Need help installing pup on old IBM laptop(solved)

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Sit Heel Speak · #136 Post by **Sit Heel Speak** » Fri 28 Apr 2006, 03:57

Back. The Forum was not letting me log on from 7PM til now.

You should be able to get to Windows by choosing "Windows" in the config.sys menu. That should boot you directly into Windows. If it doesn't, then there is something wrong with your config.sys or autoexec.bat.

Assuming you now have grub.exe and its associated files in C:\Puppy\bootgrub, copy the saved menu.lst from previously to whatever subdirectory your --config-file= parameter in the line in autoexec which starts grub points to. In other words, the old menu.lst should work just fine.

Then boot the Thinkpad and tell me how far it gets.

pelokwin · #137 Post by **pelokwin** » Fri 28 Apr 2006, 04:18

alright I got a new error msg.
C: Puppy\bootgrub\grub.exe --config-file=(hd0,0)/puppy/bootgrub/menu.lst (all one line)
Bad command or file name

Sit Heel Speak · #138 Post by **Sit Heel Speak** » Fri 28 Apr 2006, 04:38

Sorry for this taking so long. My ISP is having difficulties tonight.

It appears that either grub.exe (and its associated files) is missing from subdir c:\puppy\bootgrub, or else menu.lst is missing from c:\puppy\bootgrub.

Are they in fact there? i.e. does issuing from the DOS prompt

dir c:\puppy\bootgrub\grub.exe

produce a result?

dir c:\puppy\bootgrub\menu.lst

?

pelokwin · #139 Post by **pelokwin** » Fri 28 Apr 2006, 04:59

ok this dir c:\puppy\bootgrub\grub.exe gives me this msg volume in drive c has no label
volume serial number is 1625-0ef3
dir c:\puppy\bootgrub\grub
file not found 1,240,530,944 bytes free
this dir c:\puppy\bootgrub\menu.lst gave me this
drive c has no label
volume serial number is 1625-0ef3
dir c:\puppy\bootgrub\grub
menu lst 201 04-19-06 10:39p menu.lst
1 file 201 bytes
0 dir 1,240,530,944 bytes free[/b]

Sit Heel Speak · #140 Post by **Sit Heel Speak** » Fri 28 Apr 2006, 05:07

Where did you copy the new grub.exe to?

Boot Windows and use Start - File - Find grub.exe beginning with C:\ as uppermost directory.

Or, though it will take longer, you can from the DOS prompt issue

c:
cd \
dir /b /s grub.exe | find "grub" /i

(| = pipe character, shift-backslash)

Modify the autoexec.bat line to point to it, in other words if it's in C:\ then make the line read

C:\grub.exe --config-file=(hd0,0)/puppy/bootgrub/menu.lst

and try it.

Sit Heel Speak · #141 Post by **Sit Heel Speak** » Fri 28 Apr 2006, 05:11

Correction: according to your directory listing, menu.lst is in subdirectory c:\puppy\bootgrub\grub, so if grub.exe is in c:\puppy\bootgrub then the line should read

C:\puppy\bootgrub\grub.exe --config-file=(hd0,0)/puppy/bootgrub/grub/menu.lst

pelokwin · #142 Post by **pelokwin** » Fri 28 Apr 2006, 05:35

we just might have it

Sit Heel Speak · #143 Post by **Sit Heel Speak** » Fri 28 Apr 2006, 05:40

OK, I'm waiting here with bated biscuit breath...

pelokwin · #144 Post by **pelokwin** » Fri 28 Apr 2006, 05:44

I HAVE PUPPY!!!!!! THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR TIME AND FOR STICKING WITH ME

pelokwin · #145 Post by **pelokwin** » Fri 28 Apr 2006, 05:57

UMM HOW DO i MARK THIS TOPIC AS SOLVED?

Sit Heel Speak · #146 Post by **Sit Heel Speak** » Fri 28 Apr 2006, 06:26

My ISP was totally out of service for half an hour there.

Go to Page 1, your very first message, and edit the subject line.

Sit Heel Speak · #147 Post by **Sit Heel Speak** » Fri 28 Apr 2006, 06:33

There is a little bit of cleanup we can still do. For instance, move the line

@echo off

to the very top of your autoexec.bat, and the lines won't double-echo.

In menu.lst change PSLEEP=25 to PSLEEP=999 (or, add it if it's not there, in the kernel line)

and Puppy will copy the contents of pup001 to RAM, run it from there, and then save pup001 back to disk at shutdown time. This makes Puppy run faster.

pelokwin · #148 Post by **pelokwin** » Fri 28 Apr 2006, 06:52

Cool thanks.
I have to get some sleep now but I will be back now and then(tomorow night) to get more knoledge

so I hope to talk to you later

Sit Heel Speak · #149 Post by **Sit Heel Speak** » Fri 28 Apr 2006, 06:58

OK see you then. If you look over in Announcements, the new snapshot of Puppy 2 Alpha has been released by BarryK and is temporarily available at MU's fast website. My advice is, get it while you can, before MU runs out of bandwidth.

toddyjoe · #150 Post by **toddyjoe** » Fri 28 Apr 2006, 15:44

I have been watching the thread and am glad you two finally got this to work. Here is a sincere pat on the back and "Good job!" congratulations to both of you.

#151 Post by MU » Fri 28 Apr 2006, 18:20

hehe, that was a "long birth", as we say in germany.
Congratulations, and respect to both of you for your patience

Mark

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