I have a touchscreen terminal currently running Windows 98, and would like to run puppy from it. The hdd recently stopped being recognised, i suspect it could well be the controller not just the drive itself.
There is no floppy drive, no cd rom, and no option to boot from a flash drive in the bios, there is though usb ports. Assuming it is a controller failure can anyone suggest a way to boot the machine ?. All ideas gratefully received.
How to boot puppy on touchscreen terminal?
There are several things that might work. How did Windows get installed on the hard drive in the first place? Perhaps you could remove the hard drive, put it in a computer that does have a CD ROM, install Puppy, then put the hard drive back. This has been reported to work (if you do it right 
) You could use a Windows-based program such as isobuster to open up the iso and then put the files on your hard drive, then figure out how to configure your boot loader. There is a recent post in the Howto forum telling how to configure Windows' bootloader to boot Puppy..
) You could use a Windows-based program such as isobuster to open up the iso and then put the files on your hard drive, then figure out how to configure your boot loader. There is a recent post in the Howto forum telling how to configure Windows' bootloader to boot Puppy..Installing windows was easy, just removed the hdd from the machine and fitted to something with a cdrom. BUT !!!, the problem is, the DISK or controler is faulty, so i need a different way to boot puppy.
I could fit a new drive, but this is a machine that my business relies upon (it runs an epos system i wrote in flash), and i need a backup in case the fault returns.
I could fit a new drive, but this is a machine that my business relies upon (it runs an epos system i wrote in flash), and i need a backup in case the fault returns.
I think if you BIOS doesn't recognise the disk/IDE controller it's dead. If that's the case you can only check in your BIOS setup to see what other boot options are there. You might down to a floppy disk only. I think I read somewhere there is a 'wake up puppy' program that starts on a floppy and then switches to a usb - maybe this would do the trick?
Also if you can boot from floppy maybe you can update your BIOS to recognise other boots. (unlikely though)
DB
Also if you can boot from floppy maybe you can update your BIOS to recognise other boots. (unlikely though)
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Maybe this will be possible . . .
http://www.scubasewj.com/shiny-things/t ... d-desktop/
not yet on Puppy
. . . I want one!
http://www.scubasewj.com/shiny-things/t ... d-desktop/
not yet on Puppy
. . . I want one!
Hey, i want one.
As it turns out i managed to *fix* the problem, temporarily at least.
The machine was running windows 98, and the problem got worse until the machine would not turn on at all. Around about this time i realised that the problem only surfaced if the machine had been shut down correctly, if i simply turned off the power, it would boot up every time.
I now have another two touchscreens, and am working on getting those working under puppy.
As it turns out i managed to *fix* the problem, temporarily at least.
The machine was running windows 98, and the problem got worse until the machine would not turn on at all. Around about this time i realised that the problem only surfaced if the machine had been shut down correctly, if i simply turned off the power, it would boot up every time.
I now have another two touchscreens, and am working on getting those working under puppy.