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trentster222

Joined: 29 Jul 2005 Posts: 19 Location: Norman, Oklahoma
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Posted: Fri 29 Jul 2005, 02:00 Post subject:
Installing Puppy to hd; partitioning questions |
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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!
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trentster222

Joined: 29 Jul 2005 Posts: 19 Location: Norman, Oklahoma
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Posted: Fri 29 Jul 2005, 03:22 Post subject:
Hmmm... |
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Well, I'm just going to try again. It's a little hard to get answers at 2 AM!
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Lobster
Official Crustacean

Joined: 04 May 2005 Posts: 15238 Location: Paradox Realm
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Posted: Fri 29 Jul 2005, 03:26 Post subject:
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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 . . .
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Bancobusto

Joined: 13 Jun 2005 Posts: 168 Location: Vancouver Island
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Posted: Fri 29 Jul 2005, 03:26 Post subject:
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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
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trentster222

Joined: 29 Jul 2005 Posts: 19 Location: Norman, Oklahoma
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Posted: Fri 29 Jul 2005, 03:31 Post subject:
Ok then! |
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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!)
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trentster222

Joined: 29 Jul 2005 Posts: 19 Location: Norman, Oklahoma
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Posted: Fri 29 Jul 2005, 03:33 Post subject:
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Ok, i'll press 2!
I hope you don't mean 3!
Boy! I love all nighters!
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trentster222

Joined: 29 Jul 2005 Posts: 19 Location: Norman, Oklahoma
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Posted: Fri 29 Jul 2005, 03:43 Post subject:
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...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!
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trentster222

Joined: 29 Jul 2005 Posts: 19 Location: Norman, Oklahoma
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Posted: Fri 29 Jul 2005, 03:49 Post subject:
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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!
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Bancobusto

Joined: 13 Jun 2005 Posts: 168 Location: Vancouver Island
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Posted: Fri 29 Jul 2005, 03:54 Post subject:
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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......
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trentster222

Joined: 29 Jul 2005 Posts: 19 Location: Norman, Oklahoma
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Posted: Fri 29 Jul 2005, 04:23 Post subject:
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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
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trentster222

Joined: 29 Jul 2005 Posts: 19 Location: Norman, Oklahoma
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Posted: Fri 29 Jul 2005, 04:34 Post subject:
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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?
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BarryK
Puppy Master

Joined: 09 May 2005 Posts: 8526 Location: Perth, Western Australia
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Posted: Fri 29 Jul 2005, 09:43 Post subject:
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trentster222 wrote: | 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! |
I presume that the PC doesn't have much RAM, so Puppy was unable to copy usr_cram.fs off the CD, so the CD remained in use.
If that's the case, create a Linux swap partition on the hard drive to increase the effective RAM size.
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raffy
Joined: 25 May 2005 Posts: 4839 Location: Manila
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Posted: Fri 29 Jul 2005, 10:30 Post subject:
Try this |
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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/
_________________ Puppy user since Oct 2004. Want FreeOffice? Get the sfs (English only).
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Guest
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Posted: Fri 29 Jul 2005, 11:54 Post subject:
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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.
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trentster222

Joined: 29 Jul 2005 Posts: 19 Location: Norman, Oklahoma
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Posted: Fri 29 Jul 2005, 11:58 Post subject:
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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?
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