Hello,
I'm trying to install Puppy (Toutou Linux) on a panel PC. The panel PC hasn't HDD but use a compactflash card instead. I don't find the 'Menu' -> Système->Pdisk utility to make the install on it .. Is it normal?
After I would like to use the touch screen capability of the panel and use a virtual keyboard^^ (For the moment I use USB mouse&keyboard)
Thanks
How to install Puppy on the CompactFlash card?
- Sky Aisling
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How to install Puppy on the CompactFlash card?
Hello Zod and Welcome to the Forum
I've had good luck with frugal installs to flash cards using Shinobar's
Frugal Installer in combo with GRUB04DOS
Both found here under Pic-Ups:
http://shino.pos.to/linux/downloads.html
I've had good luck with frugal installs to flash cards using Shinobar's
Frugal Installer in combo with GRUB04DOS
Both found here under Pic-Ups:
http://shino.pos.to/linux/downloads.html
Puppy Universal Installer + grub4dos.
If installing from a card reader on another computer --> "USB Flash Media, later to be inserted into IDE (eg CF Card in IDE adapter)"
If installing directly to the target computer, with the card already inside --> "IDE/SATA Flash Media (eg DiskOnModule)"
Frugal install.
Then run grub4dos. CHECK YOUR menu.lst FILE AND MAKE SURE IT SAYS "pmedia=ataflash" ON ALL PUPPY BOOT ENTRIES. If you don't you'll get an error message instead of a boot process.
EDIT: [shameless plug] Weird computers that only accept CF "hard drives" are not the only place you can use those. See a howto I wrote, here --> http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=84649 I call a CF card in an IDE adapter, a "Poor Man's SSD" -- for a reason! If you only need 8-16gb of space they're golden. After that things get pricey fast.
If installing from a card reader on another computer --> "USB Flash Media, later to be inserted into IDE (eg CF Card in IDE adapter)"
If installing directly to the target computer, with the card already inside --> "IDE/SATA Flash Media (eg DiskOnModule)"
Frugal install.
Then run grub4dos. CHECK YOUR menu.lst FILE AND MAKE SURE IT SAYS "pmedia=ataflash" ON ALL PUPPY BOOT ENTRIES. If you don't you'll get an error message instead of a boot process.
EDIT: [shameless plug] Weird computers that only accept CF "hard drives" are not the only place you can use those. See a howto I wrote, here --> http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=84649 I call a CF card in an IDE adapter, a "Poor Man's SSD" -- for a reason! If you only need 8-16gb of space they're golden. After that things get pricey fast.