Having trouble booting puppy to my Compaq 1240 laptop.

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Having trouble booting puppy to my Compaq 1240 laptop.

#1 Post by belteshazzar7 »

Obiviously I am having trouble booting ^_^

Now, I recieved an old laptop to take overseas with me from my father in-law

It is a compaq 1240, 233 mhz proccessor, 64mb of ram, and a 4 gig hardrive, one usb port in the back, a floppy drive (working), and a cd drive (not working), and is running windows XP professional :x

Now I have tried loading the puppylinux to a 128mb usb flash drive and used a boot floppy but it could not find puppy linux. It said I needed to put a file called "pupxusb" on the flash drive so it could recognize it. (I am not sure how to do this. I tried creating a file with notebook but I am not for sure if that is how it is supposed to be done like what is it suppose to save as?)

next I tried putting the files on the c: drive and created the pupxide file with the dos prompt but that did not work.

I really want to get xp off this computer because it runs so slow with it on and cannot do hardly anything useful at all. I liked the looks of puppy linux but if doesn't work is there any other distributions that could?

Your help is much appreciated.
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#2 Post by rarsa »

First:
The contents and format of pupxusb really does not matter, it is mostly a 'flag' meaning that the floppy boot batch process will look for an USB device with a file with that name without even trying to open or look at the contents. So notepad is OK. An empty file is OK, A word file is OK, etc.

Second:

What drive is the USB being recognized as in DOS?
What error are you getting?

Third:
I remember that I tried the floppy boot method and I had to modify the Autoexec.bat. I don't have the floppy with me as I gave it away and I don't use it. I think that the modification was to pass the same parameters to the USB boot proccess as it does for the CD (root=/dev/ram0 initrd=image.gz PFILE=pup001-none-262144)

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#3 Post by belteshazzar7 »

rarsa wrote:First:
The contents and format of pupxusb really does not matter, it is mostly a 'flag' meaning that the floppy boot batch process will look for an USB device with a file with that name without even trying to open or look at the contents. So notepad is OK. An empty file is OK, A word file is OK, etc.

Second:

What drive is the USB being recognized as in DOS?
What error are you getting?

Third:
I remember that I tried the floppy boot method and I had to modify the Autoexec.bat. I don't have the floppy with me as I gave it away and I don't use it. I think that the modification was to pass the same parameters to the USB boot proccess as it does for the CD (root=/dev/ram0 initrd=image.gz PFILE=pup001-none-262144)
First: Well I am good on that file then.

Second: I have to check I believe it is either E: or F:

Third: It did say it was having some type of error with atuoexec.bat Now how do I edit the autoexec.bat. Do I use note pad again for that

Thank you for you reply too.

edit: where is autoexec.bat also?
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#4 Post by Flash »

This may be no help at all, but pakt has just made a new boot floppy he calls WAKEPUP.

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#5 Post by rarsa »

Autoexec.bat is in the floppy.

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#6 Post by Guest »

First . Does the usb port work?
If so can the bios be set to boot from it?
Third, buy a usb floppy drive they are about 30.00 or you might find them for less if you get a deal.
Now, Is XP formatted NTFS or Fat32?
If it is Fat32 you are ok. If it is NTFS you will need to wipe your drive/reformat it to a fatXX format.
The USB floppy will get you to the fdisk from a win98 boot disk for reformating the drive. If all goes well.

Once the drive is formatted pop in your Puppy Linux CD and when the boot splash screen loads press 3 and enter to make Puppy load in to ram only. Once Puppy loads you should be able to install Puppy to the HD and go with it.
Good luck. :D :D

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#7 Post by Freedom »

Anonymous wrote:First . Does the usb port work?
If so can the bios be set to boot from it?
Third, buy a usb floppy drive they are about 30.00 or you might find them for less if you get a deal.
Now, Is XP formatted NTFS or Fat32?
If it is Fat32 you are ok. If it is NTFS you will need to wipe your drive/reformat it to a fatXX format.
The USB floppy will get you to the fdisk from a win98 boot disk for reformating the drive. If all goes well.

Once the drive is formatted pop in your Puppy Linux CD and when the boot splash screen loads press 3 and enter to make Puppy load in to ram only. Once Puppy loads you should be able to install Puppy to the HD and go with it.
Good luck. :D :D
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