Now in a comment on one of my other questions, a guest wrote:
And since that poster was a guest, I have no way to reply/ask questions.an option 2 install should not be using a pup001 file at all ... i suspect your Puppy is not using that pup001 file either, in which case there is not much point in backing it up
i usually boot Puppy from a poor man's/frugal/option 1 install ... i have never bothered to do a full option 2 install
option 2 installs have some differences and sometimes behave differently ... it is not surprising if some things don't work properly
So is this person right? I don't see how. I boot from the HD, so the pup001 file on hda3 is the only pup001 present - and I see my tweaks to the system being saved. The bootable CD isn't in the 'puter - nothing can be saved there.
If this is any help, when Puppy installed, it made 3 partitions. At first I had hda1 (ext3) / swap / hda3 (ext3). But that made using GRUB a problem, as it wants to see hda2 as an ext2 partition. So I ran the GRUB configure option from the Puppy menu, and doing that modified hda1 to ext2. GRUB works fine now.
But there are some path differences. Guest Too's pup001 is in the /mnt/home path, but my pup001 is in /mnt/hda3. And GT says that hda3 should be visible in my /mnt/home folder - but it's not - /mnt/home is empty in my install - even when hda3 is mounted.
Does any of this matter? Should I do a re-install? And if so, how? I've been through the dox - they are less then optimal for my type of setup, where Puppy is the only OS. Comments?
For the curious, the thread that started this was about the best way to BU Puppy, and it's at: http://www.murga.org/%7Epuppy/viewtopic ... 7515#37515
thanks!
