XP-installer for Puppy 1.0.7 / 1.0.8r1

[J_Rey]

You should include some warnings about editing boot.ini and defrag problems to the next version. I found this news article about problems someone had when editing boot.ini when the XP installer didn't work.
Also, I haven't looked around for the answer, but does this installer also work with other NT-based versions (Windows NT 4+, 2000, 2003 server)?

[MU]

I should add an option to remove the Puppy-entry automatically from c:\boot.ini.

Other NTs: I think someone tried it with Win 2k or ME.
Try at own risk, Do backup.

Mark

[papakanush]

Just to let you know that I tried out the XP installer for version 1.07, tried out a few things (mostly only those a newbie like me would understand) and it all worked great. First I had copied my pup001 file to a safe location in widows first, downloaded a new, fresh pup001 onto the c-drive. After I found that it worked, I copied the pup001 file that had all my configurations, files, etc. back to the c-drive, re-booted into puppy (by the way, the grub boot loader worked fine too) and everything came up just like I like. Now I have a dual boot system with XP and Puppy on the same NTFS partition without having to use a startup disk.

Puppy really is the best !!

P.S. I have this on my work laptop IBM R40. All my work stuff has to be on XP, and I can do all my personal work on Puppy.

[maltje]

I used puppy linux installer on my laptop but after a while I got the next error
PCI:Using configuration type 1 and all is hanging!!!!

[MU]

maltje, more details please.

1.) What Puppy-version did you install?
2.) When do you get the error?

3.) Can you choose between Windows and Puppy, when the computer starts?
4.) Do you get the error, when you choose Puppy, or also when you choose Windows?

5.) Did you install the Patch?

Mark

[maltje]

after rebooting I can choose between XP or puppy
I don't know wich version I just started puupy linux installer.

found existing C:\Program Files\Puppy-Linux Installer for Windows XP\resource\image-patched-1.0.7.gz
using C:\Program Files\Puppy-Linux Installer for Windows XP\resource\image-patched-1.0.7.gz

done, patch was copied




I also tried to start from cd but then I have an error telling me that a file is missing
usr_cram.fs

[MU]

the installer uses a grub-bootmenu especially made for Windows.
But it does not work with every situation.

Instead of "1.0.7", you also can try "1.0.8r1" , but I fear that will give the same error.

I just saw your other thread:
http://www.murga.org/~puppy/viewtopic.php?t=8484

You can install Puppy2 to the harddisk, it will install it's own version of grub.
Reports in the Forum say, that the version in Puppy2 is more reliable.

Puppy2 has a program "gparted", that can format your second partition for Linux.
But you won't even need to do that, it also should support a second type of installation, that just copies the files from the CD to the harddisk (which is the better solution for different reasons).

Puppy2 also might work in your USB-CDrom, as the USB-things are completely new.

I would suggest, to try Puppy 2 in your situation
Mark

[maltje]

The second problem(booting from cd) is with puppy 2 (seamonkey)!!!!

[MU]

yes.
Also see here:
http://dotpups.de/puppy-releases/2.00/ISO/
Mark

[MU]

Then it gets difficult.
You could try these instructions:
http://puppylinux.org/wikka/InstallingPuppyOnNTFS

or better this newer one:
http://ph-islands.net/pupinstall/winxp.php

Mark

[maltje]

I burnt another cd just to try
put in the laptop and sqtarted it.
A whole lot a wors on my screen,so thats ok
after a while hanging again on
ACPI:PCI root bridge [PCIo](0000:00)

[MU]

I think Puppy1 uses ACPI by default, Puppy 2 does not.
So if you try puppy1, try the help (F1?) at boot, I think you can pass the command "acpi=off".
Mark

[maltje]

puppy 1,is the oldest?

[maltje]

with F1 nothing happends.
To many problems to go on with I guess.
Thnx for the help,if you think at something else you can always let me know.

[Zook]

Soo umm... i have this installed right now... running fine... is there anyway to make it so it boots the -LATEST- version of Puppy instead of just Puppy 1.0.7

(No cd's to just burn it)

And i need the answer in less then 24 Hours :X

-Zook

[MU]

no, there only is a untested version for Puppy 109 CE: http://dotpups.de/puppy-releases/1.0.9- ... WindowsXP/

I have not adapted it to Puppy2 yet.

Search the forums for "frugal" to find infos how to install Puppy2 without a CD.
Mark

[raffy]

And i need the answer in less then 24 Hours :X

- searching here will give you the answer in less than 24 seconds.

or experiment replacing the files with those from version 2.01r2.

For 2.02, try this one: http://www.murga.org/~puppy/viewtopic.php?t=9699

2.02 writes to NTFS so there is perhaps no point installing to HD if you have a CD or DVD drive, even USB flash drive.

Just bringing the good news.

[Mets]

Hey, not sure if this is still being supported anymore, I thought I'd ask anyway. I downloaded the program and it worked fine - it decompressed Puppy, installed Grub, etc. However, after I rebooted, when I selected booting Puppy at the boot menu, Grub gave me an "Error 17 - cannot mount" when I tried to get it to run. Any ideas on how to fix this?

[MU]

If the patched image.gz does not fix it, I have no idea.

I currently have a XP-System on an old computer, where it does not work either.
I finally installed Mandriva-Linux in addition, just to get a working version of Grub.

To this grub, I added puppy manually, works fine now.
I chose during installation, to use a small 100 MB-partition for the folder "/boot" (where Grub stores the configurationfiles), like this I even keep Grub, if I delete the rest of Mandriva-Linux.

Mark

[richard.a]

Other NTs: I think someone tried it with Win 2k or ME.
Try at own risk, Do backup.

Mark

Mark, WindowsMe is not an NT. It is a Win98 derivative (version 3 of Win98 actually) which pretends to be like 2000, with no obvious DOS it sits upon (although there is an underlying DOS concealed from those who don't know where to look), and a menu construction and theme that is Win2000-like.

Win2000 is NT 5.0 and XP is NT 5.1 afaik - my forgettory is better than my memory

IMHO it is a pig of an OS although I have two machines with native Me on them, which seem to work quite well after attacking them with sledgehammers and pneumatic drills

Networking can present problems because it appears (from MS trained engineers I know) that the MS philosophy at the time was "this is a machine for home use, so we'll provide networking but don't really expect anyone to use it" lol.

From what I've been told it appears that Me was designed as the "home version" of 2000, like the "home version" of XP has a bunch of (different) dumb (imho) features crippled

Thought I'd clarify, hope you didn't mind.


BTW have you seen the spoof flash promo for "WindowsRG" ?
Supposedly that means "Windows Really Good".
It's an swf made by a bunch of guys. I saw it the other day and then lost the url, so I saved a copy out of my cache here



Richard downunder in Oz