Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

trentster222 · Joined: 29 Jul 2005 Posts: 19 Location: Norman, Oklahoma

I made a linux partition with cfdisk, but when I try the HD install, I get to step 3(Option 2), and it asks me to unmount the CD. But wait...puppy is running on the CD... so I hit the unmount cdrom button, and it fails to unmount, so I am stuck!

trentster222 · Joined: 29 Jul 2005 Posts: 19 Location: Norman, Oklahoma

Well, I'm just going to try again. It's a little hard to get answers at 2 AM!

Lobster · Posted: Fri 29 Jul 2005, 03:26 Post subject:

you should when booting into Puppy to do the install select option 2 (not to effect the HD)

So rebbot your puppy disk and do that - there is also info on the wiki . . . or somewhere - try the sticky above (not mine - Flashes)

Good luck - sorry for quick reply - new Puppy arriving shortly . . . Smile

Bancobusto · Joined: 13 Jun 2005 Posts: 168 Location: Vancouver Island

Good luck!

I must say that in my case, the installer wouldn't recognize my dvd-drive, which is what I booted the CD off of...

During the install, it insisted that there was no cd in the drive, which it needed to copy vmlinuz (and maybe something else)...

I had to drop the cd down to my cd-burner, which according to Puppy is my cdrom... not according to my bios, or my Debian install, but hey, whatever....

Cheers, wish i was more knowledgable to help you Very Happy

trentster222 · Joined: 29 Jul 2005 Posts: 19 Location: Norman, Oklahoma

I am using a floppy that has zapart and fdisk. After going into dos, running zapart, and fdisk(to create partition?) I type in the command prompt "format c:" It takes a couple of minutes to format, and then I restart. My problem earlier, was the there wasn't a large enough ramdisk, and there wasn't a formated partition (I think). Now I will try to run puppy using the live CD, now that I have a partition to put some of the "personal settings" in. But the quetion is, will this thing work? I guess I will know in a couple of minutes. I'm sure that I can get this thing working using trial and error.....right? (This is my 4th time having to format my hard drive tonight!)

trentster222 · Joined: 29 Jul 2005 Posts: 19 Location: Norman, Oklahoma

Ok, i'll press 2! Very Happy

I hope you don't mean 3!

Boy! I love all nighters!

trentster222 · Joined: 29 Jul 2005 Posts: 19 Location: Norman, Oklahoma

...aah, a catch-22 situation...?!?!?! If I "HIDE" the partition, I have to run from the cd, but if its running off the cd, it can;t be unmounted.. AHH! Ok then... I'll read on.... "I am theorising here, have not actually tried any onf this"....!!!!!!!!....It looks like im not going to sleep tonight!

trentster222 · Joined: 29 Jul 2005 Posts: 19 Location: Norman, Oklahoma

Unable to mount a persistent home storage partition on root...Blah blah blah..Pausing...blah blah blah...Computer on fire...blah...Ok then...now its running off the cd again...for sure, because it said it was....so..yh...what do i do now?

Am I stuck having to use the cd rom forever? Maybe I could just copy the cd 2 the hard drive(Although im sure that wont really work)...hmm...I guess I'll have to wait!

Bancobusto · Joined: 13 Jun 2005 Posts: 168 Location: Vancouver Island

you have an existing ext2 partition?

if so go start/setup/install puppy to hard drive

what are the actual errors when following this method?

let me know, i'm listening...... Very Happy

trentster222 · Joined: 29 Jul 2005 Posts: 19 Location: Norman, Oklahoma

Does puppy recognize linux partitions?

*Edit* maybe not..Time to format again!

*edit 2* Ok, Done with Fdisk. I can format it, to make it fat 32, and then I can run puppy, otherwise I get some errors, and all the seetings are run off of the disc. or maybe I just need to format only 500 mb, and then make another partition

trentster222 · Joined: 29 Jul 2005 Posts: 19 Location: Norman, Oklahoma

I think I almost have everything in order, but when I'm done, I will have 2 partitions. One that will have puppy, and the other will be useless. My question is, can I delete the second partition, and make the first one take up all of the space, without having to delete everything on the first partition?

BarryK · Posted: Fri 29 Jul 2005, 09:43 Post subject:

raffy · Joined: 25 May 2005 Posts: 4821 Location: Manila

While typing, I just saw Barry's advice about the RAM, so I have nothing more to say [snip]

also try reading

http://ph-islands.net/pupinstall/

Guest · Guest

Ok then, that makes sense (I guess), seeing as I've tried everything I could think of, using all my windows boot disks. Wow, using windows boot disks to install puppy. It's like one of the oxymorons! I must unlearn what I have learned.

trentster222 · Joined: 29 Jul 2005 Posts: 19 Location: Norman, Oklahoma

whoops! that was me. Anyways, isn't 80mb ram enough? I thought the magic number was 64.

*EDIT* Also, am I going to have to have 2 partitions? no matter what?