How to do a FULL install of Puppy, to an empty HDD (2010)

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#141 Post by rcrsn51 »

It probably means that the file /boot/vmlinuz is somehow corrupted. You can try manually copying a fresh copy from the Live CD. Or you might want to consider this install procedure.

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#142 Post by coerciblegerm »

rcrsn51 wrote:It probably means that the file /boot/vmlinuz is somehow corrupted. You can try manually copying a fresh copy from the Live CD. Or you might want to consider this install procedure.
Indeed it was corrupted... was showing no data at all in the file for some reason. I replaced 'vmlinuz' with a copy from the cd, and now it gives me another error...

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Unizmaing Linux... done.
Booting the kernel.
Kernel panic - not syncing: No init found.   Try passing init=option to kernel
I'm assuming it wants me to add 'init=(somevalue)' at boot... searched google and these forums for an answer and haven't found anything that works...

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#143 Post by rcrsn51 »

I would guess that there is a mismatch between what you have installed on your hard drive and the contents of your menu.lst file. You might want to consider another install approach.

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#144 Post by coerciblegerm »

rcrsn51 wrote:I would guess that there is a mismatch between what you have installed on your hard drive and the contents of your menu.lst file. You might want to consider another install approach.
Thanks for your continued assistance. I'll try the method you recommended to me earlier. Hopefully it'll do the trick, since the universal installer hasn't been working too well for me.

EDIT:
Thanks a million! Your script worked perfectly! :D

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#145 Post by rcrsn51 »

Glad to help.

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#146 Post by CatDude »

Hi

@ rcrsn51
Cheers mate :wink: :wink:

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Thanks For the HOWTO

#147 Post by hatchiebird »

I was having difficulty getting puppy retro installed on an old Pentium II computer that I had in a closet for years. I finally got it to work after following your instructions. I plan to use the old computer for a music system at a vacation property. Puppy runs great on the old machine. Much faster than Windows 98 ever ran on it. :D

Thanks!

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#148 Post by CatDude »

Hello hatchiebird

Welcome to the kennels.
hatchiebird wrote:I was having difficulty getting puppy retro installed on an old Pentium II computer that I had in a closet for years. I finally got it to work after following your instructions.
Glad that you found it useful, congratulations.

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Full install of Puppy

#149 Post by howard »

Many kudos, CatDude, for your step-by-step instructions. I'm enjoying the result of my Puppy install right now. Your reward for the level of detail you provided, especially with the GParted and GRUB, is my successful install on the very first try.
Best regards,
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#150 Post by CatDude »

Hello howard
howard wrote:Many kudos, CatDude, for your step-by-step instructions. I'm enjoying the result of my Puppy install right now.
Thank you, and congratulations on succeeding with your install of Puppy.
howard wrote: Your reward for the level of detail you provided, especially with the GParted and GRUB, is my successful install on the very first try.
Best regards,
howard
And your reward is receiving my 500th post.

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Stupid question

#151 Post by XmodAlloy »

If I have 3GB RAM, do I really need a swap partition? Currently I do not have one, would it be better if I did?
I am sure this is a REALLY stupid question, but i am rather new to Linux really, but I like it a LOT.

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#152 Post by Randy Pete »

Hey CatDude...

Thanks for the easy instructions on a HD install.

Worked well...

But now, after removing the live CD I do get the GNU GRUB (blue page) that asks: Linux (on/dev/sda1 or Install Grub to Linux partition( on /dev/sda1)

If I hit the first one (Linux...) I get a Error 15: File not found
If I hit the second one (Install...) it does a check, tells me all is OK and has succeeded, ends with DONE, Press any key to continue,...and when I hit any key I get straight back to the blue page requesting the same info again...??

Now I'm really befuddled.......... :roll: :roll:

All works on CD but NOT on my HD (as mentioned above)

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#153 Post by spongedaddy »

CatDude -- Many thanks!! I did not use your guide, but it is definitely a needed doc. I recently installed 4.2.1 to a couple of older machines that are now quite zippy and much happier than they used to be.

I also wrote a step-by-step guide as I was doing it -- hoping for fame and glory on the Puppy forum -- but yours is so much prettier ;)

Randy Pete -- Did you run Gparted?

I failed to partition and format the drive before an install and got this very same error. For some reason GRUB wasn't being written to the MBR.

I rebooted from the CD, ran Gparted, and then performed a full install as described above. All OK after that.

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#154 Post by Randy Pete »

Sponge Daddy..

Hey, we must somehow think alike.
I don't rightly know what I did..........just pressed a hell of a lot of buttons.....re-installed 4.2.1 to a full install, cursed a lot, went grey, smacked the dog, screamed at the wife, threw the kids out, and suddenly discovered that I fixed this thing.

And guess what.............

Yep.....everything works perfectly....(fingers crossed)

Yes I used Gparted and MBR and basically just re-did CatDudes instruction to a Full instead of a Frugal install. Thats when it all clicked into place.

Thanks CatDude, and of course SpongePop, even though I have already solved the problem much the same way you did.

Now...if I could just find my Firefox. pet 2.0.0.7 Icon, then perhaps I use Firefox too.

Pete

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#155 Post by ecomoney »

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=40497

This is firefox 2, and will put an icon in the /root/my-applications/bin folder (the one that opens when you move your mouse to the left of the screen).

Congratulations on your successful install
Puppy Linux's [url=http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=296352#296352]Mission[/url]

Sorry, my server is down atm!

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#156 Post by Randy Pete »

Thanks Ecomoney,

I am equally relieved at my success with my full install.
As you know I had a big problem before with Ecofox, so I will refrain from downloading it again.
Sorry....nothing bad about it, but it was just too big for my little PC

Pete

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#157 Post by bignono1 »

Hi , CatDude,
I am on a full install puppy 4.2 and i want to install another ver. of puppy , but i dont want to screw up , so please advise .
Thank you.

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Full install of Puppy

#158 Post by efiguy »

Hello,

First, the Release of pup421k262516 in ram works great on the Netvista 6280.

Where a problem starts is in a full install to a ext2 1.2G first partition flagged as Boot.

The Universal installer fails to function after image 22 or 23 a small (not sure which) img, , Failing to show Images 24 - 25 - 26 - 27 - 28
and there is no CD or HD activity. I let it sit for an hour -- nothing happened :(

Grub will install to MBR and on reboot nothing to boot from is found,

System can be rebooted then will load into Ram finding the swap partition and starts up from CD

Is this a possible error in release? -- or just more of my in eptitude ;)

Thanks for any ideas

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#159 Post by rjbrewer »

It's running into problem at the point of writing to disk;
seems like a hard drive problem.

Inspiron 700m, Pent.M 1.6Ghz, 1Gb ram.
Msi Wind U100, N270 1.6>2.0Ghz, 1.5Gb ram.
Eeepc 8g 701, 900Mhz, 1Gb ram.
Full installs

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#160 Post by efiguy »

Hi RJ,
It's always possible, but I can mount partition and copy files into and out of just OK, and when it is left mounted the UniINstL detects that it is mounted and then one can un-mount partition and continue with UniINstL
Oh forgot, Grub finds and writes MBR OK

Thanks for lead

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