I'm planning to install Puppy onto a 128MB USB pen drive. However, my primary HDD is a SATA drive, usually recognized as sda. My USB pen drive is therefore sdb. Now Setup > Install Puppy USB drive Step 2 says:
Duh, as you see I can't just remove sda, that's my HDD. And no, that's not the drive I want to install Puppy onto! I want to install it onto sdb, my pen drive. Now I didn't continue the install, fearing that it'll wipe my HDD, sda. Unreasonable? Any experiences with such a combo?Ok, a USB memory device is plugged in, but is it the one that you
want to install Puppy onto?
if yes, then no problem, just press ENTER key...
...a bit of theory is useful at this point. The first usb drive is
recognised as sda, the second as sdb. However, if you have one
drive plugged in now, pull it out, then plug in the one you want
to install Puppy to, the second will be sdb even though the first
is removed.
BUT, that applies to k2.4. Kernel 2.6 throws a spanner in the works:
a second will be sda after first is removed.
You need to think about this, as what will the situation be when
booting from the USB device? Will it be the only drive plugged in?
...if so, later on in this script when you get the opportunity to
edit syslinux.cfg, make sure the parameter PHOME=sda1