Experiences in creating an April64 bootable media

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Experiences in creating an April64 bootable media

#1 Post by gcmartin »

Post any steps or experiences you think others may want to know about installing this distro.
Last edited by gcmartin on Sat 10 Jan 2015, 04:10, edited 1 time in total.

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April installation experience to a 2GB USB stick

#2 Post by gcmartin »

My experience installing April64 version of January 4th 2015 is in this webpage.

Hope it is useful and clear to those who want to see it first before actually plunging in.

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#3 Post by don570 »

It's very easy to install Quirky April to a USB stick (In my case it was
a removable card reader)

If your computer doesn't allow USB booting then install PLOP or
use a PLOP CD. Here is my instructions to create a PLOP CD
http://208.109.22.214/puppy/viewtopic.p ... 15d472c571

Installing PLOP (rather than using a CD) is also quite simple.
The instructions are at thePLOP site

The instructions are different depending on whether you have a Linux or Windows
computer, which can be confusing.
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When using the install script '4install-quirky-to-drive' when there is not
enough space to decompress ---> There is a warning message in the terminal

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Uncompressing april-6.89.usfs.xz to april-6.89.usfs...
xz: (stdout): Write error: No space left on device

Final sanity check: 'sdc' is correct? (ENTER if OK, CTRL-C abort):



Don't be confused by this message.
It just means that you don't have enough space. Just start again.
The script and april-6.89.usfs.xz must be on a disk
that has more space available.

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