Double frugal install

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Hi all,

right now I'm using a couple of cd to boot puppy on my notebook, first one is Puppy 210 and second one Puppy 210 pro. I have two personal storage file and puppy let me know how to choose. Now, I would like to convert this kind of boot in a frugal install. I edited grub menu.lst and I can now boot puppy 210 from hd with no problem with following rows on grub:

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title PuppyLinux 2.10
    root (hd0,1)
    kernel /puppy210/vmlinuz root=/dev/ram0 ramdisk_size=100000 init=/etc/init
    initrd (hd0,1)/puppy210/initrd.gz

I used /puppy210 because I already have a /boot with Suse Linux installed on.

Now, I would like to boot from hd also Puppy 210 Pro and I would like also not to choice each boot which file to load from the simple menu puppy ask me but Puppy210 would have to load its storage file and Puppy210Pro would have to do the same thing. Is it possible ? How have I to edit grub and which puppy options have I to use ?

Thanks.

[JB4x4]

I run 2 Puppys at a time (sometimes three) and use grub to manage them. This only worked because I have each install on its own partition. Here is a sample of my "menu.lst" file.

title Muppy-Linux 005 (on /dev/hda3)
hide (hd0,5)
unhide (hd0,2)
root (hd0,2)
kernel /vmlinuz root=/dev/ram0
initrd /initrd.gz

title Puppy Linux 2.12 (on /dev/hda6)
hide (hd0,2)
unhide (hd0,5)
root (hd0,5)
kernel /vmlinuz root=/dev/ram0
initrd /initrd.gz

Note the use of "hide" and "unhide", this keeps each Puppy from automatically finding the wrong savefile and messing something up.

[WhoDo]

Note the use of "hide" and "unhide", this keeps each Puppy from automatically finding the wrong savefile and messing something up.

I knew if I hung in there long enough someone would tell me how to solve the multiple Puppy problem! Thank you, JB4x4.

You have given me the missing piece of the puzzle. I can now attack a new frugal install with renewed vigour, knowing I can hide my other Puppy partitions through GRUB.

Cheers

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Thank you for your answer. So there is no chance to have a puppy boot parameter personal storage file to load with ?

[kleung21]

My understanding was that there WAS a boot parameter that specified where the save file was to be stored; however, as of Puppy2, I think that was taken out to simplify things.

HOWEVER, I think it might be an idea to put it back in

Thanks,

Kevin