I usually run Puppy on an old laptop, from a CD.
To get a bit more power, I want to run Puppy on an old emachines ER1401. These have no built in CD/DVD drive, just lots of USB ports. Some years ago, I installed Easy Peasy Linux onto the hard drive of the ER1401, presumably from a USB stick.
I've tried rebooting with Puppy on a stick, and with my usual Puppy CD in an external CD/DVD drive, but neither are recognised. All I get is a screen message : Out of Range (this message always shows for a while when Easy Peasy is starting up).
I've tried to get into the BIOS by pressing various keys on startup F2, Tab+Delete, ...) but all I get is the same screen message. When I abandon, Easy Peasy starts to load.
Anybody got any ideas how I can overcome this? I've tried DBAN to wipe the hard drive, but obviously have the same problem. Seems I' stuck with a blank screen or Easy Peasy.
Help!!!!!!
emachines ER 1401 - can't install Puppy
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I had luck with an eMachine and booting from USB with UPUP Raring 3.9.9.2
a really nice Puppy. I used PLOP
the boot manager allows booting from machines not equipped in the BIOS to boot from USB.
Make a CD boot PLOP and select boot from USB.
other no-pae retro like Precise 5.7.1 worked well as well.
Good Luck!
a really nice Puppy. I used PLOP
the boot manager allows booting from machines not equipped in the BIOS to boot from USB.
Make a CD boot PLOP and select boot from USB.
other no-pae retro like Precise 5.7.1 worked well as well.
Good Luck!
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- Eastern Counties
- Posts: 145
- Joined: Tue 31 Jan 2006, 18:09
- Location: UK