop was purchased in 2002 or 2001. (It's older than my nephew, lol!) We already booted from a CD the Wary Puppy 5.5 and got on the internet and surfed around w/ SeaMonkey browser. Everything seemed to work w/ the Warry Puppy 5.5 (everything we need anyway). The end goal is have only the Warry Puppy 5.5 as the OS and then give the old laptop to my nephew. We're doing this project together.
Also, note, I don't think this old brick of a laptop will run anything for newer PCs; I think it has to be the Wary Puppy version of Puppy Linux.
Ok, sorry for the total newbie question, but totally stuck. Thank you in advance!
Some background info: There's nothing on the old PC's hard drive that we need to keep. I already made a bootable CD of Windows XP, just in case. (I don't know where I put the og disc for it.) The old Dell Inspiron 1000 has a 30G HDD. And, we've already upgraded the RAM to 1.25G (from its original 256MB). The laptop was purchased in 2002 or 2001. (It's older than my nephew, lol!) We already booted from a CD the Wary Puppy 5.5 and got on the internet and surfed around w/ SeaMonkey browser. Everything seemed to work w/ the Warry Puppy 5.5 (everything we need anyway). The end goal is have only the Warry Puppy 5.5 as the OS and then give the old laptop to my nephew. We're doing this project together.
Also, note, I don't think this old brick of a laptop will run anything for newer PCs; I think it has to be the Wary Puppy version of Puppy Linux.
Ok, sorry for the total newbie question, but totally stuck. Thank you in advance!