In a boot partition there is grub and a complete tiny distribution (not in use but works). I have used this on my box without harddisk or CD about one year. Yes, boot from USB is required.greengeek wrote:So do you mean that your boot partition is just big enough for grub, and that the remainder of the frugal files live on the usb sticks? So you just use the hard drive as a boot device only? Or did you mean that each usb stick also has grub on it, requiring the PC to support boot_from_usb?L18L wrote:I have a small (16M is more than enough) bootable partion containing grub on every device (1 hardisk, several USB sticks, no CD).
Thus you could try frugal installs without burning a CD
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Late I have installed a SSD (behaves like a harddisk but faster).
And there too grub in boot partition. Several puppies all frugal in their own directory.
Your Computer has USB but does not boot from it.
With grub in a bootable partition (or any bootloader) of your harddisk you can boot different operating system.
Not the iso directly, but I hope you find elsewhere howto copy the relevant files from inside the iso into the appropriate location.
First step would be:
Use gparted to create an extra boot partition and maybe a swap partition after having resized the existing partition. You can do this from a puppy running from CD.
Second step
Installation of grub. Should be included in Puppy Universal Installer.
To have a partition of its own for grub is not absolutely required but convenient.
I do not have experience using grub4dos, but I assume it is easier to install. (nooby knows how to do it)
Good luck