Attempting the "Install to Hardrive" option (FatDog64), has yeilded an undicipherable "Syslinux is unable to find..." message at boot. Some "badunk-adunk" has occurred on me MBR. The partition table, thank god, is fine.
I bet I've downloaded 16 Distro's trying to find "Just Plain Linux"... Apparently mainstream linux is now also 'broken by default' ... Either systemd'd or running the "Ruptured Rat" -- or whatever that bandaged mousy thing is... (don't even ask -- no I run GTK3, and yes, I insist on logging in as root unless something suspicious like "chr0me wont get you home" requires "userland")
No, I don't (WONT -- unless it's sandboxed in a VM) have windows on here. Yes, I've been running linux since Suse 6.5.... And that's the problem.
Old biddies DON'T LIKE newfangled stuff.
So, finally I tried "FatDog64" ... It's PERFECT! Everything I need, nothing that annoys me (old biddies are EASILY annoyed) except...
Just cant get it to install to the hard drive. The "Install to Hard Drive" only created the unhappy boot message. no SYSTEM went to the hard drive. ie, no files. Everything's still living on the thumb drive (happily, but... )
Searched the forum for that "breed" of puppy, and the help file, and I've been stumped about a week...
My specs
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Architecture: x86_64
CPU op-mode(s): 32-bit, 64-bit
Byte Order: Little Endian
CPU(s): 2
On-line CPU(s) list: 0,1
Thread(s) per core: 1
Core(s) per socket: 2
Socket(s): 1
NUMA node(s): 1
Vendor ID: GenuineIntel
CPU family: 6
Model: 23
Model name: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E8400 @ 3.00GHz
Stepping: 10
CPU MHz: 2992.482
BogoMIPS: 5987.33
Virtualization: VT-x
L1d cache: 32K
L1i cache: 32K
L2 cache: 6144K
NUMA node0 CPU(s): 0,1
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/dev/loop0: TYPE="squashfs"
/dev/loop1: TYPE="squashfs"
/dev/sda1: UUID="e4781e04-5c13-4809-9a0c-f9ad1184f9ce" TYPE="ext4" PARTUUID="7bb45276-01"
/dev/sda2: LABEL="7" UUID="2C62650D14767D83" TYPE="ntfs" PARTUUID="7bb45276-02"
/dev/sda3: LABEL="STOR" UUID="09C9766250356EBE" TYPE="ntfs" PARTUUID="7bb45276-03"
/dev/sda4: UUID="e645b130-60dc-497b-ace3-33922b3237af" TYPE="swap" PARTUUID="7bb45276-04"
/dev/sdb1: LABEL="xxx4" UUID="0ad03608-06e8-49e5-b402-2a091b26d6a1" TYPE="ext4" PARTUUID="435e5337-01"
/dev/sdb2: LABEL="F321" UUID="9BA1-A2B3" TYPE="vfat" PARTUUID="435e5337-02"
/dev/sdb3: LABEL="WnRz" UUID="B65A41515A411013" TYPE="ntfs" PARTUUID="435e5337-03"
/dev/sdc1: UUID="2018-01-12-00-13-06-66" LABEL="FATDOG_LIVE" TYPE="iso9660" PTUUID="05395d21" PTTYPE="dos" PARTUUID="05395d21-01"
/dev/sdc2: SEC_TYPE="msdos" LABEL="FATDOG_LIVE" UUID="A15A-ABAE" TYPE="vfat" PARTUUID="05395d21-02"
/dev/sr1: UUID="2008-05-06-12-26-42-" LABEL="U3 System" TYPE="iso9660"
/dev/sdd1: LABEL="KATY" UUID="41DEA54553D03DE6" TYPE="ntfs" PARTUUID="4ca144c6-01"
/dev/sde1: LABEL="N00" UUID="7ca4301f-757b-4a6b-8cf8-207188b651a6" TYPE="ext4" PARTUUID="c3072e18-01"
Firstly, I need the bootloader to work (WITHOUT killing off the other partitions on /dev/sda). All my partitions are fine no data lost.
I'd like to install (FULLY, not frugal) the FatDog64 on /dev/sda1 -- bare naked it is, ext4 format, don't need to encrypt anything...
Also, I have been unable to discern whether I can use the ample swap partition. There is an option to creat a swap FILE... But it refuses to accept the _partition_ for that purpose. Mkswap and swapon no stranger to me, but not sure if this kinda puppy likes that flavor?
I *DO* understand the issue is that puppy is "structured" differently than any other Linux... however, I'm pretty sure a full install would move the filesystem ONTO the destination drive?
Please move this post where it belongs...
THANKS IN ADVANCE
slowride