You are contented with Puppy and want to give Puppy enough playground.
Or, you are an expert of Linux and want to move to Puppy.
How to do NOT
There are 3 things you must NOT do.
- Do NOT 'FULL' install, do 'FRUGAL'.
- Do NOT save the session to the entire partition, save the session in a file.
- Do NOT use 'Grub config', use the Grub4DosConfig.
- Do NOT 'Full' install
Barry says:
Remark 'normal' is quoted.FULL install: A 'normal' Linux installation, requiring usage of the entire partition by Puppy.
Yes, it is 'normal' for traditional Linux. But NOT recommended as for Puppy.
If you are an expert of Linux, you wonder why Puppy run with 'root', the privilege user.
You are right. Puppy can easily corrupt. One of the reason comes from this issue.
Don't worry. Puppy can easily restore the original with RAM mode, 'pfix=ram' boot option.
Puppy can revive with RAM mode, Puppy can load and unload additional SFS to change its appearance.
That is all thanks to the FRUGAL install style.
'FRUGAL' never means poor. You can enrich the FRUGAL install with 512MB pupsave making use of /mnt/home and additional SFS's. - Do NOT save the session to the entire partition
If you save the session to the entire partition, all the merit of the FRUGAL install disappears.
It doesn't support RAM mode boot, not loading additional SFS and etc. - Do NOT use 'Grub config'
Never do the 'Grub config' but use the 'Grub4DosConfig'.
Because the 'Grub config' does not support the FRUGAL install.
You may be unfamiliar with the FRUGAL install, and may be confused in making the boot entry for the FRUGAL install even if you are an expert of Linux.
The 'Grub4DosConfig' automatically makes the configuration for the FRUGAL installations of Puppy for you.
Suppose you got a new HDD or you can adapt a new partition for Puppy.
Note that you need not use the Puppy Universal Installer.Frugalinstaller is a choice, but you can do it manually. You need Grub4Dos.
- Format the new partition with of Linux, ext3 or ext4 file system is recommended.
If the RAM on your PC is less than 512MB, I recommend an additional swap partition, 512 MB may be enough. - Make a directory at the top layer, say /mnt/sdb1/puppy.
The directory name never have special characters nor spsces.
All lower case 'a-z', numbers '0-9' and underscore('_') or hyphen('-'), i recommend. - Copy all the files in the live CD, or the 3-4 files, vmlinuz, initrd.gz and *.sfs, into the directory.
- Run the 'Grub4DosConfig'.
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