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Puffin
Joined: 17 Dec 2009 Posts: 2
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Posted: Thu 17 Dec 2009, 14:07 Post_subject:
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Hello there
I'm planning to install Puppy 431 on my old computer / harddisk, which I've completely emptied for this purpose. So now there's not a single partition on it.
What partitions would you recommend to create before the installation, with what file systems, and what sizes?
(RAM is 512)
Thank you very much!
Puffin
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Jim1911
Joined: 19 May 2008 Posts: 2353 Location: Texas, USA
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Posted: Thu 17 Dec 2009, 15:24 Post_subject:
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Welcome to puppy.
See http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=29653 for Catdude's excellent tutorial on how to set up your partitions and do the installation.
Since it is an older computer, you may need to use a version with an earlier kernel, see http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/puppylinux/puppy-4.3.1/special-puppies/ if you need one.
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disciple
Joined: 20 May 2006 Posts: 6197 Location: Auckland, New Zealand
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Posted: Fri 18 Dec 2009, 02:06 Post_subject:
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| Quote: | | Since it is an older computer, you may need to use a version with an earlier kernel |
Maybe, but I don't think that is too likely... with 512MB ram it isn't exactly ancient.
Catdude's tutorial is for a full install, but you may want to do a "frugal" install, which is kind of like running from CD - the files on the CD are copied to the hard drive, and all your settings and installed programs are kept in another file. A frugal install makes it very easy to back up your stuff (you just copy one file) and to upgrade to a newer version of puppy.
It depends what extra programs you will install and run, but I'd probably only recommend a swap partition twice the size of your ram if you have 256MB ram or less - I think most people are very unlikely to ever need more than 512MB swap.
Personally if I was going to install Puppy on a computer as the only operating system I would make a 512MB swap partition (unless I had a special reason for a bigger one), and fill the rest of the hard drive with an ext3 partition (or possible something else, but not vfat, ntfs or ext2), and I would do a frugal install.
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