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Sky Aisling

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I am installing Puppy 4.3.1. to an internal hard drive on a Toshiba Satellite 2805-S401 with 256mg RAM and 20 gig hdd.

Currently, a MSOS (me) resides on the drive. I want the MSOS to be erased permanently.

When I follow the install instructions provided from Puppy's desktop screen, this message is offered in GParted when I go to format the HDD:

"Regarding 'ntfs' or 'vfat' of course do not change these to ext2 or ext3 if the partition has Windows or DOS installed on it!"

But... I want to erase Windows completely, forever. Shouldn't I choose ext2 or ext3 as the file system for Puppy?

Thank you for your timely reply.

PS Yes, I want to do a install to a hard drive. See discussion:
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=62493

rjbrewer · Joined: 22 Jan 2008 Posts: 4422 Location: merriam, kansas

If you're installing to the hard drive and want to boot it, you'll need
ext2 or ext3; {which has journalling and is a little more stable)

Delete the windows partition first.

A good install method for low ram computers:

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=201565&search_id=1358540782#201565

RetroTechGuy · Joined: 15 Dec 2009 Posts: 2628 Location: USA

shinobar · Joined: 28 May 2009 Posts: 2371 Location: Japan

See also Enrich 'Frugal' instead of doing full install:
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=62476

looseSCREWorTWO · Posted: Thu 02 Dec 2010, 02:31 Post_subject:

Like rjbrewer says, go for ext2 or ext3. the ext3 filesystem takes up more space but is more stable than ext2.

rj will advise you to do Full install and i will say do Frugal.

You could do a Full Install to one ext3 partition (sda1) and do a Frugal in a second ext3 partition (sda2), with Grub giving you the choice of which to use at Bootup.

Then you can run both types of install for a while and see which one works best for you.

Sky Aisling · Posted: Thu 02 Dec 2010, 13:57 Post_subject:

OK! I'm all geared up to do this install today. I shall go study what you have suggested and see what wonders I can wrought or what rotten wonders I can achieve Smile

News at 11:00...

Sky Aisling · Posted: Thu 02 Dec 2010, 14:03 Post_subject:

Quick text edit question:
How do I make links hot in text? Is that the 'URL' tag in the upper right hand corner of the message body controls?

Béèm · Posted: Thu 02 Dec 2010, 14:28 Post_subject:

RetroTechGuy · Joined: 15 Dec 2009 Posts: 2628 Location: USA

Sky Aisling · Posted: Thu 02 Dec 2010, 15:17 Post_subject:

I have decided to do a 'frugal' install.
I'll use rcrsn51 suggestions: http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=42876
I have also read Shinobars suggestions:
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=62476
Shinobars says not to use Grub-configurations but to use Grub4DOSConfig

I am now attempting to figure out how to download and extract the "one-click-installer" folder that rcrsn51 suggests. I've never done this. Do I use 'Pet Packages'?

Once I get the download I know how to manipulate the file location, do copies, and so on.

RetroTechGuy · Joined: 15 Dec 2009 Posts: 2628 Location: USA

RetroTechGuy · Joined: 15 Dec 2009 Posts: 2628 Location: USA

Sky Aisling · Posted: Thu 02 Dec 2010, 16:10 Post_subject:

Is Puppy Package Manager the correct app to use to find 'One-Click-Installer"?
If so,
I have opened Puppy Package Manager.
There are no packages listed as 'One-Click-Installer' or 'tar.gz'.
I've looked at 'all' the categories.
Does 'One-Click-Install' go by a different name?

Sky Aisling · Posted: Thu 02 Dec 2010, 16:17 Post_subject:

In Puppy Package Manager I did a search on 'all' categories with the file name: one-click-installer.tar.gz
The results were 'no matching package name'.

Where else do I go to find a download of one-click-installer.tar.gz ?

RetroTechGuy · Joined: 15 Dec 2009 Posts: 2628 Location: USA