Questions re GRUB; using, (un)installing Puppy

[Xinfe]

Hello evrybody !

I just want some infos about Puppy :
-when I use the XP installer (to install Puppy), GRUB is installed. But I already have XP and Ubuntu. Will GRUB detect all ?
-how do I uninstall Puppy from my HDD

Optionnal :
-What is the X server ? I don't think that's KDE or Gnome
-How to force the refresh to 85Hz if it isn't available (as for Ubuntu)

Thanks !!!

[MU]

If you have ubuntu, don't use the xp-installer (btw. there is no version for 107 yet...).

This should work:

Download the iso to your home-folder in Ubuntu.
Then type in a console:
mkdir ~/puppy-iso
mount -o loop ~/puppy-1.0.7-mozilla.iso ~/puppy-iso

Make a folder /boot/puppy107/ in Ubuntu.

Copy
~/puppy-iso/image.gz and vmlinuz to /boot/puppy107/ from ubuntu.
Copy
~/puppy-iso/usr_cram.fs to / from ubuntu.

Unmount the iso:
umount ~/puppy-iso

Edit your menu.lst from Ubuntu (somewhere in /boot).

Add such an entry (I assume ubuntu is on hda5, which should be (hd0,4) in Grub):

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title Puppy Linux1.0.7
        rootnoverify (hd0,4)
        kernel (hd0,4)/boot/puppy107/vmlinuz root=/dev/ram0 PFILE=pup001-none
        initrd (hd0,4)/boot/puppy107/image.gz

Now you should have a puppy-entry in your Ubuntu-Grub, when you boot your computer.

To uninstall, remove these files (plus /pup001 , that will be created when you start puppy the first time), and remove the entry from Grub.

Puppy has several Desktops, the Default is jwm plus the ROX-Desktop-Icons.
http://joewing.net/programs/jwm/index.shtml
http://rox.sourceforge.net/

You also can install KDE:
http://dotpups.de/puppy-releases/1.0.7/ ... d-more.htm

The refreshrate might be set automatically correct.
Try that first, if it fails, we can give you more detailed tips.

Mark

[Xinfe]

Wow,

Very fast, complete and impressive answer !

Thanks a lot, I will try that soon !

Bye !

[bugman]

Would this also be a way to install 1.07 from inside 1.06 without a CD burner? I've got two HDs, so I could maybe install from one to the other this way? Am I making any sense?

[MU]

Bugman, yes, if you have a working Grub.
I installed Puppy on a computer some days ago.
It has 3 Harddisks, all were used for XP.
I partitioned one from new (ext2), and tried to install Grub from a Puppy I booted from CD,but had no success.

So I installed Linux-Mandriva on that drive.
Mandriva created a working Grub.
You could use almost any Linux for that.

Then I proceeded as in the message above.
You also can use Puppy to extract the iso, the crux is just Grub

Mark

[bugman]

Yep, I've got grub--and I've got that bootloader too...



NOW I can finally download 1.07. Well, tomorrow morning, when I can hog 5 hours worth of dialup access...