@John_H
If you haven't done so already, you should set up a Swap File or Swap Partition of 2 X RAM, or approx 400 MB.

Setting up a Swap File:
http://puppylinux.org/wikka/SwapFile

Setting up a Swap Partition:
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 01&start=4

if running the remaster script from the menu, this might help:
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 22&start=7

When I had Puppy 5.2.5 running on the Dell C600 I didn't need acpi=force, everything "just worked". I found it easy to get an Internet connection using a USB wi-fi dongle and these settings (along with everything else) were stable and persistent from one Boot to the next. I had 384 MB of R...

@rayl
the fact that you have to do hard shut-downs means that the Puppy 5.7.0 kernel drivers do not agree with the Pentium 3 hardware. As I said in a previous post, increase the RAM then try Puppy 5.2.5., which worked for me on a Dell C600.

When formatting an SD card or USB stick to FAT32, you also need to set the LBA flag.

The drivers in Puppy 5.7.0 probably don't suit the old Pentium 3 hardware.

@rayl I have previously owned a Dell C600 and I suggest that, if possible, you increase RAM. Windows 2000 and Puppy 5.2.5 ran really well with 384 MB of RAM and a Swap Partition of 768 MB. There is no reason why the Lin 'N' Win approach won't work but I think you'll find that with only 192 MB of RAM...

I would download an earlier version of Puppy and try booting it from the CD. It's possible that the drivers in Precise 5.7.1 do not agree with the old hardware. Different drivers in a different version of Puppy could do the trick. Lucid Puppy 528.6 can be downloaded from here: http://www.murga-linux...

The best thing is probably to start over and re-install testdisk. Once it's re-installed do a backup of the Savefile.

I've created a live cd (usb) . . .

You could boot Puppy off your live CD, copy /usr/lib to a flash drive, then boot back into the Puppy with testdisk on it and copy /usr/lib off the flash drive.

Hi nubc,
Are there BIOS settings to enable SATA as opposed to IDE drives?
Do the drives have jumpers and how are they set?

Hi Semar,
2 GB of RAM is plenty for Puppy. Before you go splitting video files, you might find that the video plays better if you copy these files from the CD to the Hard Drive and then reboot from the CD:
vmlinuz
initrd.gz
lupu_XXXX.sfs

@nic007
but you do take "precautions" . . . . . . like running without a Savefile.

hi nic007, the reason I merged /etc into /tmp/etc was I noticed that, while my running /etc folder was 2.4 MB, the /tmp/etc folder created by the program was 3.5 MB. I was afraid that if I deleted /tmp/etc and copied in my running /etc folder to replace it, I would be losing 1.1 MB of data. As dodgy...

The following describes how I re-mastered a Puppy 5.2.8.6 installation, using the in-built “Re-master Puppy live CD

Hi wimpy, Re-mastering with the in-built "re-master Puppy live CD" program isn't hard once you know where to click "yes" and where to click "no". I've just saved a PC from a dumpster and Lupu 5.11 runs well on it. I intend to do the re-master thing in the next couple of...

For Puppy 5.2 download the latest Firefox and Seamonkey .PET files from here: http://ftp.nluug.nl/ftp/pub/os/Linux/distr/puppylinux/pet_packages-lucid/ For other Puppies use the appropriate repository. Then shut down the browser and use the Puppy Package Manager to uninstall any Firefox and Seamonke...

A loss of Pinboard and Drive icons affected several people, myself included, at around the time wimpy lost the ability to run X. The only common denominator seems to be that we were all running ext2 Savefiles. How hard would it be for a Troll with Linux command-line skills to "nobble" some...

UPDATE I've done another re-master (using the built-in tool at Menu > Setup ) and this time I copied all of /root into the re-master, as well as all of /etc (except for the file .XLOADED). Everything worked out fine and I didn't lose any of my settings. Thanks once again nic007. Next time I do a re...

If you boot up with a different Pupsave, right-click on the 3fs Pupsave and select Properties, down the bottom it will tell what it's filesystem is.