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[POLL] Which method do you use to boot and run Puppy?
Posted: Mon 31 Jan 2011, 20:34
by amigo
I'm just wondering how most users boot and run their Puppy. I know that some of you probably run several different ways, so just vote for your main way of using Puppy, or you can vote for more than one choice (if that is even possible).
Hopefully I've covered the most common ways to boot and run, but if you have devised some other variant pick 'other' and explain how you do it.
It would also be interesting to know where you usually use Puppy -I mean do you use it mostly at home, or in an internet cafe, library or workplace.
Personally, I induction-boot it by holding the CD near a dead badgers head and then access a save file on the badgers NTFS(Not Too F***ing Swift) HD partition. The dead badger also has other distros installed, but I rarely use them -the poor badger was alive when I installed everything, but too much 'multi-booting' using conventional methods has taken a horrible toll on him!
Posted: Mon 31 Jan 2011, 20:52
by _Mark_
I had to get rid of my last dead badger, got a bit smelly I now have a new quad core ferret
Can you add a frugal install to a USB HD as that's how I use Puppy or I can use other, whatever
And as it's portable I can use it anywhere, but mostly at home occasional trips to the library
Posted: Tue 01 Feb 2011, 04:27
by James C
I do manual frugal hard drive installs for testing but my working installs are always full.Old habits are hard to break.
Posted: Tue 01 Feb 2011, 05:06
by rokytnji
Full and Frugal installs mostly, with a pinch of Flash Drive frugal installs also. Flash frugal Used for fixing other Linux Distros and for plugging into other gear (not mine). So voted frugal internal Hard drive as there is no option for more than 1 vote. Some use grub4dos and others grub legacy. I abhor grub2. Personal preferences only.
I do frugal/persistent AntiX to external Flash drives also.
Code: Select all
Disk /dev/sdc: 2003 MB, 2003828736 bytes
62 heads, 62 sectors/track, 1018 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 3844 * 512 = 1968128 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xd9980c3f
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdc1 * 1 342 657293 83 Linux
/dev/sdc2 343 1018 1299272 83 Linux
root@antiX1:/aufs/home/demo# inxi -F
System: Host antiX1 Kernel 2.6.32-1-mepis-smp i686 (32 bit) Distro antiX-686-beta1 10 December 2010
(beta testing AntiX 11. Which is almost ready for release. )
Posted: Tue 01 Feb 2011, 06:56
by aarf
Manual install grub booted frugal on SDcard. i guess thats other. Grub booted is also different to just having one copied frugal instal on SDcard and booting it by holding down esc key and selecting SDcard.
Posted: Tue 01 Feb 2011, 07:47
by GustavoYz
Manual frugal installations (just copy the files and add the correct entry to the menu.lst).
Posted: Tue 01 Feb 2011, 13:27
by stu90
Manual frugal install to internal hard drive partition - i also have a back up USB install on a thumb drive just in case my hard drive dies.
Posted: Tue 01 Feb 2011, 13:42
by jamesbond
Frugal install on both HD and USB (USB flash and USB HD) and SD card. Vote doesn't allow me to choose more than one - so I choose Frugal HD.
Puppy (or any of its variants) is primary OS for all machines - home, work, play.
How I installed - manual grub4dos (grldr) installation (either with bootlace.com, or bcdedit/grldr.mbr method, depending on wither W* co-existence is needed), followed by copying 3 (or 4) puppy files to the appropriate directory. Sometimes I use syslinux as well.
Posted: Tue 01 Feb 2011, 13:56
by nooby
Almost exclusively frugal install on the HDD but have also a frugal on two USB for to help neighbors and friends and one year ago I did three full install on old computers to learn how to add frugal install on Grub2 doing full install of Linux Mint and then frugal with puppy. That worked too but some old computers was bad at booting from usb.
Posted: Tue 01 Feb 2011, 14:02
by JaDy
I selected "Full installation on USB Flash" but not sure that correctly describes it.
I run LUPU511 from USB flash memory stick with lupusave on the stick.
I turned off the periodic save; save on shutdown is good enough.
I have a swap file on the hard disk.
I'd like to have an option to have file changes stored on the hard disk, not in RAM.
And then, upon shutdown (and using the SAVE button),
save the changes to USB flash memory in a manner similar to multi-session DVD.
Furthermore, a utility to combine all the session saves into a single file,
and to recover file changes in the event of a system crash.
If a swap file or partition is used then storing file changes on hard disk is virtual.
But if system crashes it would be nice to have file changes on hard disk for recovery.
Posted: Tue 01 Feb 2011, 19:44
by Laie
frugal on hdd solo on two desktops
frugal on hdd dual (with win98) on one desktop
frugal on hdd dual (with xp) on one notebook
frugal on hdd solo on one notebook
frugal on sd-card on a netbook (with win7)
live with savefile on hdd on one desktop
Posted: Wed 02 Feb 2011, 02:36
by big_bass
Hey amigo
I made a GUI grub4dos live cd that lets me select if I want to boot windows or linux
and the options I use the most
to ram
load save file
run fsck
so I usually boot live cd grub4dos and load the save file on hard drive
I have never uploaded this version since only the grub boot is different
when I do testing on a clean system I boot to ram
*I used to use for about 2-3 years just a frugal on a usb flash
but usb has some unique errors when working with very large files
mostly when compiling so I dont use this anymore
booting live cd gets around buggy bios that doesnt support a USB boot
Joe
Posted: Wed 02 Feb 2011, 14:54
by duke93535
Generally I use a full hard drive for my long term installs, but I also use the frugal and usb installs for the short term. As a long time user of Puppy, I find full installs easily accessible from my other Linux OSes like Slackware, Debian and Kubuntu.
duke
Posted: Wed 02 Feb 2011, 17:32
by Béèm
JaDy wrote:I selected "Full installation on USB Flash" but not sure that correctly describes it.
I run LUPU511 from USB flash memory stick with lupusave on the stick.
I turned off the periodic save; save on shutdown is good enough.
I have a swap file on the hard disk.
I'd like to have an option to have file changes stored on the hard disk, not in RAM.
And then, upon shutdown (and using the SAVE button),
save the changes to USB flash memory in a manner similar to multi-session DVD.
Furthermore, a utility to combine all the session saves into a single file,
and to recover file changes in the event of a system crash.
If a swap file or partition is used then storing file changes on hard disk is virtual.
But if system crashes it would be nice to have file changes on hard disk for recovery.
Are you the one who reported FULL to usb flash?
Unless you know how to do the exotic thing, normal install procedures don't permit a FULL to flash.
Besides from your description, you have a FRUGAL as you use a save file.