(old)Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

did one for Saluki...haven't uploaded it yet. The installer program worked great! Kudos!

steve_s: I have already created a Saluki installer and am going to upload it soon.

noryb009 wrote:steve_s: I have already created a Saluki installer and am going to upload it soon.

Sweet! I'll let you do it...mine left out zdr_whatever...the driver sfs, so I'd need to redo it. Look forward to the upload!

Saluki 023 has been uploaded, see the link in the first post.

Three-headed Dog 528.005 has been uploaded, see the link in the first post.

Precise Puppy Linux 542 has been uploaded, see the link in the first post.

noryb009 wrote:Saluki 023 has been uploaded, see the link in the first post.

Thanks!

(Slacko) Puppy Linux 540 has been uploaded, see the link in the first post (sorry for the delay for PAE).

This is very cool. I'm using the latest precise version now with the windows installer.

Question: Can I install more than one version of puppy using the installer?
If I already have Precise installed, can I install Slacko too, with a menu option of which OS I want to boot into each time?

Thanks

MNJack762: Yes, you can have multiple puppies installed (I have around 7 right now). The new puppy is added to the second boot menu (with the puppy linux logo).

Not so long ago I finally updated the Lin'N'WinNewB project notes with the method for Windows 7 as used in the Windows Installer.

I recently had some feedback which suggested a failure of Lin'N'Win when trying to install to a Windows 7 PC which has a boot option back to legacy Windows XP.

The Windows Installer creates a real-mode boot option in the bcd of Windows 7 and I am wondering if this clashes with the boot option that Windows creates for Windows XP (even though it is called Windows Legacy OS, in this case).

I cannot really test my thoughts as I do not have Windows XP on my Windows 7 machine.

I'm posting this to find out if somebody has successfully run the Windows Installer on a dual booting Windows 7 / Windows XP machine.

If my thoughts on the clash of boot loaders is correct then my thoughts to a solution are to use the windows XP bootloader as normal to boot Puppy. On bootup of the triple booting machine one would first choose Windows XP and then Linux from the Windows XP bootloader menu.

Any comments?

ICPUG: In your instructions, it assumes that Windows 7 is on the C drive. This might not be true if Windows XP is also installed. That's really the only reason I can think of.

Thanks noryb009. I shall progress that thought with my contact. Unfortunately, I was not given a description of what actually happened when it failed. The contact solved the problem by reinstalling Windows 7 and reapplying Lin'N'Win! I may have lost the ability to find out what happened.

If there is a problem then I presume the Windows Installer might be problematic with this configuration also so it would be nice to hear that a Windows Installer user has successfully triple booted with Windows 7 - Windows XP.

(Slacko) Puppy Linux 550 has been uploaded, see the link in the first post.

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Unetbootin installs a distro to a USB. Puppy Linux Windows Installer installs it to your hard drive.

Unetbootin is better if you are traveling and want to use your own distro on another computer, and this is better if you want it to be installed to your own computer.

Precise Puppy Linux 550 has been uploaded, see the link in the first post.

I installed slacko 5.5 PAE using the most recent exe installer on my windows 7 computer. It works fine and fast till I save my setup before I reboot. If I save my setup in an ext4 520MB file then next boot takes 5 minutes. Therefore, there is some thing wrong with the installer. It works fine if I go back to windows and delete my saved file. I tried on two computers and I have same issue. There was no such issue with slacko 5.4 PAE exe installer.

How can I fix the slow boot and performance issue? Thanks

mtiqbal: Does the startup hang at a certain step?

Also, have you tried to reboot again (3rd, or even 4th time)? I know that puppy does some extra stuff the first time you use the save file.

Boot is always successful. On a computer with a ssd it take more than 2 minutes to boot. On other computer boot takes 4-5 minuter and there is a lot of hd activity that should not be there since sfs file is in ram. No change after a number of boots. If I delete my 4fs file then boot takes less than 30s.