Problem booting liveCD

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Problem booting liveCD

#1 Post by JumpyPuppy »

I'm tryin to install Puppy 1.0.2 to my old computer:

Pentium2 - 200MHz
32MB Ram
3GB Harddisk (2.7GB free space) - in one FAT32 partition

I took a photo of the screen where everything stops, see the attachement.
What should I do?

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#2 Post by BarryK »

Try Pup 1.0.1, it has kernel 2.4.

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#3 Post by John Sullivan »

Something similar with me;

Everything goes fast

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#4 Post by Flash »

John, those are classic symptoms of a corrupt pup001 file on your hard drive. Puppy looks for the pup001 file when it boots. If there is a pup001 file but it has something wrong with it, Puppy hangs and asks for a password.

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#5 Post by Lobster »

The pup001 is the file where configuration and work is saved on an available hard disk. To delete it you require a boot disk - a windows boot disk is often fine.

boot up
c:
and del pup001

1.0.2 is out and a major change to a faster and more comprehensive Linux kernel (core program) has been started.

However if experiencing problems try:

PizzaPuppy - uses the more stable 2.4 kernel and v1.0.1 setup with printing and better support for some older software

Notice the boot up options (activated by pressing 1-4)

http://www.freeveda.org/linux/puppy/piz ... .iso∞
http://www.freeveda.org/linux/puppy/piz ... .md5∞

torrent
http://www.linuxtracker.org/∞


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#6 Post by Flash »

Here's another thread in the forum that might have some useful info. Especially PeterSeig's posts.

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CD Boot Hanging fix

#7 Post by ezeze5000 »

Pizzapup is the way to go to fix the booting problem on older PC's



I downloaded it last night and it workes real good.


Cool wallpaper too! :D

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Re: CD Boot Hanging fix

#8 Post by Lobster »

The wallpaper is Ice kewled . . .
Glad it worked for you. Pizzasgood - the deep pan who created pizzapup will be well pleased - he is away on holiday at the moment. Barry is gonna offer a choice of kennels [ . . . ahem kernels . . . I mean . . .] which will allow boot up from 2.4 or 2.6 Linux kernels . . .
- sorry can not remember the details but this will be a further enhancement.

:)

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