Greetings Everyone,
I have been trying to boot (chubby) Puppy from the CD drive of my girlfriend's computer (which crawls like a tortoise on downers when running Windows XP). Anyways, Puppy begins the booting process then towards the end it lists several one line messages about how this and that does not have room to load, then it asks me for my password and goes no further. This CD has always booted fine on my computer. Here are some specs for my girlsfriend's computer:
XP with one NTFS partition
128mb RAM
Intel Celeron CPU 1200Mhz, 1.20Ghz
I'd really like to get Puppy to run on this machine and then abandon XP altogether.
Thanks
Can't Boot From CD
Re: Can't Boot From CD
No, THANK YOU. Its music to my ears.tazmanic wrote:I'd really like to get Puppy to run on this machine and then abandon XP altogether.
Thanks
The minimum RAM requirements for standard Puppy is 128, short of that you need a swap partition. (well it is actually not that strict in some cases) I'm sorry I can't find you the link to the page, but its at goosee/puppy somewhere.
Maybe Chubby needs more.
In order to help you accomplish your most worthwhile goal, I'd like to suggest a plan. Test the system with the standard Puppy and boot 3 for no usage of the hard-drive.
See if it looks good in terms of compatibility, and meets your criteria, then go for a replacement of XP with Puppy.
Lots of ways to get rid of XP, then prepare your hard drive for installing Puppy to an non-NTFS filesystem and create the swap partion and all.
BTW - In answer to your first concern, as it is, you probably have to delete (from within XP) the pup001, if one exists, because it sounds as Flash said - corrupt.
I still don't know if you have enough physical RAM for Chubby, because I don't know the requirements.