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installing slacko on USB
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Project_Paatt
Joined: 10 Jul 2012 Posts: 1 |
i have an 8gb flash drive. i planned to split it into two partitions with a 2gb in front (ext2 so other OSes cant touch it) for puppy with the rest for storage. so i used unetbootin to put a live version on another flashdrive so i could install without wasting a disc. ANYWAYS, that all worked, installed fine and everything. Slacko5.3.3, ext2, 2gb Ive noticed a few times that on my installed puppy, every once in a while it doesn't read sda as the flashdrive but as my installed HDD on the computer and sometimes switches back (not really a problem... just curious if it could cause a problem) the bad part is it doesn't shutdown correctly. when i tell it to shutdown, X shuts off and im left on a console, when i type in "poweroff" it saves session, and goes back to console again. However, reboot seems to work. All this only happens when i save session, if i choose to not save session during the first shutdown, it shuts down perfectly every time (as long as i continue to choose to not save session) |
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dk60902
 Joined: 26 Sep 2010 Posts: 233 Location: In front of my computer |
Boot up Slacko with your your USB and then use the puppy utilities to create an install on your 8 GB USB drive. I do a manual install rather than unetbootin. I don't have any experience with unetbootin for Puppy. Go to the puppylinuxworld channel on youtube and there is a tutorial to install Slacko onto a USB. I think there is a series on the channel, "let's use Slacko". Plug in the 8 gb drive after booting Slacko. Open Gparted. Partition into 2GB (ext2 if that's what you want)) and the remaining 6 GB you can format FAT32. On Gparted, right click the first partition, select manage flags and then tick the boot box. Copy 3 puppy files into your 1st partition (initrd.gz, vmlinuz, and the Slacko sfs file). Then run Grub4Dos. |
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bigpup
 Joined: 11 Oct 2009 Posts: 12977 Location: S.C. USA |
On a computer with one internal hard drive : sda - should always identify the internal hard drive. sdb - should always identify the USB external flash drive. _________________ The things they do not tell you, are usually the clue to solving the problem. When I was a kid I wanted to be older.... This is not what I expected 
YaPI(any iso installer) |
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Sylvander
Joined: 15 Dec 2008 Posts: 4422 Location: West Lothian, Scotland, UK |
A handy video on the topic of... How To Do A USB Install Of Puppy Linux Slacko 5.3.2.4 FAST! I assume the method would be the same on all Puppies. I did this on Slacko-5.3.3.1-SCSI. The above is by Icyos at Youtube. Here are all of his Slacko videos if you are interested. |
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rcrsn51
 Joined: 05 Sep 2006 Posts: 12801 Location: Stratford, Ontario |
If the computer has an internal card reader, or is attached to a printer with a card reader, the flash drive might move to a different device. That's why it's a good idea to boot the flash drive using its UUID. Grub4dos sets this up. |
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bigpup
Joined: 11 Oct 2009 Posts: 12977 Location: S.C. USA |
Good point rcrsn51 
Always need to consider hardware setup of computer. Always hard to advise without knowing exact setup of computer!
_________________ The things they do not tell you, are usually the clue to solving the problem. When I was a kid I wanted to be older.... This is not what I expected
YaPI(any iso installer) |
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rcrsn51
Joined: 05 Sep 2006 Posts: 12801 Location: Stratford, Ontario |
I could never figure out why my flash drive became sdc1 whenever I had a test Canon printer plugged in. I finally discovered that it had a card reader that I never knew about! |
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bigpup
Joined: 11 Oct 2009 Posts: 12977 Location: S.C. USA |
A wise man said. You must be smarter than the equipment you are operating. 
Project_Paatt, About the shutdown issues. Long shot, but you could try this: Try boot option acpi=off or acpi=force _________________ The things they do not tell you, are usually the clue to solving the problem. When I was a kid I wanted to be older.... This is not what I expected
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