I have an IBM A20M laptop (PIII 700MHz 512MB Ram, 440BX chipset) which has had a new lease of life using Puppy 413 frugal hd install running perfectly.
I decided to upgrade to v5.01 however.
The live CD runs but does not see the Hard drive (Toshiba) I then put the relevant files on the HD for a manual (frugal) install and on boot from the hard disk it stalled with the message lupu-501.sfs not found although the path and all files seem correct.
Loading up other liveCD's : - 4.2 detects drive but 4.3.1 doesn't.
So I would guess something was dropped from the kernel between 4.2 and 4.3
Although not a total newbie my experience using Linux is limited.
My question to everybody would be:
Is there a way of fixing this so I can use puppy 5.
Thanks in advance
Puppy 5.01 cannot see hard drive
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There is something contradictory in your post.
You say the 502 live doesn't see the HDD and yet you write you did put the relevant files on the HDD. Magic?
I think your HW has problems with the newer kernels.
You better try the retro versions where it exist and I think lucid doesn't have one.
But you can try wary, a lower kernel then quirky.
You say the 502 live doesn't see the HDD and yet you write you did put the relevant files on the HDD. Magic?
I think your HW has problems with the newer kernels.
You better try the retro versions where it exist and I think lucid doesn't have one.
But you can try wary, a lower kernel then quirky.
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Find packages in a snap and install using Puppy Package Manager (Menu).
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Use peppyy's [url=http://wellminded.com/puppy/pupsearch.html]puppysearch[/url]
Partitions made with Puppies before 4.3.1 have 128 inodes.hazcrew wrote:nooby - spot on.
I've decided to keep it at v4.2.1 I'll leave creating a retro v5 to someone with a bit more experience than me.
Thanks
Partitions from 4.3.1 and on have 256 inodes.
Trying to install a new version on a partition made with the
earlier Puppy can cause problems.
Inspiron 700m, Pent.M 1.6Ghz, 1Gb ram.
Msi Wind U100, N270 1.6>2.0Ghz, 1.5Gb ram.
Eeepc 8g 701, 900Mhz, 1Gb ram.
Full installs