How To Install Puppy Linux To Hdd Media
I have been using puppy for years to pull data off of infected windows machines but finally tried it on a laptop I was given. It was unusable with windows installed, a little slow with Ubuntu, but puppy has been a really good find. The only thing that I don’t like about it is that there are no updates. From what I have read, there is only one person that is really driving the development and he is concentrating on getting new versions out.
The forum is a really helpful tool. It does have info on how to install new versions of the software, so the lack of updates isn’t really a big problem.
Well worth a try. @immrlizard:I had similar problems with the same distros and that’s why I decided to switch to Puppy for my old laptop. I don’t mind the lack of updates, am just happy that I can perform the tasks that I need to with the current release!@Elise:From what I read on the, the newer versions need at least 128 MB of RAM to run efficiently. The same thing is stated on the, however it does mention that DSL can “run light enough to power a 486DX with 16MB of Ram”. It is possible that both distros will run on your system, but judging from this info they will have reduced performance.
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A sufficient swap partition usually helps.If you just want to choose one, I would recommend DSL, am guessing it will run faster and smoother. If speed however is not the only thing that you care about, the best thing you can do is use a Live CD to check for yourself. Just go for the distribution that best suits your needs and likes!Good luck on whatever you decide! Nice HOWTO, Puppy is definitely a fine little distro. I always keep a USB with the latest release on it. Something that could be pointed out though is that you always have root privileges (a.k.a.
“Administrator” in Windows), so one has to keep in mind that it lacks a security layer present in more conventional “for HDD installation” distributions.@ eliseDSL is nice on older hardware, though notice that it hasn’t been updated for a while, thus might quite a few security updates (on the top of my head, I could mention the recent NULL Pointer Dereference exploit). I began using Puppy a short time ago ( 4.1, 4.2, 4.3 and have tried the older versions also) on an averatec 3250 due to issues with the video card not being out of the box supported by many other distros. Everything works right at startup, except one small issue I had with setting up wireless using an ASCII 128 bit pass code for encryption under WEP.The only thing that needed to be set was found after I went through the man pages for iwlan was that it requires the use of the s:XXXXXXXXXXXX when setting the pass code in the wireless configuration. After I found that it has been smooth sailing.I have installed some additional PET packages and it is a ice distro on the averatec 3250.
This is the only distro that has not taken huge amounts of tweaking to get to function. Sorry guys but I have no internet for a couple of days now.I hope I will be coming back in a few days.@Paul:It might sound silly, but did you check to make sure that the connection is OK from another OS or PC?If yes, does Puppy report finding a live connection before trying to connect to it?And with which program are you trying to connect to the internet? Did you try with more than one just to verify the problem?In addition, this problem is usual in all OS’s if you have a low wi-fi signal. Ciccio, I hope you did not give up!Your problem is you did not format the hard drive properly.
Boot the live disk, select g-parted from menu-system an create a primary partition anywhere from 512mb to 1,256 gigs depending on how much you space you have, it does not take long to fatten puppy if you install wine,open office etc. Format it to ext3, My advice is to install as frugal and boot off the cd. It is easy to back up or have multiple puppys and add sfs files like Open Office etc.
Puppy Linux Requirements
The only place I ever do full installs is on flash drive.All you have to do is open the disk and shut down and create a pupsave file and copy everything it suggests to, You can back up the whole os in 2 minutes and restore even faster!If you do a full install you have to format the partition and then go back and add a boot flag as was suggested earlier.If you think you will add windows leave the first partition formatted to fat32-you can reformat to NTFS later if you install windows. Linux reads and rights to fat 32 better than NTFS, It is a bit harder to install windows after linux but not that hard if you have good directions,Puppy is different but once you get it it is super easy and super fast.
Go to the forums for help or to freenode on irc and got to the puppylinux channel. If you click on the chat icon on the desktop it takes you there automatically.Puppy is jyst as fast on the cd once it boots as it runs in ram but I don’t like the seamonkey browser. If you are on dialup do a search for “FireDog, stylish, faster,puppy linux” and install it, Follow the instructions to remove seamonkey. Firedog is based on FF2 so some sites don;t support it anymore but it is way faster on dialup and is a cool setup. Firefox 3,6, opera and chrome all work well.You can install a different browser and remaster the cd but it is easier to do a frugal install or to a flash drive.
Thanks tetris4. Yeah, at xorgwizard menu, i choose Vesa as it works with Gpartitioner and, Knoppix live (which incidentally fails to install if knoppix-installer is attempted – in this case with a partition error.) using the resolution you mentioned above, and other smaller rez’s, only to return to red text “If X didnt work, type xorgwizard, etc” every time Puzzling. The only distribution I successfully installed was SimplyMepis 6, but it wont recognize either usb dongle nor pcmcia card, so no internet, which renders it near useless.
Kernel building is beyond my abilities as I am a novice at linux. I run Ubuntu on my machines which is great, but this old laptop is a challenge. I’ll try some other variations of Puppy.