How Puppy works -- the explanation by BK

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cousinFrancis · #1 Post by **cousinFrancis** » Fri 08 Jun 2018, 03:11

Hello all.

As per the title:
"How Puppy works" -- the famous article by BK explaning pupmodes, etc., --
is not available anymore at
http://barryk.org/puppylinux/developmen ... works.html

When I click the link on this wikka page
http://puppylinux.org/wikka/howPuppyWorks
I get an error message.
Same thing if I try via the ask.com or dogpile search engines.

-- Would anyone have a copy or an alternative URL?
Many thanks in advance.

nosystemdthanks · #2 Post by **nosystemdthanks** » Fri 08 Jun 2018, 03:19

https://web.archive.org/web/20171205044 ... works.html

cousinFrancis · #3 Post by **cousinFrancis** » Fri 08 Jun 2018, 04:15

Thank you, kind sir.

BarryK · #4 Post by **BarryK** » Fri 08 Jun 2018, 15:32

My original Puppy Linux site has been archived at bkhome.org/archive/puppylinux:

http://bkhome.org/archive/puppylinux/de ... works.html

http://bkhome.org/archive/puppylinux/

hamoudoudou · #5 Post by **hamoudoudou** » Sun 10 Jun 2018, 11:49

"The very first time that you boot the Puppy live-CD on a computer, a personal storage file named "pup001" is created automatically. This is a problem if it gets created on, say, /dev/hda1, the "C: drive", but you want to install Puppy to that partition. Our workaround was a menu with boot option to not create pup001 and just run in ramdisk."
Perhaps that is what they are searching.

bigpup · #6 Post by **bigpup** » Sun 10 Jun 2018, 19:58

What Puppy are you talking about???
First time you boot with a live CD.
Only thing that gets created is a tmpfs ramdisk.
That is a ramdisk in memory only. Nothing is made on the hard drive.
To put a save on the hard drive, you have to choose that when shutting down!

personal storage file named "pup001 was the old way it worked in Puppy V 1.
With Puppy V 2 onward, everything changed and only a ramdisk temp save is created in Ram.
Nothing is placed on any drive until you choose to do it.

hamoudoudou · #7 Post by **hamoudoudou** » Mon 11 Jun 2018, 02:19

Bigpup, personally, i still use Puppy Linux as it was for, full in RAM and don't Touch Hard disk...
Sure i could use it on my hard disk, but i like Puppy on the fly,
The debate is in French forum francophone, M?dor and Musher0 tell me that is not the way ! Sure i see that many of subscribers use hard disk... But ... i want to keep the puppy original spirit. And i think that people Windowsians downloading ISOs from sourceforge try Puppy Linux my way.

nosystemdthanks · #8 Post by **nosystemdthanks** » Mon 11 Jun 2018, 03:18

hamoudoudou wrote:i want to keep the puppy original spirit.

options are important, and tradition isnt all bad.

i think puppy has always provided many options, in ram and installation.

though i double-checked, i probably never used puppy before 2006. i never used the forum that puppy had prior to the murga forum.

i do like frugal install, i learned that trick years ago from using puppy, and it works with most gnu/linux distros that have a squashfs. you can even debian or devuan from a frugal install. very convenient for trying lots of distros on real hardware.

hamoudoudou · #9 Post by **hamoudoudou** » Mon 11 Jun 2018, 04:25

Frugall install on USB : that is my choice since 2014, no CD to Burn, no Hard drive to touch.. My eggs are in 30 pendrives (buckets).. one can fail..
Hardisk is only one.. and security is much lower ..

nosystemdthanks · #10 Post by **nosystemdthanks** » Mon 11 Jun 2018, 04:50

hamoudoudou wrote:Frugall install on USB : that is my choice since 2014, no CD to Burn, no Hard drive to touch.. My eggs are in 30 pendrives (buckets).. one can fail..

one of my absolute favourite things about free software is that we dont have to rely on hard drives.

"oh my computers broken"

"no, just the hard drive."

ive given away free debian computers (until 2016) with and without hard drives. one time i chose to put a small usb on the side instead, because my then-girlfriends niece was likely to drop the laptop at some point. i figured a usb would be more durable. thats libreoffice draw:

hamoudoudou · #11 Post by **hamoudoudou** » Mon 11 Jun 2018, 06:13

when you go on Holidays, i just need my pendrive in my pocket.. I sleep in host bedroom , and i insert my pendrive in their computer, and they say oooh ! What is that ? My Windows... Don't be Afraid, my Puppy will not touch anything..

i am not a programmer !

nosystemdthanks · #12 Post by **nosystemdthanks** » Mon 11 Jun 2018, 07:00

hamoudoudou wrote:when you go on Holidays, i just need my pendrive in my pocket.. I sleep in host bedroom , and i insert my pendrive in their computer, and they say oooh ! What is that ?

oh theyre very nice. you have to be careful booting other os in peoples machines, they usually arent very nice about it.

i mean imagine if someone booted windows on my computer. (terrible.)

i am not a programmer !

well if you become one, i wont tell anybody.

hamoudoudou · #13 Post by **hamoudoudou** » Wed 13 Jun 2018, 16:05

well if you become one, i wont tell anybody.. More programers ? no need to become one more, we need only helpers and translators.
we don't know is CousinFrancis is satisfied, Process is available translated FR, ES, JP, DE, and even arabic.. PDFs.
These processes are for newbies, explaining how-to use Puppy as he was created for.. c'est l'ABC ... le B.A BA (basics ?)

nosystemdthanks · #14 Post by **nosystemdthanks** » Wed 13 Jun 2018, 16:23

who is this "we" you speak for?

hamoudoudou · #15 Post by **hamoudoudou** » Wed 13 Jun 2018, 16:28

Forum index » House Training » Beginners Help ( Start Here)
CousinFrancis is a newbie

nosystemdthanks · #16 Post by **nosystemdthanks** » Wed 13 Jun 2018, 16:29

hamoudoudou wrote:Forum index » House Training » Beginners Help ( Start Here)

oh, alright.

hamoudoudou · #17 Post by **hamoudoudou** » Wed 13 Jun 2018, 16:35

hamoudoudou wrote:well if you become one, i wont tell anybody.. More programers ? no need to become one more, we need only helpers and translators.
we don't know is CousinFrancis is satisfied, Process is available translated FR, ES, JP, DE, and even arabic.. PDFs.
These processes are for newbies, explaining how-to use Puppy as he was created for.. c'est l'ABC ... le B.A BA (basics ?)

CousinFrancis is a beginner. I hope my info will satisfy
more info for germans here

fishmanluvslinux · #18 Post by **fishmanluvslinux** » Wed 20 Jun 2018, 23:04

I want to thank yall for access to BK's article on "How Puppy Works". I was a Programmer in the 80's but have since just use computers and once in awhile repair them. I love Puppy's portability and speed. Thanks to everyone for their hardwork and dedication.

01101001b · #19 Post by **01101001b** » Tue 02 Jul 2019, 07:21

nosystemdthanks wrote:https://web.archive.org/web/20171205044 ... works.html

BarryK wrote:http://bkhome.org/archive/puppylinux/de ... works.html

I was searching for that page for some time. Thank both of you for those links

(old)Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

(old)Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

How Puppy works -- the explanation by BK

How Puppy works -- the explanation by BK

Perhaps that is what they are searching.

the puppy original spirit

Re: the puppy original spirit

Frugall install on USB

Re: Frugall install on USB

when you go on Holidays,

Re: when you go on Holidays,

we don't know is CousinFrancis is satisfied,

Re: we don't know is CousinFrancis is satisfied,

Beginners

Re: Beginners

Re: we don't know is CousinFrancis is satisfied,

Appreciation