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jjprzy · Joined: 14 Jul 2010 Posts: 3

Oh yeah, one more item. Puppy can mount sda1 and see all the Windows files just fine.

willem1940NLD · Posted: Fri 16 Jul 2010, 13:39 Post subject:

How ... sda & sdb on 1 HD together?

rcrsn51

jjprzy · Joined: 14 Jul 2010 Posts: 3

rcrsn51,

That took care of it! Problem solved! Thank you so very much! Very Happy

shinobar · Joined: 28 May 2009 Posts: 2249 Location: Japan

Think this article should be updated because the recent Puppy has Grub4Dos built in.
Or, Puppy-4.x and recent can install grub4dos-0.4.4.v1.5.3.pet.
See the next article:
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=61348

shinobar · Joined: 28 May 2009 Posts: 2249 Location: Japan

You may feel fear with replacing the MBR with the grub4dosconfig.
But it is more safe than shrinking the existing Windows partition.
You can boot up from CD, and easily re-install MBR.
If you like to recover the MBR of windows, you can use Windows Installer CD.

Only exception is for the PC's which has special MBR made by the manufacturer.
I have never seen such PC's but hear some PC's without CD drive and the Windows recovery system is on the HDD.
In this case from the beginning, it cannot boot up the Puppy Live CD.

For the last case we developed the installer for the Windows(95 to 7), Lucid-Puppy-Quickset-edition-511-Installer.exe.
It need not CD and does not replace the existing MBR.
See the topic:
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=61404

kevroxldn · Joined: 20 Apr 2011 Posts: 11

all was going well up this point! unzipped the file, put it on USB, put it in, clicked on the folder then clicked the "install" file and got the error message above??
tried rebooting without the cd and got the message Missing operating system. Completely lost now as to what i should do next,
please help
thanx

kevroxldn · Joined: 20 Apr 2011 Posts: 11

i was unzipping with winblows, tried it with puppy, no probs! strike another 1 up for linux!!

rcrsn51 · Posted: Wed 20 Apr 2011, 09:03 Post subject:

That's good news. I don't know what your Windows extraction tool would have done to mess things up. I checked it with my own Windows third-party extractor and it worked correctly.

monarch4 · Joined: 14 Nov 2010 Posts: 17 Location: Pennsylvania USA

I got to Step 1 and when I ran gparted, xp's ntfs partition had a yellow triangle on it and I cannot partition. What does that mean? I want to do a frugal install of puppy lucid 5.2.8 along with xp on a HP desktop with 2 gb. of ram.

LaneLester · Joined: 14 Sep 2008 Posts: 209 Location: Rural Georgia, USA

I already had a Linux partition, so I started at step 2, as advised by the OP.

The process went well, except that later on , Windows changed the partition flags, and grub was no longer shown at boot.

I booted the LiveCD and used the grub utility to install grub in the MBR.

Now all is well again.

Lane

rcrsn51 · Posted: Wed 04 Jul 2012, 17:43 Post subject:

That's odd. I have never seen Windows change the partition boot flags on its own. But it will happen if the GRUB entry for Windows contains the line "makeactive".

However, the one-click installer doesn't use "makeactive". Have a look at your menu.lst file.