Simplest answer might be to reinstall 4.2 or upgrade to 4.31. This assumes you do not have a lot of additions or files that needed to be backed up first. It's what I'd do, but I don't know puppy's ins and outs well enough for a better answer. Good luck.

I did some searching on the forum.

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=24740

This has a partial list of modem cards that Puppy works with. When you get back to the computer, find the card's manufacturer and model number and see what others have been able to do with it. Good luck.

It's a modem card inside the box that I know works. But does it work with the Microsoft Windows operating system or a Linux distribution? Those modem cards have a bad reputation with Linux. Hit the Menu button in the lower left corner of the Puppy screen and select Help. Go down to the Puppy-specif...

At the moment, I have more questions than answers. What type of modem do you have? Is it an external, serial modem, or is it a card inside the computer box. External modems seem to work well, but many of the modem cards do not play nicely with Linux. What message appears when you hit the Probe butto...

The clock on this computer keeps thinking it needs to be set to GMT+8. I've tried to edit all the references in any startup programs so that it --utc but.... Its back to this +8 junk. How? I'm not sure. What is the correct and proper way to set the clock to GMT time and have it STAY that way.. Have...

how can i put my hardrives in the desktop? i can see my hdc1 but my hdc2 and the sda weren't.. please help. In Puppy 4.2.1, click on the menu button in the bottom left corner of the screen and go to Desktop/Desktop drive icons manager. Tick the box for drive icons and the box for partition icons. R...

Look in the Puppy file system for ~/spot/README.txt. That's where the information is in my Puppy 4.2.1 distro. Spot is set as the default restricted user account for those who do not want to be root. If you want to use a different account name, I think you'd have to either do a full install on the c...

If I don't know how to fix Puppy manually, I just reinstall it. I must have done it half a dozen times the first week. It's a good idea to save data files in a separate partition. (grin)

I'm a relative newbie to Puppy myself. However, just off the top of my head, I was wondering whether you were trying to mount an optical drive without any disk in it. If there was a disk in the drive, what sort was it? Data? Music? Rewritable? Other? If you have a Puppy live CD on a plain vanilla wr...

Forgot to write that this info is from my Puppy 4.21 full install. I expect that it is the same in Puppy 4.31, though.

The screen font size can be changed easily. Click on the menu button in the lower left corner of the desktop and go to Desktop/Select global font size. Click on the button marked 60, which is the smallest font size. The size does not change until the computer is rebooted. I do not know of any easy w...

Have you tried formatting the whole flash drive without partitions and putting the OS on that?

I tried to use a bootpup floppy to start puppy 4.0 on a partitioned flash drive. It couldn't seem to find the OS on the partition though it boots fine to an OS on an unpartitioned flash drive. Good luck.

I'm lazy and run as adminstrator most of the time, too.

But there is a regular user, non-administrator account automatically set up in puppy 4. It's under the name "spot". In /home/spot, there is a file telling how to move back and forth between being administrator and spot.

Do NOT use my big post above. Do not use Puppy's installer. That post was done before I understood what wubi is. I thought it was some sort of Ubuntu installation in a linux partition, not in the Windows partition. I think you should go to the Lin'N'Win reference. Follow the installation and menu.ls...

Glad to hear you got your bootup back. I've never heard of either wubi or the lin'n'win project. So I can't help much except generally. If there is a choice between windows and wubi when booting, I'd look around in wubi to find its equivalent of menu.lst. Ubuntu uses menu.lst, so maybe wubi does, to...

System: 3 year old Dell GX620, integrated graphics and sound, 3.2 GHz Pentium 4, 1 GB of RAM, 2 SATA HD (sd1 = 160 GB, sd2 = 250 GB) dual booting Windows XP SP3 (sd1) and Ubuntu Linux 7.04 (sd2). Installation type: Puppy Linux 4.00 Dingo, frugal installation to the Ubuntu partition on sd2, triple bo...

Of those three links, the second and third are for dual and triple booting from Apple OS X. I'd rather not go there if I can avoid it. The first link is MicroSoft's tips for editing the BOOT.INI file in the Windows partition. It may be helpful, but I found a different link for how to install puppy t...

I'm dual-booting Windows XP and Ubuntu on my main box and want to add a frugal installation of Puppy. I found a post that might help both of us. http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=30831 It looks like doing the fugal installation to the existing linux partition and just editing the exis...

I have been having a similar problem with one program. A week or two back I got a compressed help format file for FreeBASIC and downloaded a pup or pet to read it. I think the program was named something like chm.exe or chr.exe. The reader program and the file are in the same directory. If I double ...

You log in as root, but you do not have to stay root. You can use the "spot" user account in the Puppy 4.00 installation or set up your own user account. Check the readme file in /root/spot.