Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

Bruce B · Posted: Fri 05 Aug 2005, 03:47 Post_subject:

Pita, I've stayed out of this thread, because I don't know a thing about your computer. I'd like to offer my assistance, however I'd like to know a few things first.

1) How much RAM you have

2) Information about your hard drive

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Bruce B · Posted: Sat 06 Aug 2005, 06:10 Post_subject:

Sorry I didn't get back to you sooner, I couldn't find the thread, did it disappear for a while?

Looks like you have many options about where to put puppy. Put it where you want.

You had booting from CD-ROM problems, and were questioned about burning techniques.

I propose putting Puppy on the hard drive and booting it from hard drive, you can mix it on a partition with another distro because the names don't conflict with an Option 1 install.

I'm going to recommend the following:

when puppy runs the first time it will create the pupxxx user file

what you need to do is figure out how to boot it with lilo. I don't know lilo enough to tell you. I can tell you how to boot it with grub.

if you can't figure out how to boot it with lilo, let me know. I will put together a DOS kit to put on hda1 (c:\)

In order to assemble the kit I will need to know the following:

If you don't know how to mount a data .iso file in Linux I'll show you how, you can make adjustments as requried for location and file name.

suppose the .iso is on hda7 and you want the three files on hda1

# mkdir /mnt/iso
# mount -t iso9660 -o loop /mnt/hda7/nameof.iso /mnt/iso

if you are working on hda7 it would be

# mount -t iso9660 -o loop /nameof.iso /mnt/iso

#cd /mnt/iso
# ls

# cp image.gz usr_cram.fs vmlinuz /mnt/hda1/

(of course, hda1 and hda7 must be mounted) Smile

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I propose putting Puppy on the hard drive and booting it from hard drive, you can mix it on a partition with another distro because the names don't conflict with an Option 1 install.

suppose the .iso is on hda7 and you want the three files on hda1

# mkdir /mnt/iso
# mount -t iso9660 -o loop /mnt/hda7/nameof.iso /mnt/iso

if you are working on hda7 it would be

# mount -t iso9660 -o loop /nameof.iso /mnt/iso

#cd /mnt/iso
# ls

# cp image.gz usr_cram.fs vmlinuz /mnt/hda1/

I followed your instructions and made the adjustments in lilo.conf putting vmlinuz into /boot/vmlinuz-hdd8 and then did lilo.
On booting it stops with kernel panic since initrd can not be found.
Where is the initdrd.gz of puppy? That would have to be put into /boot as initrd-puppy.gz and in lilo.conf a line added under image=/boot/vimlinuz-hdd8, init = /boot/initrd-puppy.gz

Regards

Bruce B · Posted: Sun 07 Aug 2005, 03:19 Post_subject:

Where is the initdrd.gz of puppy? That would have to be put into /boot as initrd-puppy.gz and in lilo.conf a line added under image=/boot/vimlinuz-hdd8, init = /boot/initrd-puppy.gz

Does Lilo allow spaces as it the command you listed:

init = /boot/initrd-puppy.gz

I think I'd keep the orginal name which was image.gz, check syntax carefully, and see if that helps.

Like I wrote earlier, I don't know Lilo, sorry.

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Bancobusto · Joined: 13 Jun 2005 Posts: 168 Location: Vancouver Island

Off topic, but if you read back over the entire length of this thread, and count up the amount of times that people are quoted, one would almost think that we were indeed a profound bunch of people.

Where else can one go and get quoted words of wisdom, day in and day out?

I wish that I could help you with Lilo, I feel as though I should be able to. It was the first Linux bootloader that I had to deal with, I was so happy when I discovered Grub that I've recessed those Lilo mamories. The way it's laid out just seems so much easier to grasp.