(old)Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

After many weeks of anguish I've found a distro which is stable on my via Epia 500 and I'm very very happy - it will eventually be an audio only media box, but its other purpose is for backups.

Firstly I can confirm that the instructions for hard drive install on hda1 do indeed work. I changed the "type" to 4E with cfdisk then rebooted, then changed it back to 82, then installed to hard drive. No problems.

So the next thing I need is rsync to do back ups. Am I right in saying I'll need ssh on the puppy box (actually that would be sshd wouldn't it if I'm sending to it?)? and then I install rsync from source. I've seen a thread on sshd on this forum, with a .pup file.

So if anyone can confirm that that's the most sensible way of going about it, plus possible pitfalls then that would be great

many thanks,

Alan

Well in case anyone else wants to try this and can't see that amazing deluge of answers (!), I can confirm that this does indeed work. You need to get sshd working and put the line in /etc/rc.d/rc.local
Then get the usr_devx.sfs to enable source code compiling, and copy this to /
Then obtain the rsync source code and compile as directed in the read me (by running And then it works like a champ - and you too can make a really good back up machine out of a low spec pc.