Puppy 2 Universal Installer does not work for me

[lostdog]

I downloaded both Puppy 2 Mozilla, and Puppy 2 Opera.

I treid to install form both, and niether of them will get past choosing the partition. When I choose the partition that I want to install to it just disappears, and nothing happens.


wahwahwah

[Ian]

Could you please supply some info about your hard drive,
partitions: size and type

[lostdog]

Hi Ian,

I have a Maxtor 160 gig PSATA.

/dev/hda1 10 gig Puppy
/dev/hda2 swap
/dev/hda5 linux empty.

I zeroed the drive then partitioned and typed with Pdisk, then then tried the install. It couldn't see the partitions. Booted the MaxBlast4 cd and cleared the partitions, then repartitioned.
Booted puppy, started Pdisk cfdisk and typed the partitions.
Tried the install again, and everything went well until reboot. Grub couldn't find puppy even tho it was on the hard drive.

[BarryK]

What is a "PSATA"?
I know of "SATA" and "PATA" only.

Many SATA drives seem to be buggy with Linux, even when they're recognised.

[Sage]

Seems to me to be a shocking waste of resources to use a 160Gb SATA drive, presumably on a modern board, on a compact distro, even if it is a dual booting system. Seems to miss the point altogether? A 500Mb HD install on a 600MHz machine is almost overkill for Puppy if it isn't being run from CD/DVD, USB flash, etc. Surely installation is ideal for really old kit, with 'live' OS booting the optimal choice for (other people's/company) modern tinware?
How many old boards, monitors and HDs can you collect, ld?!

[lostdog]

What is a "PSATA"?

Sory Barry, it's a pata. My fat fingers do strange things sometimes.

Sage, when I bought that hard drive, I was playing with several large distros. I wanted a 100 gig, but the 160 was the same price so I got that instead. And, since linux will only use half of a hard drive, I thought 80 gigs would be enough to install several distros at once to play with. Running the larger distros from cd is just not cool. They are way too slow, and you can't tell whether you want them or not until you can see thier actual speed in action.

[marksouth2000]

...since linux will only use half of a hard drive....

WHAAAAT?????????????????

I thought I'd heard everything, but this one is new to me.