Need help installing pup on old IBM laptop(solved)
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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.
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.
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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
?
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
?
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]
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]
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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.
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.
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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.
@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.
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