Problems running Puppy2 w/64 Mb Ram, 8 Gb hd

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Hi everybody,

I'm running Puppy2 live on a 64 Mb ram and now it works !! (Puppy1 failed). It is also fast enough. Now, I'm trying to dedicate the entire 8 gb to puppy2 but I got following problems

1. Booting from live cd stop and not load JWM. I have to do it manually with Startx
2. If I start JWM it doesn't see my serial mouse. From shell prompt I have to launch XorgWizard to solve.
3. The installer gui was OK, but GRUB cannot be installed on /dev/hda because it's mounted for the minimal ram 64Mb I have on this pc. Consider that floppy doesn't boot, so is there a possibile to install GRUB on /dev/hda1 ?

Thanks
Antonio

[BarryK]

Hi everybody,

I'm running Puppy2 live on a 64 Mb ram and now it works !! (Puppy1 failed). It is also fast enough. Now, I'm trying to dedicate the entire 8 gb to puppy2 but I got following problems

1. Booting from live cd stop and not load JWM. I have to do it manually with Startx
2. If I start JWM it doesn't see my serial mouse. From shell prompt I have to launch XorgWizard to solve.
3. The installer gui was OK, but GRUB cannot be installed on /dev/hda because it's mounted for the minimal ram 64Mb I have on this pc. Consider that floppy doesn't boot, so is there a possibile to install GRUB on /dev/hda1 ?

Thanks
Antonio

We are working on the mouse problem.

I don't quite understand number 3.
If you boot the live-cd, it will run in ram, but should have left pup_003.sfs
on the CD and mounted it from there. So, running the installer and installing
GRUB to hda1 should not be a problem. There would be a problem if you
had previously saved a session to hda1, then it has the pup_save.3fs file which
gets mounted at next boot.
...in that case. you need to get rid of pup_save.3fs somehow (not while its
in use though!).
Note, in future will probably have a boot menu, with option to ignore
existing pup_save.3fs file and just run in ram.

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I don't quite understand number 3.
If you boot the live-cd, it will run in ram, but should have left pup_003.sfs
on the CD and mounted it from there. So, running the installer and installing
GRUB to hda1 should not be a problem. There would be a problem if you
had previously saved a session to hda1, then it has the pup_save.3fs file which
gets mounted at next boot.
...in that case. you need to get rid of pup_save.3fs somehow (not while its
in use though!).
Note, in future will probably have a boot menu, with option to ignore
existing pup_save.3fs file and just run in ram.

Sure Barry, it is as you say. Now I made a good installation with GRUB on the same pc.

Thanks.
Antonio