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by parcdulas
Sun 02 Dec 2012, 22:46
Forum: Beginners Help ( Start Here)
Topic: How do I find 'menu.lst'?
Replies: 7
Views: 2450

Well, things are working but very very slowly! To load up the first sign of Sea Monkey browser took 4 minutes with another 4 until it was sort of functional. (The hard disk being accessed all of the time) I suppose that is because there is only 64MB of Ram so the swap file is providing all the extra...
by parcdulas
Sun 02 Dec 2012, 22:07
Forum: Beginners Help ( Start Here)
Topic: How do I find 'menu.lst'?
Replies: 7
Views: 2450

Thanks, I tried one more time and for some reason it all seemed to work this time! I now have a working Puppy 541 on my hard drive. I now have to try out the variuos functions (Browser etc) to see if all is OK. Is it worth trying with the new 5.4.2 or should I leave it alone? If I have any more trou...
by parcdulas
Sun 02 Dec 2012, 20:15
Forum: Beginners Help ( Start Here)
Topic: How do I find 'menu.lst'?
Replies: 7
Views: 2450

Thanks, Ran 'Grub4DOS config' and it has written a Grub loader that offers: Windows Advanced Menu As there is no windows on the hard disk I picked 'Advanced menu' and one of the options this gave was something like ' unknown executable' so it would appear that my attempts to install have failed to w...
by parcdulas
Sun 02 Dec 2012, 00:08
Forum: Beginners Help ( Start Here)
Topic: How do I find 'menu.lst'?
Replies: 7
Views: 2450

I exited the file (New Grub Text) and a message came up to say ther was no need to add the text. I rebooted the computer to make sure that it could now boot from the hard disk and got the following message: GRUB loading stage1.5. GRUB loading please wait Error 15 and the laptop hung up so something ...
by parcdulas
Sat 01 Dec 2012, 23:37
Forum: Beginners Help ( Start Here)
Topic: How do I find 'menu.lst'?
Replies: 7
Views: 2450

How do I find 'menu.lst'?

I have done a full install of puppy 5.4.1 to the hard disk in an ancient laptop (Toshiba satellite pro 4200) and 'New Grub Text' has opened with some text to insert in 'menu.lst' but I don't know how to find menu.lst. Please help.