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From: Art on 3 Aug 2010 17:00 On Tue, 03 Aug 2010 12:31:44 -0700, Mike Easter <MikeE(a)ster.invalid> wrote: Mike, I just want to quickly mention one thing. >If you really want to install it to hdd, Murga has a page on that called >'frugal install'. That's what the so-called install to partition #4 was ... a "frugal install". Puppy has that option. Thanks much for your help and comments. Art
From: What's in a Name? on 3 Aug 2010 06:11 On Wed, 04 Aug 2010 01:10:37 +0800, Art <null(a)zilch.com> wrote: > On Fri, 30 Jul 2010 18:26:35 +0800, "What's in a Name?" > <maxwachtel(a)gmail.com> wrote: > >> Latest puppy beta Lupu-507 >> http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=55740 >> Boots directly to desktop using CD, USB or install to hard drive. Great >> to >> recover files from windows(ntfs drivers). So far so good. > > I've been having much fun with Puppy ever since you posted this. As a > Linux knoob, it took me awhile to get things organized and working. > For the first time, I tried Wine and got a kick out of running my > Windows Free Cell game from Puppy. In fact, I'm posting this from > my Windows Free Agent newsreader while in Puppy. > > I wound up with a stange situation (don't ask) where Puppy is > installed on the 4th partition of my hard drive, and I must boot using > the Puppy CD as a crutch. I've tried without any success to find a > way to make a boot-up floppy. Do you know how this can be > done with Puppy? Better yet would be a true mult-boot where I > could simply select which system partition I want. But I'd be > satisfied to just use a boot floppy when I want to run Puppy. > Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to have mkbootdisk facility and > the even slicker method (forgot what it's called) doesn't seem to be > available yet. > > BTW, I'm running Puppy on a old Dell Precision 330 having a > 1.7 ghz cpu and 384 meg RAM. Puppy seems suited to this > older environment. > > Art I use grub4dos to dual boot a frugal install with w2k. I found instructions here. http://www.icpug.org.uk/national/linnwin/step00-linnwin.htm -- This message was created using Opera 10.6 on Puppy Linux 5.0.8 I'm Max Wachtel and I approve this message. Registered Linux User #393236
From: What's in a Name? on 3 Aug 2010 09:05 On Wed, 04 Aug 2010 01:10:37 +0800, Art <null(a)zilch.com> wrote: > On Fri, 30 Jul 2010 18:26:35 +0800, "What's in a Name?" > <maxwachtel(a)gmail.com> wrote: > >> Latest puppy beta Lupu-507 >> http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=55740 >> Boots directly to desktop using CD, USB or install to hard drive. Great >> to >> recover files from windows(ntfs drivers). So far so good. > > I've been having much fun with Puppy ever since you posted this. As a > Linux knoob, it took me awhile to get things organized and working. > For the first time, I tried Wine and got a kick out of running my > Windows Free Cell game from Puppy. In fact, I'm posting this from > my Windows Free Agent newsreader while in Puppy. > > I wound up with a stange situation (don't ask) where Puppy is > installed on the 4th partition of my hard drive, and I must boot using > the Puppy CD as a crutch. I've tried without any success to find a > way to make a boot-up floppy. Do you know how this can be > done with Puppy? Better yet would be a true mult-boot where I > could simply select which system partition I want. But I'd be > satisfied to just use a boot floppy when I want to run Puppy. > Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to have mkbootdisk facility and > the even slicker method (forgot what it's called) doesn't seem to be > available yet. > > BTW, I'm running Puppy on a old Dell Precision 330 having a > 1.7 ghz cpu and 384 meg RAM. Puppy seems suited to this > older environment. > > Art I have been have so much fun that I downloaded 3 versions 4.3.2, Lucid 5.0.8 and Luci 2.3.1 I really like the latest lucid. grub4dos lets me choose among the 4 OS's(quad-boot) Running on an old compaq laptop PII233/160mb. -- This message was created using Opera 10.6 on Puppy Linux 5.0.8 I'm Max Wachtel and I approve this message. Registered Linux User #393236
From: Art on 4 Aug 2010 05:39 On Tue, 03 Aug 2010 18:11:41 +0800, "What's in a Name?" <maxwachtel(a)gmail.com> wrote: >I use grub4dos to dual boot a frugal install with w2k. I found >instructions here. >http://www.icpug.org.uk/national/linnwin/step00-linnwin.htm Very detailed instructions. I'll be working on that today, thanks. More accurately I should say "playing with that today" :) Art
From: Art on 4 Aug 2010 06:49
On Tue, 03 Aug 2010 18:11:41 +0800, "What's in a Name?" <maxwachtel(a)gmail.com> wrote: >I use grub4dos to dual boot a frugal install with w2k. I found >instructions here. >http://www.icpug.org.uk/national/linnwin/step00-linnwin.htm I condensed his instructions as follows: Linux Puppy 5.0.7 multi-boot for Win 2K and/or XP ------------------------------------------------------- 1. Download grldr and menu.lst from http://www.icpug.org.uk/national/programs 3. Copy both files to root c:\ 4. Edit c:\boot.ini file in Notepad adding the last line line c:\grldr="Start_Linux" 5. Create folder c:\puppy507 6. From the Puppy 5.0.7 live cd copy 3 files initrd.gz vmlinuz lupu-507.sfs to c:\puppy507 If lupu-507.sfs is copied as lupu_507.sfs then rename it to change the underscore to a minus sign. 7. In Notepad edit c:\menu.lst adding 3 lines just prior to final line of ### characters: title Puppy Linux 5.0.7 kernel (hd0,0)/puppy507/vmlinuz PMEDIA=idehd PDEV1=sda1 Psubdir=puppy507 initrd (hd0,0)/puppy507/initrd.gz ---------------------------------------------- Works very well. Art |