edoc wrote:budden wrote:The step-by-step here works pretty much as advertised.
Rambling a bit ... again it works.
The instructions say 'at least 500M' for hda2. What they don't say is THIS IS THE PLACE TO USE THE WHOLE DRIVE! So I had Puppy nicely running in a fifth of the entire drive and the rest was not partitioned and not usable. So when I discovered that 1.0.5 was out (one release newer than what I'd installed), started over.
This time, having a successful install in the log, I skipped all the hda1 part since didn't intend any changes there. Echo some other comments, would be nice to dispense with MS-DOS/DR-DOS entirely, but that's somewhat of a nit since I have a copy.
fdisk: blew away hda2 and restored it ... this time with the whole drive (less hda1). NOW I have some serious working space.
Reinstallation worked fine, per instructions.
Grub does need to be reinstalled since it's config files, by default, live in /boot. Which I'd blown away and re-established. Again, per instructions.
Recommendations, to close this ramble: they pertain to the install script itself not the instructions (I know enough to pop the CD ... after all, I want the ethernet back and I can have one or the other (single PCMCIA slot), but not both). Y'oughtta be able to boot off the puppy CD and push the Setup-->Install HD menu button and be off. That script should make sure you're wholly on CD+RAM (with no hda mounted), should fork into fdisk to do surgery (with recommendations), ... There are several very good scripts in Puppy so this should be within scope.
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1.0.5 looks nice. I like JWM -- it's a decent improvement. Still haven't found a good solution to the 1024x640 oddball screen size. The root of the problem is in xvesa with side effects shown up in JWM that I haven't found a workaround for yet (like relocating the task bar).