Hi guys,
I'm new to this forum and linux too.
I thought of installing a lightweight distro of linux and did some research on the net where I found people recommending Puppy Linux. Plus it is (theoretically speaking) possible to run it from a USB (flash) drive which I decided to try out but it seems like it's not that simple a task as a lot of people (all over the internet) say it is.
What I tried so far is this: installing it into a thumb drive using unetbootin follwing a youtube tutorial (which basically showed how to download an iso of puppy, use unetbootin to make the thumbdrive bootable and install puppy on it). It didn't work. The USB wasn't recognized as a bootable device. I know for sure it can be booted from it since I tried ubuntu from the same USB and the same Laptop (which is able to boot from USB).
I thought that something with the Flash Drive not OK so I tried to use a windows installer to install puppy like other windows programms but this didn't work either. This time Puppy was recognized because there was an option to boot either Puppy or Windows 7 but when I chose to boot from Puppy nothing happens just a screen flash, some letters in the top left corner saying something like NTSC or NTSF (I can't read it properly because it goes away too fast) then after the screen flash the whole thing again (boot from win 7 or Puppy I choose Puppy again the flash... basically a loop).
Any ideas what I'm doing wron or what the problem is?
Thank You for any replies.
Have completely low level formatted hard disk on an old pc created a partion run live cd successfully - puppy precise- and use the install wizard to install to the partition...frugal.
changed the bios to boot from hdd on reboot it seems that it is recognising the os but then a black screen with a flashing dash top left. any ideas?
I have installed linux(mint and ubuntu) on a few laptops, but i have an ASUS eEEE netbook PC..Atom processor...No DVD drive...
I have chosen PUPPY Linux distro, and I have booted from a thumb a few times to make sure everything seems to work....but...when I start trying to install...well...its asking me about using the partition tool to change the types of partitions that are best for linux...
I am not understanding the instructions...as far as what i need to do...has anybody done this install ,,,the current netbook OS is Windows Starter 7. I just want to REPLACE it entirely with linux puppy. I did not encounter this on my laptop installs..i just said yes...replace the current OS..but somehow the netbook install is acting different....do i need to change the partitions or can i just take the defaults...I forge the exact partition extentsions..something line ntfs and it says to change to ext2 and ext3...not sure how to do that...
Can some direct me to the best way to do this? thx.
Im trying to break free from windows. just got puppy 4.3.1 and know nothing about linux . after trying a full install it will not reboot without cd in the drive, just says error loading operating system.My system has more than required amount of ram and almost 40 gig hd. have only 1 partition formated to ext2. could not figure how to use grub.
ps. also canot connect to wireless router
Can I execute freedos from puppy linux? I've just started using linux and I don't know any of the commands or its capabilities. I have freedos in a separate partition and I have grub4dos but I don't know how to configure it. Frugal Puppy linux boots fine from the grub4DOS.
Hi,
Decided to dip my toe in the Linux pool with Puppy 5.2.8 from a magazine cover disc. I would like to use it with my faithful old Samsung SF-4300 C SmartJet printer but this model is not listed on the printer set-up menu. Anyone out there managed to make this connection?
The PC is a Dell Dimension 4550 Series with Win XP installed but I suspect the hard drive is on the blink, hence my interest in a RAM-based alternative.
I would be very grateful for your suggestions.
Bob
Hello,
I loaded the legacy OS 2 files from the ISO (vmlinuz, initrd.gz and pup_214.sfs) into a CF card (on an IDE adapter in my old PC). This CF card can be mounted on an USB adapter later for booting diverse PCs.
It boots..
and stop later with an error.
... looking for Puppy in .. (diverse devices) DONE
... looking for pup_save.2fs in .. (diverse devices) DONE
... (STOP TO PROMPT) cannot find Puppy in idehd.
Question: what is the reason of stop? should I perhaps use a specific boot code?
my syslinux.cfg has
label puppy
kernel vmlinuz
append initrd=initrd.gz PMEDIA=usbflash
Hi there.
I am a total newbie to Linux, and I've just downloaded Slacko Puppy onto a usb stick to use on my old netbook.
It seems to run fantastically from the stick, but I am having trouble putting it onto the HDD. I have already had it on there once, but it appears to be locked and I cannot see how to uninstall it, so that I may start fresh. Can anyone help?
I have an old Pentium 3 all in one computer. This computer will have one dedicated use, which is to watch video streamed over the network from a Slingbox type device. My only requirement is that I can run VLC to play the MPEG2-TS stream. I also want VLC to automatically paly and audio CD when it is placed in the CD drive. Therefore I really don’t require many codecs. My only other requirement is that I will need to load drivers for a wireless remote or something so that I can control VLC.
At the moment the PC does the above with windows XP, but it takes far too long to load. As I only want the computer to perform this one task, what Linux distro would people suggest for the quickest boot? I have so far tried puppy but it still takes a while to load. Does anyone have any suggestions where to go from here?
I am very new to Linux so will need something which is not too hard to setup.
Did it again!
Last week, with help from this forum, I was able to install Linux Mint 17.1 dual boot with Windows 8.1. It worked so well, I decided to explore other Linux distros recommended by forum members as some I wanted to check out.
I was using Unetbootin to download and install these as live sessions on my Windows 8.1 partition.
On my last such download, something went wrong, and no doubt I caused the error, but no clue as to how.
When I opened up this PC, I got the normal dual boot option for Windows and Mint. When I selected Windows, I found an additional dual boot option between it and Unetbootin! Somehow I created a partition (?) on my C Drive for Unetbootin (see Thumbnail below).
This Unetbootin option only goes to a page for me to choose another OS. Further, when I rebooted, the Windows/Mint dual boot option no longer existed, just the Windows/Unetbootin one.
Been checking out various articles and websites about BCD/MBR repair, but nothing definitive (that I can understand) about modifying these to delete the Unetbootin partition and restoring the Windows/linux dual boot.
Naturally, this is a newbie land mine area, so I'm very reluctant to try anything I can't fully understand, which is the category everything I've Googled on this topic falls into.
Anyone know how I can resolve this short of a complete start over
installation based on steps that basically a PC fence post can follow?
TIA
Cheers!
computer does not give option to boot lucid puppy from cd/usb on starting computer