How to do a FULL install of Puppy, to an empty HDD (2010)

[bambuko]

Hello bambuko

Had similar problems, and the only thing it eventually required was to manually edit menu.lst to account for the confusion created by installing Puppy to HD while the drive was connected to desktop using usb enclosure for laptop HD

But the files he reports seeing are all wrong for a normal FULL install,

I said so, in this other thread on the same subject (although whether I was right when I suggested possibly that it was frugal, is another story... )

and what do you make of this:

cp: cannot stat 'mnt/sr1/zdrv_*sfs" : No such file or directory
Finished, press ENTER key to continue:

Surely the Puppy-411 installer shouldn't be looking for the zdrv file...

mine was 4.0 so things might have changed since then?...
anyway, all this is OT to your thread and we shouldn't be hijacking it as you say it deserves it's own thread (makes it easier when somebody else is searching for a solution to the same problem)
Chris

[gychang]

This Howto was done using Puppy 4.00 (Dingo) as the guinea pig.

I hope this will help clarify the procedure, for those new to linux.

CatDude
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thank you this is great for a newbie like me.

gychang

[CatDude]

Hello gychang

Welcome to kennels mate.

thank you this is great for a newbie like me.

gychang

Glad that you found this howto useful.

CatDude
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[Andrew]

Thanks very much for this great guide, CatDude!

Just loaded Puppy 4.0 onto my 7 year old Thinkpad and it works like a charm. Streaming an internet radio station over it right now... Sweet! Thanks again for your help!

[CatDude]

Hello Andrew

Welcome to the kennels

Thanks very much for this great guide, CatDude!

Just loaded Puppy 4.0 onto my 7 year old Thinkpad and it works like a charm. Streaming an internet radio station over it right now... Sweet! Thanks again for your help!

You are very welcome mate.

CatDude
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[rjbrewer]

Hello catdude,
I like to have 2 or more puppys on hard drive (full install); so I
make my first partition a tiny grub boot partition.
That way if I muck up one of the puppys I just delete it and
reinstall with cd.
When I reach the point of installing where it says "we now have
the sometimes difficult decision of where to put grub", I just
close those windows and I'm done.

[Pedro D]

Hello

[CatDude]

Hello

Hello

CatDude
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[Pedro D]

I have a question for you catdude. On step 11, that box called
" New Size (MiB) ", what is the number in that box for?

[CatDude]

Hello Pedro D

I have a question for you catdude. On step 11, that box called
" New Size (MiB) ", what is the number in that box for?

That is the size of the SWAP partition that i created,
although if you look at the next image it say's that the SWAP partition is 258.86 MiB

I suspect this has something to do with the checkbox next to "Round to cylinders" being ticked.

CatDude
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[Pedro D]

Could you visit my post about problems I have with making the FULL install please? I would like your help there since you are a nice person and seems to be very experienced with this . The link is below.
Thank you

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=38273

[gychang]

CatDude, thanks, I will follow this verbatum.

gychang

[scoundrel]

followed the how to and then on reboot got only GNU GRUB version 0.97 .
and something about Minimal BASH ?
below that was a grub> ?

I hit enter and it just keeps coming back with the grub> thing ??

have tried the how to now 4 times and always get this on reboot ??

either I am doing something wrong.. or there is something missing or wrong with the how to ..

[CatDude]

Hello scoundrel

Welcome to the kennels.

May i suggest that you start a new thread over in the Beginners section,
as i am not a GRUB guru myself, and those that are (rcrsn51 for example) stand a better chance of finding it there.

I also suggest that you provide more details explaining EXACTLY what you have done,
for example:
how is your drive/drives formatted, and what Puppy version you are using.

The more details you provide, the easier it is for someone to offer assistance.


CatDude
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[scoundrel]

Hello scoundrel

Welcome to the kennels.

May i suggest that you start a new thread over in the Beginners section,
as i am not a GRUB guru myself, and those that are (rcrsn51 for example) stand a better chance of finding it there.

I also suggest that you provide more details explaining EXACTLY what you have done,
for example:
how is your drive/drives formatted, and what Puppy version you are using.

The more details you provide, the easier it is for someone to offer assistance.


CatDude
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not a problem catdude.. . as far as what and how.. I followed your instructions to the letter.. except for the ext2 ..I used ext3 .....

this morning I didn't quit reinstalling till it showed a boot screen on reboot .. tried all kinds of changes to your tut .. then finally it showed the boot screen.. happy camper as of now..

[CatDude]

Hello scoundrel

not a problem catdude.. . as far as what and how.. I followed your instructions to the letter.. except for the ext2 ..I used ext3 .....

I use ext3 for all of my partitions, both full and frugal installs
and i have never had any problems of any kind.

this morning I didn't quit reinstalling till it showed a boot screen on reboot .. tried all kinds of changes to your tut .. then finally it showed the boot screen.. happy camper as of now..

So you can't recall what you did that finally got it to work ?

At least you have got it working.

CatDude
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[scoundrel]

well..... one thing that struck me as strange .. was that this morning the hard drive partitions were sda instead of hda .??

with only one hard drive and it set as master.. this shouldn't be so.. + my friend is not that happy with it, puppy 4.1.2 is not playing his radio station and he wants a bit more out of it.. so I guess I'll be getting it back tomorrow ... think I'll try MM08 on it and see if it will run it right.. the specs on his lappy being quite dismal ..

[CatDude]

Hello scoundrel

well..... one thing that struck me as strange .. was that this morning the hard drive partitions were sda instead of hda .??

with only one hard drive and it set as master.. this shouldn't be so..

Not so,
i take it you are using a Puppy with the latest kernel (k2.6.25.16) which would make your partitions sda1, sda2 etc
If you were using a retro version (k2.6.21.7) then your partitions would be hda1, hda2 etc

CatDude
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[scoundrel]

Hello scoundrel

well..... one thing that struck me as strange .. was that this morning the hard drive partitions were sda instead of hda .??

with only one hard drive and it set as master.. this shouldn't be so..

Not so,
i take it you are using a Puppy with the latest kernel (k2.6.25.16) which would make your partitions sda1, sda2 etc
If you were using a retro version (k2.6.21.7) then your partitions would be hda1, hda2 etc

CatDude
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that would explain it

[zippytex]

Wow! I cannot believe it! I had my new laptop on one side with your flash program and my old laptop on my right side. I progressed window by window until I was done! Thanks so much, I have been trying for days!
Not trying to advance more quickly than the flash showed me was the trick! My old one is slower and I kept thinking something was wrong, because it produced the new screens much slower! Thanks for taking the time to do this. It should be required reading and viewing for all the new people. By the way, did I say thanks!!!!!