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Ian
Official Dog Handler
Joined: 04 May 2005
Posts: 1237
Location: Queensland
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To format your 1st partition on the hard drive boot up a live Puppy CD and make sure that it does not write pup001 file to hda1then open rxvt and type in the following:
mke2fs /dev/hda1
and this will create an ext2 filesystem on your 1st partition.
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Marcel
Joined: 15 May 2005
Posts: 110
Location: Sydney, Australia
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Ok Guys and Gals: here is what I have now done:
I booted Puppy from the CD, and used cfdisk to delete hda2, and made hda1 bootable, and created an extended partiton (I think) - dunno why, just felt like it! Well, thought I'd give it a try..
Then I re-installed to hda1, and chose to use Grub, which I configured with all the defaults, except I put it in the MBR
It all works fine, thank goodness!
Only problem now is that Puppy recognises my touchpad but not my ps/2 mouse.
I'm nervous about reconfiguring the mouse: when I tried it in Mepis the whole thing froze: no touchpad, no mouse.
Has anyone got both pad and mouse to work? How?.
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Marcel
Joined: 15 May 2005
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Location: Sydney, Australia
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| Posted: Fri 29 Jul 2005, 00:46 Post subject:
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Sorry - I meant 'my serial mouse'
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flamesage
Joined: 01 Jul 2005
Posts: 214
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# GRUB configuration file '/boot/grub/menu.lst'.
# generated by 'grubconfig'. Thu Jul 28 22:22:45 2005
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# Start GRUB global section
#timeout 30
color light-gray/blue black/light-gray
# End GRUB global section
# Linux bootable partition config begins
title Puppy Linux (on /dev/hda1)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda1 ro vga=normal
# Linux bootable partition config ends
title Install GRUB to floppy disk (on /dev/fd0)
pause Insert a formatted floppy disk and press enter.
root (hd0,0)
setup (fd0)
pause Press enter to continue.
title Install GRUB to Linux partition (on /dev/hda1)
root (hd0,0)
setup (hd0,0)
pause Press enter to continue.
title - For help press 'c', then type: 'help'
root (hd0)
title - For usage examples, type: 'cat /boot/grub/usage.txt'
root (hd0)
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So in my example, how would I have it automaticly boot up Puppy Linux (on hda1) after 5 seconds?
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Bancobusto
Joined: 13 Jun 2005
Posts: 168
Location: Vancouver Island
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uncomment the timeout option, and set it to 5 seconds (erase the # symbol).
it worked for me!
hey, for fun change vga=normal to vga=773
you get a cool penguin and smaller text during yer boot-up....
beware that apparently this takes a small amount of time longer that vga=normal... but it looks a lot nicer
and it's easier to read all the funky messages that Puppy displays during boot up...
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Flash
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Joined: 04 May 2005
Posts: 9840
Location: Arizona USA
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| Posted: Fri 29 Jul 2005, 01:25 Post subject:
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Marcel, could you start a new thread re your mouse/touchpad problem, so I can put 'solved' on this one? Thanks. 
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flamesage
Joined: 01 Jul 2005
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| Posted: Fri 29 Jul 2005, 01:34 Post subject:
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all vga773 does is give me a big black screen........
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Bancobusto
Joined: 13 Jun 2005
Posts: 168
Location: Vancouver Island
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ooops... I guess that that command only works if yer monitor supports 1024x728 rez?
Did you put the = sign in there?
Sorry if that didn't work for you, dude....
It works for me and i find it enjoyable, so I thought I'd share it...
maybe stick to vga=normal to be safe
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Marcel
Joined: 15 May 2005
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Location: Sydney, Australia
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Sorry Flash! I've started the new thread, as requested!
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