Also, a swap file is not created if the pup_save file is on an NTFS partition. It did for me! It didn't create it in the NTFS partition...rather, in a FAT partition...but it created it, although there was a pup_save file on the NTFS partition. (Note, this is August 2011, with Puppy 4.x and Barry po...

I'm sad to report that while updating my BIOS over PXE worked, the BIOS update did not fix the problems with my laptop. It still won't boot from anything but the hard disk or PXE. I have it running (netbooted) Puppy now. I unplugged the AC power and it's running "dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/null&qu...

Thanks @Aitch. Those are good approaches you present. I am going to open a new thread. It should helps us with 2 things which is what we working to solve. An approach to getting a non-Puppy ISO/IMA to boot a PC over PXE. And, to investigate what can be done to embrace a technology (a PET) in Puppy ...

Update your BIOS over the network via PXE using Puppy Linux as the server! WARNING: BIOS upgrades are always dangerous because they modify the Basic Input-Output System that operates your computer's hardware. If anything goes wrong during the update (such as a power interruption), or if there is an...

@ShellyCat...I agree, it would be nice if we could accommodate those methods in our NETBOOT in Puppyland, too. Yes, I was using your 5-step-PXE (netboot-server) method with Terry Burton's BIOS-upgrade-over-PXE-method. It works! And probably the only reason it took so long is I am new to PXE, and ne...

I worked really late, so I didn't start this until well after suppertime. I was able to modify Terry Burton's method (with a few details from kharn's, as well) to successfully update (via PXE) the BIOS of my Toshiba Satellite M115-S3094. (Whether the upgrade solved my problems remains to be seen.) [...

Dealing with the floppy disk ".exe" took quite a hassle. First, "unzip" will not extract it. Second, "peazip" extracts it to just a single ".ima" image file. (I've never even seen that before.) You have to use WinZip (or possibly some other Windows-only utilit...

It came to me later while trying to sleep, I think I remember something about ".rom" files being the actual BIOS...so I searched for pl190.rom . From this mailing-list thread, this seems correct: http://www.bios-mods.com/forum/printthread.php?tid=1079 I will report back how the BIOS update...

It appears extending this PXE method only involves making one big ISO out of Puppy Linux files...and they would have to be Puppy? So it's back to the floppy disk image for BIOS update. Well, I'm a little confused as to what files are what. Please excuse me for my ignorance. Here's what unzipped from...

Hi gcmartin, The laptop netboots successfully, but the PXE server shows errors (still running in "debug" mode, by the way). In addition, Quickset Puppy does not detect the NIC properly or load a driver. I'm going to try the BIOS first. I have a laptop that won't boot from anything but PXE ...

Sorry gcmartin, it was on LinuxQuestions.org that I heard of flashing BIOS over PXE. Here are 3 useful links (one given by Aitch): LQ discussion: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-laptop-and-netbook-25/the-ever-popular-bios-update-through-linux-837572/ kharn's abode: http://kahrn.com/blo...

Hello, again! Thank you for trying to help me troubleshoot, gcmartin. I haven't had time to check back until now. Hi @ShellyCat. Is it true that you were able to get at least one PC on your LAN to startup from the PXE server? Let us know. Thankfully, I did not have a problem PXE-ing, I just wondered...

I'll see if it works. [EDIT] Okay, this was strange. I have my pupsave file in "/mnt/home/Puppy". (I had done this in case I needed to save anything else to the partition mounted at "/mnt/home". Don't ask me for an example of why...I really don't know.) Puppy has no problem loadi...

Thanks for your help.

Unfortunately, it seems the available SFS files have the wrong extension (this is what "Bootmanager" tells me. I tried renaming it "...431.sfs" to test (the most recent is only 421), but that didn't work.

Apparently Bootmanager cannot be fooled.

I could not find a Firefox older than 2.0 for my Puppy 4.3.1. However, many websites linked from some posts here are broken or won't work with Seamonkey. However, I found out that Firefox 3.0.10 is in the Puppy 5 repo. And it works fine with Puppy 4! (I am using Quickset Puppy (based off Puppy 4.3.1...

Hello, I downloaded the devx to "/mnt/home" but I get "bash: gcc: command not found" (and the same for g++). To test commands, I always try: gcc --help So I will get either (a) the help text, (b) a message that the option isn't recognized followed by a list of valid options, or (...

... I have some questions for the future, if you don't mind. Also, some errors on the PXE server which may be normal or not: can you tell me? ... DHCP ip range 192.168.1.100-192.168.1.200 lease 1 hr eth0 00:a0:d1:63:46:8d offered 192.168.1.172 requested 192.168.1.172 error 0 TFTP Aborted received f...

That was a very nice story. I hope maybe someday I have some system programming experience so I can contribute to open-source projects.

Or, like George, be able to test things in an organized fashion, and start by submitting bug reports.

I was able to do my first PXE boot! Now Puppy and Pburn are happily burning my files to DVD! Thank you so much for your help, gcmartin. The other PXE solutions look pretty scary! However, I have some questions for the future, if you don't mind. Also, some errors on the PXE server which may be norma...

Hi! This is my first time trying PXE. The BIOS on my laptop is screwed up and I cannot boot from CD or USB (no floppy, but I'm sure results would be the same). Priority is recovering personal files from "Documents" partition on the hard drive. For PXE, I am following Procedure 1 (Basic) in...