(old)Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

Roy wrote:I am kinda' teetering on the edge here, wondering if this might be adaptable to provide an (any) advantage for netbook owners....

Theoretically, I should be able to boot a disc-burned iso on a full sized machine, use the Universal Installer to install Puppy onto a USB, boot from that USB onto a netbook, and (here is the theoretical part) run the USB Puppy's Universal Installer to accomplish a full install onto a netbook. All this to save the weight / burden of carrying an external CDROM drive around in my hip pocket... but I've never actually wiped everything and re-installed while I've been out on the road, so this remains theoretical to me. I have instead always returned 'home', with my head hung low, and used the external CD to correct my errant ways. (Has anybody actually done a full install to an internal hard drive, using only a normal/frugal USB Puppy as the entire source?)

rcrsn51 wrote:For recyclers who want to image machines quickly, the easiest solution would be a remastered Live CD with the installer folder on the CD but external to the sfs file.

#Create a swap file
dd if=/dev/zero of=/mnt/$HDISK/pupswap.swp bs=1M count=128
mkswap /mnt/$HDISK/pupswap.swp

rcrsn51 wrote:...Here are the steps to do a one-click automated install.

We will assume that you already have a Live CD that works on the target machine and you are familiar with basic Puppy operations. Read here for more information. (If you want to install Puppy in a dual-boot setup with Windows, read here.)

Download and extract the package of installers below. It contains installation scripts that will do an automatic hard drive install of any official Puppy version back to 2.15. There are scripts for both frugal and full configurations. For most machines, a frugal install is the simpler, faster choice. It also gives you the flexibility to add other features to Puppy, like Open Office.

These installers will erase the hard drive, format a new partition, create a swap file, install Puppy and set up the GRUB bootloader. They should work on any machine with standard hardware.

Download and extract the "installers" folder. Copy it to a flash drive or diskette. Or, if you already have the target machine on-line with the Live CD, just download the package directly and store it in /root.

Boot the target computer off the Live CD.
If there is an existing version of Puppy on the hard drive or if you have been storing a pup_save file there, you must boot up by typing the option:

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puppy pfix=ram

Leave the CD in the drive.

Mount the flash drive or diskette, open the "installers" folder and click on the icon labelled "frugal-install". Before installation starts, you will get to answer a YES/NO question.

When the installation is done, finish with a shutdown/reboot and make a pup_save file. Your computer is ready to run Puppy on the next start.

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