Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

[newuser]

getting 1.02 to work fine using my cdrom as a boot, but i wanted to install it to my harddrive to boot without a cdrom. i dont have the expenses to buy a new cdrom. i dont see the grub boot manager when i begin loading puppy, i just see a big puppy logo, and the files loading when i turn on my machine.

the user/password problems seems to be solved in 1.02, not sure why or how, but it is now working, great thanks.

help with harddrive install?

[Rich]

<< not too familiar with 1.0.2 >>

BUT, in 1.0.1 if you click the start menu and go to setup, there's an install puppy harddrive option . Is this option in 1.0.2 ?

Rich

[danleff]

Yes, I just did this. The hard drive install gives you an option of installing grub. There is also an option in start-->setup to manually configure grub, if you wish.

Grub is for the hard drive install. It is not an option off the cd itself.

[newuser]

so after i install it to the harddrive, it will boot without a CD everytime am i right? it's just like windows?

[Lobster]

Yes.

Puppy has two options on the HD install. Option 2 will allow a boot from HD whilst option 1 still requires a floppy boot disk.

Option 2 will also set up the Grub boot loader which allows the booting from HD just like Windows (a pre-Puppy Operating System and retirement system for Bill Gates)

Hope that answers your question

[newuser]

i have tried option 1: loading with a floppy.

when puppy tries to make a boot disk, it does not create a autoexec.bat file. from what ive read from the puppy prompt, it is supposed to.

using the boot disk to load hasnt work thus far.

[BarryK]

When working on 1.0.2, I focussed my attention on Option 2 installation, and I don't think that I even tested Option 1.

Note, due to the size of the new kernel, there is no longer an autoexec.bat file, as there is no room for command.com on the floppy.
config.sys is used instead to directly launch tiny.exe (the boot loader), totally bypassing command.com.

So, Option 1 is not using Grub at all.

Probably this whole situation will be done away with, now that we have Grub, and we will use Grub to create a boot floppy -- so not need a dos and tiny.exe system at all.

[Bruce B]

[babbs]

[Lobster]

There are worse things in the world then crypto-geeks with money. Certainly you can cite me - I am not responsible in mind body or speech (documentary evidence on request)

[BarryK]

[Bruce B]

I justed searched Google for +grub +floppy - there is a lot out there on the subject.

I'll try and save you a little time by doing some preliminary work and post what I learned, links and etc.

[BarryK]

Yes, but I think Grubconfig has done it all for us.
Just need to execute Grubconfig from the install scripts.
-- I already made a slight modification to Grubconfig, it accepts a partiton on the commandline,
grub /dev/hda2
which makes it that much easier.
...and there is a menu option in Grubconfig to create a Grub boot floppy, as well as install grub to h.d.

[BarryK]

Bruce B,
If you want to, or anyone else, you could try the install-to-hard-drive script Option-2 and at the end where it calls Grubconfig and you choose the "automatic install" menu option, I think it does ask if you want to create a boot floppy -- find out how that works.

If it does, maybe we would have to call Grubconfig twice, first time to install Grub to h.d., second time to install to floppy. Both would be optional -- or rather it would have to at least one of them, or both.

[kmoffat]

I have a hard drive with several linux distros running from a grub boot, and would like to add puppy to my existing /boot/grub/menu.lst file. What would the proper boot stanza consist of? (I ran the hard disk install, and created a boot floppy, not installing grub)


Thanks.