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PupWin98.zip with Puppy 1.0.4 now available
Posted: Wed 27 Jul 2005, 17:35
by JaDy
PupWin98.zip with Puppy 1.0.4 is now available here:
http://www.freeveda.org/linux/puppy/
Puppy Linux for Win98 works with Windows 98 with no need for floppy disk and no need for cd-rom drive.
This is Puppy Linux version 1.0.4 with Mozilla, re-packaged as a zip archive file with a few pieces added to run from your Windows 98 desktop. You'll need an un-zip program like ALZip or WinZip to handle the zip file.
Posted: Wed 27 Jul 2005, 19:13
by cygnus
Thanks! Downloading it now.
BTW - I see you're from SE PA. I'm originally from NE PA. Pretty cool.
Posted: Fri 29 Jul 2005, 16:32
by cygnus
Just installed it on my desktop. I have to say this is one of the coolest things. It's by far the easiest, safest, least intrusive way to get Linux on a hard drive. It's fast, easy, and simple for newbies or those who don't necessarily want to fool around with bootloaders or partitioning and don't want to boot from a CD or floppy all the time.
More people should know about this. I even thought of a name for it: WinPuppy. Sort of goes along with current naming trends (HardPuppy, FlashPuppy, etc.).
Posted: Sat 30 Jul 2005, 04:51
by JaDy
Thanks for the feedback, cygnus. I've been wondering if anyone uses it. Well, I use it daily. Yes, I eat my own dogfood.
Anyway, you got the idea exactly: fast, easy, safe. I hasten to add that I think Barry got it right by focusing on the CD and FLASH approach; and the CDW experiment is very promising (PortaPuppy?).
I don't know about the name, WinPuppy. Too many of us feel uneasy about anything Windows. You got the Puppy spirit right, though. It needs a puppy-ish name. This needs meditation. Um, LazyPuppy?
CoolPuppy? ArcPuppy?
Posted: Mon 01 Aug 2005, 16:19
by cygnus
How about EasyPuppy?
Posted: Mon 01 Aug 2005, 22:52
by JohnMurga
FAT32-Puppy ?
Actually ... I guess that isn't really that catchy.
Cheers
JohnM
Posted: Tue 02 Aug 2005, 00:11
by Lobster
Puplet Winner
Puplet Winalot (Winalot is a dog food)
Puplet Whinper
WinWin Puppy
Puppy ExoDOS
Puppy Wins
Puppy In a Box
just some ideas
Posted: Tue 02 Aug 2005, 17:14
by JaDy
I'm thinking these:
Arc Puppy
Cold Puppy
Cool Puppy
Easy Puppy
First Puppy
Icon Puppy
Lazy Puppy
Winks Puppy
WinExit Puppy
Where's a list of all the existing variations of Puppy?
Here be some:
BareBones Puppy
Chubby Puppy
Hard Puppy
Flash Puppy
Live-CD Puppy
NaNoWriMo Puppy
Opera Puppy
Sourcer Puppy
Zip Puppy
Apologies to anyone I missed.
Looks like the makings for a Wiki page.
Posted: Tue 20 Sep 2005, 15:11
by JaDy
The next version of PupWin98 (using Puppy105) will likely use grub.exe instead of tiny.exe thanks to help from BruceB and WiZard. You can modify the current PupWin98.zip installation to use grub.
Replace the use of tiny with grub in PUPPY\PUPLINUX.BAT thus (2 lines):
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@rem PUPPY\tiny PUPPY/VMLINUZ PUPPY/IMAGE.GZ root=/dev/ram0 PHOME=hda1 PFILE=pup001-none-262144
PUPPY\GRUB.EXE --config-file=(hd0,0)/Puppy/menu.lst
Build PUPPY\MENU.LST thus (7 lines):
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timeout 0
default 0
title Puppy RAM
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
kernel /puppy/vmlinuz root=/dev/ram noapic PFILE=pup001-none-262144 PHOME=hda1
initrd /puppy/image.gz
Put grub.exe into the PUPPY folder. You can get it here:
http://www.freeveda.org/linux/puppy/GRUB.EXE
Change the advanced settings of the Puppy Windows shortcut so that the autoexec.bat is empty and the config.sys contains:
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DOS=HIGH,UMB
Device=C:\WINDOWS\Himem.Sys
Posted: Wed 05 Apr 2006, 17:21
by randal
When I tried to open it, it said it couldn't create or find /usr dir.
And the instructions gave a second file to save:
Verify integrity with MD5:
right-click here and select Save Target As ...
But there are two different files presented here: md5.zip and PupWin98.md5 and no instructions on what to do with this later.
Duh ...
Posted: Wed 05 Apr 2006, 17:35
by MU
md5.zip contains md5sum.exe
extract it with winzip.
Then you can check the zip:
type in the dosbox
cd c:\WhereverYouExtractedTo
md5sum pupwin98.zip
then you should be shown the same as in pupwin98.md5 (that is a textfile you can open with notepad).
Mark
Posted: Wed 05 Apr 2006, 17:55
by randal
I extracted the md5.zip file.
Still won't work. Though what I wrote earlier was incorrect. It has the /usr dir but can't create or find the usr_cram.fs file. Says Puppy should load, but not be able to save, but it doesn't even load.
Posted: Sat 06 May 2006, 05:11
by cegil
I downloaded Puppy Linux for Windows 98 and tried it (unsuccessfully) on
my windows ME, so now, I transferred it over to my old windows 95 PC where I have the Puppy Linux Live CD and a couple other distros that I am
trying to learn to use.
1) The documentation from the download site is vague as to whether it will work on windows 95, so that is my question, huh?
2) The reason for trying to use it, is that I have the winmodem problem and am unable to connect. So my question also, is if this version will work on windows 95, will it default to the winmodem or will I still have to opt for getting an external modem, huh?
Posted: Sat 20 May 2006, 02:42
by Zook
Im just wondering... could i replace the files with other distros like slax and have this work? (Since my floppy is basically dead and computer doesnt boot from CD/USB) But yeah what i would like to do is edit the puppy.bat file to include a third option... so its like "Boot into puppy, Slax, or Windows". Would someone please help me out with this :X
-Zook