Puppy boots for an install but gets lost somewhere...

Booting, installing, newbie
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LGSutekh
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#21 Post by LGSutekh »

Oh..CD is good. This very CD was used on my Puppy whippet 3.2GHZ rig....
BRB.......

LGSutekh
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#22 Post by LGSutekh »

Still returning to the prompt with KERNEL PANIC.
Identical to prior two.....

Rebooted 2x with same commands to verify...

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rcrsn51
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#23 Post by rcrsn51 »

Too bad. To summarize:

1. You can't boot the Live CD off your external drive.
2. The GRLDR loader couldn't find your menu.lst file
3. Manually typing the Puppy boot commands caused a kernel panic.

The only other thing I can suggest is to try some other bootable Linux CDs and see if they work. One choice would be the gparted partition editor.

What a way to start the new year!

LGSutekh
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#24 Post by LGSutekh »

oh, well///
Thanks for trying. Appreciate it.
Anyway, I didn't mention, that in troubleshooting this yesterday, I was able to get to the install menu's of VECTOR LINUX. I chose not to continue because I really liked PUPPY'S small size.

If I install VECTOR, would it be easier to then install PUPPY on top of it?

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