How to install Lucid Puppy 5.2.5 on VMware Player using a frugal install
1) Create a new machine in VMware Player. Point to the Puppy iso as the installer disc image. Use at least 512MB of RAM.
Do not Power on the virtual machine until you have completed the next step. (uncheck Power on)
2) The virtual hard drive must be ide and not SCSI so Remove the original drive, delete the .vmdk file and create a new ide hard drive (at least 2GB in size)
3) Play the virtual machine and let it boot Puppy. You can set timezone and resolution now if you like.
4) Launch the GParted partition manager in Puppy (it's in the System menu)
5) Create a Partition Table, a new Partition and format the virtual drive as fat32.
6) Mount the CD (sr0) and the hard drive (sda1) in Puppy and copy the 2 linux boot files from the CD to /mnt/sda1 (vmlinuz, initrd.gz)
7) Run Grub4DOS so you can boot without the Puppy iso.
8) Reboot and SAVE TO FILE. Make it ext3 and 1.2GB. COPY lupu_525.sfs to the disk.
9) Use Quickpet Sfs Get to download the GNU Compiler lupu_devx_525.sfs (click the bar below the tabs). Reboot
10) Use Quickpet Sfs Get to download the linux kernel source (kernel_src_L4). Reboot
11) Create some folders that VMware Tools will need by running this command in a console:
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mkdir -p /etc/rc.d/rc{0,1,2,3,4,5,6}.d13) Mount the CD (sr0) and extract VMwareTools from the CD to /root (click on it in ROX and set destination to /root)
14) Run the perl install script to install the VMware Tools (accept all defaults):
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/root/vmware-tools-distrib/vmware-install.pl/usr/lib/vmware-tools/bin32/vmware-user-suid-wrapper
to: /root/Startup
16) Delete the VMware Tool folder in /root
17) Reboot and enjoy!
Other Notes:
- VMware Shared Folders appear at /mnt/hgfs/{shared folder name}
- You can run BootManager and remove the kernel src and devx SFS files so they don't load at bootup (may speed bootup)
- To eliminate the filesystem check at each bootup edit /mnt/home/menu.lst and remove "pfix=fsck" from the kernel line. (will speed bootup)
- If you want to move the desktop icons (lock, zip, trash) you have to disable the script that tries to move them to the upper right corner. Rename /usr/sbin/fixPuppyPin to fixPuppyPin.BAK
- Even though VMware will allow you to resize the Puppy VMware window, I like it to start off at 1024x768. You can change this in Setup > Hardware > Xorg Video Wizard. This will set the initial resolution Puppy boots with.
emil