(old)Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

rhymer wrote:... I have done a complete hard drive install which said it was OK, but I seem to have a MAYBE installation that works sometimes, but usually gives me a # prompt halfway through booting and stops there!

...The entire machine belongs to Puppy, (no windoze involved)

...If I leave the boot disk in the drive, it boots fine but this sort of defeats the purpose of installing it.

The # prompt will give me a mess of confusing commands if I type HELP and return... But can I get it to load from that point? Duh

When you get to the # prompt type reboot;
or startx.

Provide information on the computer you are using.

Did your install method look like this?:

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 782#201565

After polling my small scientific community, I can confidently report that Puppy is the hands-down best small Linux distribution bar none, and perhaps the best Linux distribution for general use currently resident on the planet. And yet, the best (Puppy) just keeps getting better, about every two weeks or so.

Hi all I am Interested To Install Linux Puppy Os Distro My sys config Intel 810 P 3 700 MHz 64 MB SD Ram/ 100 MHz Segate 8 GB Hard Drive PS2 Keyboard Mouse & 52x CD Rom

My FAQ

It Can Able to Install from USB Boot [My cd rom sometimes not read]

Or

Install From Windows Xp OS On another HDD Partition Drive

or

By Using qemu apps

Also I have 3 G USB ZTE EVDO AC8700 800M Wireless Card work on this os

Hi all I am Interested To Install Linux Puppy Os Distro My sys config Intel 810 P3 700 MHz 64 MB SD Ram/ 100 MHz Segate 8 GB Hard Drive PS2 Keyboard Mouse & 52x CD Rom

Okay. The first thing to note is that you only have 64MB of RAM. This is workable if you do a full install and set up a swap file, but if the machine needs to constantly use it, then this reduces the life of the hard disk drive.

Puppy can run from USB, yes, but in this case you'll need a swap file, and old BIOSes don't boot from USB anyway, so either way, you'll be creating some new partitions on your hard drive.

May I suggest using Slitaz? It's not as large as Puppy, but still supports Firefox, most ethernet cards, and you should be able to do a fair bit of work on it using AbiWord and Gnumeric (I think OpenOffice would be a bit too large, unless you ran it as a portable app from a USB drive).

Also I have 3 G USB ZTE EVDO AC8700 800M Wireless Card work on this os

You can get EVDOs to run with Linux, yes. How it will fare, 'out of the box' - I don't know.

rjbrewer wrote:

rhymer wrote:... I have done a complete hard drive install which said it was OK, but I seem to have a MAYBE installation that works sometimes, but usually gives me a # prompt halfway through booting and stops there!

...The entire machine belongs to Puppy, (no windoze involved)

...If I leave the boot disk in the drive, it boots fine but this sort of defeats the purpose of installing it.

The # prompt will give me a mess of confusing commands if I type HELP and return... But can I get it to load from that point? Duh

When you get to the # prompt type reboot;
or startx.

Provide information on the computer you are using.

Did your install method look like this?:

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 782#201565

I have the same problem...

Hi

This has happened to me during booting up. I have successfully installed Puppy 4.3.1 and the GRUB. Everything works fine for a while.

Then all of a sudden when I boot up to use the computer, It goes to a command prompt and not the window manager. On two previous occasion, I had to re-install from scratch.
Is there any command i can execute to fire up the window manager ?

BTW, most Linux commands seem to work at the command prompt.

Thanks and regards,

Sanjay

strategic_thinker wrote:

rjbrewer wrote:

rhymer wrote:... I have done a complete hard drive install which said it was OK, but I seem to have a MAYBE installation that works sometimes, but usually gives me a # prompt halfway through booting and stops there!

...The entire machine belongs to Puppy, (no windoze involved)

...If I leave the boot disk in the drive, it boots fine but this sort of defeats the purpose of installing it.

The # prompt will give me a mess of confusing commands if I type HELP and return... But can I get it to load from that point? Duh

When you get to the # prompt type reboot;
or startx.

Provide information on the computer you are using.

Did your install method look like this?:

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 782#201565

I have the same problem...

Hi

This has happened to me during booting up. I have successfully installed Puppy 4.3.1 and the GRUB. Everything works fine for a while.

Then all of a sudden when I boot up to use the computer, It goes to a command prompt and not the window manager. On two previous occasion, I had to re-install from scratch.
Is there any command i can execute to fire up the window manager ?

BTW, most Linux commands seem to work at the command prompt.

Thanks and regards,

Sanjay

I executed..

# startx

followed the prompts and the window manager came up. I then rebooted and all is well.

Bosola wrote:

Hi all I am Interested To Install Linux Puppy Os Distro My sys config Intel 810 P3 700 MHz 64 MB SD Ram/ 100 MHz Segate 8 GB Hard Drive PS2 Keyboard Mouse & 52x CD Rom

Okay. The first thing to note is that you only have 64MB of RAM. This is workable if you do a full install and set up a swap file, but if the machine needs to constantly use it, then this reduces the life of the hard disk drive.

Puppy can run from USB, yes, but in this case you'll need a swap file, and old BIOSes don't boot from USB anyway, so either way, you'll be creating some new partitions on your hard drive.

May I suggest using Slitaz? It's not as large as Puppy, but still supports Firefox, most ethernet cards, and you should be able to do a fair bit of work on it using AbiWord and Gnumeric (I think OpenOffice would be a bit too large, unless you ran it as a portable app from a USB drive).

Also I have 3 G USB ZTE EVDO AC8700 800M Wireless Card work on this os

You can get EVDOs to run with Linux, yes. How it will fare, 'out of the box' - I don't know.

Who Know It About ZTE Installing driver

Who Know It About ZTE Installing driver

I don't mean to presume but... is English your first language? I'm finding it very hard to understand your question.

Bosola wrote:

Who Know It About ZTE Installing driver

I don't mean to presume but... is English your first language? I'm finding it very hard to understand your question.

How to Install ZTE 3 G AC700 800M USB Modem wireless data Card.

I just added screenshots to WikiHow to Install Puppy Linux, feel free to generally improve it.

darrelljon wrote:I just added screenshots to WikiHow to Install Puppy Linux, feel free to generally improve it.

But how to Install ZTE

amsk98 wrote:

darrelljon wrote:I just added screenshots to WikiHow to Install Puppy Linux, feel free to generally improve it.

But how to Install ZTE

What?

Greetings to the Puppy community,
I've got a bit of a problem in my Linux home, and it isn't windows.
My brother's old laptop is running Ubuntu Jaunty, and he doesn't want to move up to Karmic or above. It's getting increasingly difficult to maintain it on this older version, so we've started looking into alternatives.

Puppy caught his attention (and mine, too) but there's a problem - his laptop doesn't have a CD drive. Not even a USB one, because the USB port is.... at best, unreliable.
So having put Ubuntu on there via a netboot install, I'm wondering if it's possible to serve a Puppy boot image the same way, and install from that.
I had a look, and found a page on the Puppy site saying it was possible, but not documented and pointed to a link - which 404'd on me.

So, I come and ask... can anyone solve this little problem and bring Puppy to this old laptop of his?
(If it's of any use, by the way, the laptop is an old Dell Latitude C400)

Thanks to any help, it's appreciated.

Hi everyone. I like Puppy a lot. I've been using it for about a year now, on and off. I have a question that probably doesn't come up very often any more: can I start an install from a floppy? I was messing around with an old Nobilis laptop last night and ended up wiping out the setup info in the BIOS. Now the bios won't recognize the DVD ROM drive. It must have had some strange configuration that I should have looked at before removing the CMOS battery. Hindsight is 20/20, I guess. Anyway, I'd like to make this laptop all Puppy, but I can't boot from the install CD because the BIOS won't can't see the drive. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

edit: nevermind. I figured it out. I used wakepup2 to make a boot floppy.

G'day Eye-iN-TiPi,
I also use WakePup2 to boot from a floppy. This laptop doesn't even have a Hard Drive, so WakePup2 boots up then it hands over to a Flash Drive which "pretends" to be the HDD.

Isn't Puppy great ?

I've just written a step by step 'How to...' entry in my Linux blog on how I successfully did a Frugal installation on a Dell Latitude PIII 500 with 512Mb RAM.

http://mylinuxramblings.wordpress.com/2 ... hard-disk/

Hope you all find it useful.

Can puppy linux be installed within windows like we can install ubuntu?
TIA.

Can puppy linux be installed within windows like we can install ubuntu

If you already have a grub then it is easy to add puppy in frugal install. That is almost the same as wubi install in windows. if you have xp then it is easy. Vista and Win7 is a bit tougher but works too.

Wubi is made for Ubuntu.

but maybe. you could do a Unetbootin frugal install using the unetbootin program. The developer of it named tuxcantfly worked on wubi for a long time but later abandon it and started to do the unetbootin and that works rather similar on a HDD.

I tried it once on my windows Vista machine and it sure worked but sadly on my machine it also locked the program unetbootin to only be used for that purpose so I uninstalled it and used manual frugal install instead using Neogrub which is very close to Grub4DOS way of doing booting.

I guess you have a greater chance to get help if you start a new thread about your personal needs.

One way you could use wubi is to let it install ubuntu and then uninstall it and make use of the grub menu.lst if it leave it behind but that seems a long workaround when you can use unetbootin or neogrub instead.

http://neosmart.net/wiki/display/EBCD/NeoGrub

http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/

Dear All -

I found Puppy Linux when searhing for an OS to install onto an old HP Omnibook -5 Gig hard drive, PIII processor - I love the look and feel of Puppy - I made a CD which works all right, but it will not create a Pup File upon closing, so each time I boot with the CD is like the first time, no data saved - I *had* put Xubuntu on this machine previously (over-writing Windows '98) , but it was completely unwieldy, and eventually it would not boot properly.
I tried the One Click Installer, which downloaded all right and asked me to eject the CD and re-boot - I could not get the CD ejected...Upon shutting the machine down, re-booting and removing the CD at boot, I got an error message about "file 15" and the machine won't boot -
I decided that maybe with Xubuntu messing up, that the hard drive needed to be REALLY re-formatted, so I Zero'd it from the command line into 1 Mb blocks, and have just tried again to use the One Click Installer - Again, unable to eject or unmount the CD, and the entire machine froze up at a message about "updating the PetFile Manager" (i think...) -
After several minutes, I shut it down, removed the CD at boot - the first two attempts to re-boot the machine reverted to a 'crashed' version of the screen with all the programs locked up - 3rd time it DID start to boot, but only went to grub command line and I really don't know any grub commands (despite making a search...
I'd REALLY like to have Puppy installed on this little machine - but I am having real difficulty discerning which bits of advice/information I ought to apply - ALSO, when I have tried to use the PUI and specified the hard drive, it replies with a statement that this process has not been done yet - and nothing more, no other options offered...
Any help installing Puppy on this laptop would be GRATEFULLY received - meanwhile, I will try to RTFM as much as I can...Thanks in advance!

Dear All -
Having RTFM'd the excellent "How To Do A Frugal Puppy Linux Install..." I went back and MORE OR LESS followed all the steps provided, and it looks like Puppy is installed on the hard drive.
HERE ARE THE WAYS MY PROCESS DIFFERED from the stated method:
1) My Puppy version is 4.2, not the newer one specified due to the age of this HP Omnibook...
2) I chose "Full Install" rather than "Frugal" because that is what I preferred, after all...
3) I could not find any " /tmp/NEWGRUBTEXT " files anywhere on the system, either through Edit or through the Puppy Drive Mounter, so in the end I just trusted that actually editing the command lines of the Grub sequence might not be necessary in this earlier version of Puppy...(so far so good...)
4) The LIVE CD would not eject when re-booting (eeek!), but responded when I pressed the button on the drive as the system "hung" on a line of PINK text stating "Boot will be faster next time!" - The machine continued to boot from what must be the hard drive and I'm now connected to the net (but typing this from a more reliable machine beside my newly rescued Puppy from the Old Laptop 'Pound') so I'm crossing my fingers and it looks like all is well.....I've amazed myself ! THANKS TO THE LONDON MAN WHOSE LINUX RAMBLINGS ARE COGENT AND SO HELPFUL! ! ! ! ! ! !