Use LILO (from another distro) to boot Puppy w/o CD

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#16 Post by Pizzasgood »

Off -topic - if wish to ask about any Puppy Cfgs - NOT how to implement them -
I.E. initrd.gz ~ or why /mnt was chosen for swap - where should this be posted ?
Probably the "users" section.

I actually haven't gotten around to installing Lilo in Puppy yet. The only reason I use it is because it's already there from my Vector install. I don't need Vector anymore though, so when I repartition my drive in the near future I'll have to install something. I plan to use Grub since it comes with Puppy. If I wind up not liking it I'll take a whack at Lilo.

Another thing to watch out for when chrooting is mounted (or unmounted) filesystems. Just because you have /dev/hdb2 mounted in Puppy doesn't mean it is in whatever you're chrooting into. Unless you mount it to the appropriate location in that distro from Puppy or chroot, that is.
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Using lilo to boot Puppy w/oCD

#17 Post by gaston »

See the next post.

Merci.
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#18 Post by gaston »

Using LILO (from another distro) to boot Puppy w/o CD

"Frugal Install," "Poor Man's Install," or "Option 1 install" using Lilo
These instructions will work for Puppy 1 and Puppy 2. I wrote it for 2, but for 1 you just replace 'initrd.gz' with 'image.gz', 'pup_xxx.sfs' with 'usr_cram.fs', and 'pup_save.3fs' with 'pupxxx'.

Step 1
First, you need to choose which partition to use with the pup_save.3fs file. You need to put pup_xxx.sfs (pup_202.sfs for Puppy 2.02) there. If you already have a pup_save.3fs file or devx_xxx.sfs file that you want to use, they go there too. They all neet to be at the top of that partition.

Does Puppy 1 and Puppy 2 mean frugal and full partition installation?
How do we place the files at the top of the partition?

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#19 Post by Pizzasgood »

"Frugal Install," "Poor Man's Install," or "Option 1 install"
That part means for the "Frugal Install". I haven't done a full hd install, so I'm not sure how that would work. That's why my instructions are just for a frugal install.

Puppy 1 means Puppy 1.x.x, which would be like Puppy 1.0.5 or Puppy 1.0.8.
Puppy 2 means Puppy 2.xx, which would be like Puppy 2.02 or Puppy 2.11.


If you already have a save-file, you can just boot Puppy and go to /mnt/home to access the top level of the partition. Otherwise, you would boot from the live-cd and mount the harddrive with MUT (the icon that says "drives") or Pmount, which are also in the start menu under "utilities". Pmount should be in nearly all versions of Puppy, but MUT might not be in very old Puppies.

When MUT mounts a drive, it pops up a window with the top level in it. I think Pmount does too, but I'm not sure.

The files you need are on the cd. In MUT or Pmount, mount your cd. Then you can drag the files to the other window.


If you can't use a cd, it's more complicated. There are several threads about that already.

If you need more specific help, you'll need to tell me what version you want to install, and how you want to install it. Also, I apologize if any of this is unclear. It's past my bed time :wink:
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#20 Post by gaston »

Pizzasgood wrote:
"Frugal Install," "Poor Man's Install," or "Option 1 install"
That part means for the "Frugal Install". I haven't done a full hd install, so I'm not sure how that would work. That's why my instructions are just for a frugal install.

Puppy 1 means Puppy 1.x.x, which would be like Puppy 1.0.5 or Puppy 1.0.8.
Puppy 2 means Puppy 2.xx, which would be like Puppy 2.02 or Puppy 2.11.


If you already have a save-file, you can just boot Puppy and go to /mnt/home to access the top level of the partition. Otherwise, you would boot from the live-cd and mount the harddrive with MUT (the icon that says "drives") or Pmount, which are also in the start menu under "utilities". Pmount should be in nearly all versions of Puppy, but MUT might not be in very old Puppies.

When MUT mounts a drive, it pops up a window with the top level in it. I think Pmount does too, but I'm not sure.

The files you need are on the cd. In MUT or Pmount, mount your cd. Then you can drag the files to the other window.


If you can't use a cd, it's more complicated. There are several threads about that already.

If you need more specific help, you'll need to tell me what version you want to install, and how you want to install it. Also, I apologize if any of this is unclear. It's past my bed time :wink:

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#21 Post by Pizzasgood »

I'm not sure what quoting me means.... Is it like saying, "Okay, sounds good!", or is it like saying "Eh? What?"

If you don't have the cd (or not cd drive) you can get the files you need by mounting the iso (assuming you have another os running on the computer).

First, you'd download the iso file (the file you burn to the cd). Then, if you're in linux, you mount it. Sunburnt wrote an app for that I believe. Otherwise you can use mount <isofile> /mnt/data -o loop. Then the files would be in /mnt/data. From Windows, there is a program called 'IsoBuster' that can extract files from an iso. I don't know about from things like BSD or Mac, but I think they would be similar to the mount command.

Maybe the phrase 'top of the partition' isn't clear enough? It means the top of the filetree. As in C: in Windows, or /mnt/home/ Puppy, or / in a normal Linux.

I'm out of ideas now, so you're going to have to do better than quoting my post if I haven't helped you yet. :| An explanation would be nice.
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Can grub be used also?

#22 Post by cruzin »

I have grub for a loader in suse9.3. I ran into problems. When I start the computer I have the option of Linux, Windows or Puppy
When I choose Puppy I get the error (unrecognized device string) calling out (root /dev/ram0) error 11. Any clues? thanks

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#23 Post by Pizzasgood »

Grub can definitely work. I'm using it now. I don't know much about it though, and this thread should probably stick to Lilo.

There have been many posts about it, so I'd suggest doing a search to see if anything useful turns up. Otherwise feel free to start a new thread about it.

Note: It is a good idea to state how you have Puppy installed (i.e. full harddrive install or frugal harddrive install). That will affect what the menu.lst file should look like.
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#25 Post by TonshA »

Hi.

I just wanted to report that this solution worked for me. Following PG's instructions to the letter.

I have a dual boot - WinXP & SamLinux2006 - and wanted to use a frugal install of Pizzapup 3.0.1 on a completely separate partition.

Trying to install Grub didn't work - neither Pizzapup nor SamLinux would boot up again. Kept getting kernal panic.

In the end, I re-installed SamLinux and searched the forum for these instructions (I knew I had seen them, but it took a while to pin them down). Everything worked fine!

Thanks PizzasGood!

DaveA

P.S. "Why 3 distros?" you may ask. Well, Pizzapup for me & the wife - quick and easy to use. SamLinux for the games for the kids - they love TuxRacer, SuperTux, Powermanga, TuxKarts & Wormux. And Windows for Personal Ancestral File (That's ALL - GRAMPS doesn't cut it I'm afraid).

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