I'm assuming that you run a frugal install (I prefer that).Sweet Baby Jamie wrote:I just chose Tahr because it uses Ubuntu repositories (so lots of software available) and because Ubuntu is somewhat familiar to me, and because it's the newest Puppy.
One word of caution, when attempting a software install from Debian or Ubuntu, it's not a bad idea to back up your save file first...
You can boot your machine to ram:
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puppy pfix=ram
If all goes well, you don't need to do anything. If it completely corrupts your save file, you simply boot to RAM again, and copy your file back over the original (keep in mind that this will wipe out any files you saved internally -- you're essentially restoring to a previous point in time -- you can copy those files out).
The other thing I do, is once I get a system booting the way I want (whether from flash, or HDD), I add the option "fsck" to check the file on every boot (it doesn't take long, unless you crashed -- and then you want to repair the file). This will keep your save file healthy and strong for a long time...
For example, my menu.lst file contains:
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title Puppy Linux Super Lupu 1
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
kernel /Sulu/vmlinuz pmedia=atahd psubdir=Sulu pfix=fsck
initrd /Sulu/initrd.gz