How do I find 'menu.lst'?
How do I find 'menu.lst'?
I have done a full install of puppy 5.4.1 to the hard disk in an ancient laptop (Toshiba satellite pro 4200) and 'New Grub Text' has opened with some text to insert in 'menu.lst' but I don't know how to find menu.lst. Please help.
I exited the file (New Grub Text) and a message came up to say ther was no need to add the text.
I rebooted the computer to make sure that it could now boot from the hard disk and got the following message:
and the laptop hung up so something is wrong in the way I did the install.
I rebooted the computer to make sure that it could now boot from the hard disk and got the following message:
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GRUB loading stage1.5.
GRUB loading please wait
Error 15
Thanks,
Ran 'Grub4DOS config' and it has written a Grub loader that offers:
Windows
Advanced Menu
As there is no windows on the hard disk I picked 'Advanced menu' and one of the options this gave was something like ' unknown executable' so it would appear that my attempts to install have failed to write PUPPY properly.. As clicking 'BROWSE' on the desktop causes the CD drive to run virtually continuously does this mean that Puppy 5.4.1 will not run on my hardware or that the ISO on the CD is corrupt?
Ran 'Grub4DOS config' and it has written a Grub loader that offers:
Windows
Advanced Menu
As there is no windows on the hard disk I picked 'Advanced menu' and one of the options this gave was something like ' unknown executable' so it would appear that my attempts to install have failed to write PUPPY properly.. As clicking 'BROWSE' on the desktop causes the CD drive to run virtually continuously does this mean that Puppy 5.4.1 will not run on my hardware or that the ISO on the CD is corrupt?
Thanks,
I tried one more time and for some reason it all seemed to work this time!
I now have a working Puppy 541 on my hard drive. I now have to try out the variuos functions (Browser etc) to see if all is OK. Is it worth trying with the new 5.4.2 or should I leave it alone?
If I have any more trouble I'll definitely down load your script file.
Thanks again!
I tried one more time and for some reason it all seemed to work this time!
I now have a working Puppy 541 on my hard drive. I now have to try out the variuos functions (Browser etc) to see if all is OK. Is it worth trying with the new 5.4.2 or should I leave it alone?
If I have any more trouble I'll definitely down load your script file.
Thanks again!
Well, things are working but very very slowly! To load up the first sign of Sea Monkey browser took 4 minutes with another 4 until it was sort of functional. (The hard disk being accessed all of the time) I suppose that is because there is only 64MB of Ram so the swap file is providing all the extra needed. The laptop is so old that it can only have an extra 48 MB RAM I believe and that at a silly price.
It seems I need an OS that is not so hungry for RAM
It seems I need an OS that is not so hungry for RAM
Five years ago, 64 MB was considered low-memory for Puppy. You should look at some old versions from here.parcdulas wrote: I suppose that is because there is only 64MB of Ram so the swap file is providing all the extra needed. ...It seems I need an OS that is not so hungry for RAM