Installing Puppy to hd; partitioning questions
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trentster222
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This is not usual, but to shorten your agony:
[EDIT: The posts above were inserted before this one landed the forum - think about multiple time zones
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using fdisk, create then write (save)
part 1 - FAT/Win95 (at least 256 MB to take in pup001 that is created by Puppy at boot time)
part 2 - Linux/83 partition (at least 500 MB)
part 3 - Linux Swap partition (at least 128 MB, or 2X your RAM)
After saving (write), reboot and format the Win95 partition.
Reboot using this time the Puppy CD then install to hard disk (option 2).
Good luck!
PS - This is a fool-proof plan, and Part 1 will be useless once Puppy is installed (but you can use it for data backup). Or you can try installation without part 1 - let's see if Puppy can immediately use the swap partition using the CD.
[EDIT: The posts above were inserted before this one landed the forum - think about multiple time zones
]using fdisk, create then write (save)
part 1 - FAT/Win95 (at least 256 MB to take in pup001 that is created by Puppy at boot time)
part 2 - Linux/83 partition (at least 500 MB)
part 3 - Linux Swap partition (at least 128 MB, or 2X your RAM)
After saving (write), reboot and format the Win95 partition.
Reboot using this time the Puppy CD then install to hard disk (option 2).
Good luck!
PS - This is a fool-proof plan, and Part 1 will be useless once Puppy is installed (but you can use it for data backup). Or you can try installation without part 1 - let's see if Puppy can immediately use the swap partition using the CD.
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