8-bit wrote:Take this as as a suggestion in that on the windows laptop, get and install Easy BCD.
It is a boot loader for windows that will let you install other Operating systems like Puppy Linux without the fear of overwriting your Windows boot code.
It takes a little longer to boot that way, but may be worth the effort.
If some others can give you detailed information on installing Puppy along with windows vista - windows 7, be sure to take it to heart.
8-bit wrote:Take this as as a suggestion in that on the windows laptop, get and install Easy BCD.
It is a boot loader for windows that will let you install other Operating systems like Puppy Linux without the fear of overwriting your Windows boot code.
It takes a little longer to boot that way, but may be worth the effort.
If some others can give you detailed information on installing Puppy along with windows vista - windows 7, be sure to take it to heart.
Burn_IT wrote:I personally steer well clear of EasyBCD as I find it confusing ( and I throw partitions around like confetti. )
I use two boot managers:
1) is Symon and sits in the disk boot sectors and allows me to dynamically manage what disks and partitions are visible (I have 3 fixed disks in my machine with lots of partitions on each from which I can choose up to 4)
2) is Grub4Dos that sits in the partition boot sectors and controls what partition is booted.
Grub4Dos is so much easier to use than EasyBCD and is far better supported/documented.
I partitioned my disk - as you have. Formatted the second partition as Fat32 for Puppy - and for use as a separate data disk for Windows.May I ask how you did this?
Minnesota wrote:MY 2 cents:
Puppy comes in manry flavors. Some with tons of software included, some bare bones. Also other flavors as you mentioned are available.
I highly suggest till you are more familiar with all the goodies in Puppy. That you make CD's and run Live. First test each version without a save if you wish. Or save the save file to a memory stick. Or the blank partition you built.
My search of the computer you have indicates you have a optical drive DVD+/-RW. Pick up a package of CD's. The cost is minimal. You can if you want use the option to save to the CD. One fancy feature of Puppy.
THE key here is become familiar with different versions and do not worry about immediately saving to the hard drive. You will find the speed difference between running from the hard drive and the CD is not that significant. You can always have a cup of coffee while it is reading the CD and initializing. Once running in memory it will run just as fast.
By the time you find a version you like you will have more knowledge of how to set it up. And the options available to you.
Unless you have to save, you might even be able to test your special design package with each version to see if it will run. As to VB.. that is a MS package. Don't think anything similar exists in Linux. Unfortunately neither is there an ACCESSS. Many Puppy's have a flavor of SQL lite. Even though the latest Wine indicates it will run all of O-2010. Have not tried to load Access. Speaking of that it might be possible to run your special package under Wine. Check www.winehq.org/ for what is known to run under wine.
