Comments on: Installing Puppy Linux to your Hard Drive

By: convetible pants

convetible pants — Mon, 02 May 2011 22:37:55 +0000

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By: esternot

esternot — Sat, 26 Mar 2011 05:31:13 +0000

Can’t figure out how to install Puppy Linux 5.02 to this 30-GB hard drive. In a temporary file, the Puppy installation wizard provides what are supposedly the proper startup parameters, stating that Linux uses a different device notation (hd0,0) than does the GRUB loader (sda1,0) to refer to which hard drive and partition that GRUB can find the necessary startup files.

However, changing the configuration file, menu.lst, by commenting out the old line and replacing it with the new one didn’t work. Could’ve sworn I installed Puppy on that 120-GB HD that I recently sold using the same instructions and without having to mess with any configuration files, so why won’t it work this time?

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By: lanceelane

lanceelane — Sun, 09 Jan 2011 05:17:08 +0000

thank you very much! sometimes i got paranoid because i thought something wasn’t going to run, but it pulled through with flying colors! one of my ram sticks in an hp pavilion 7955 went bad. thought i had checked it earlier, but i guess not! so i’m only running on 256mb of ram. i tried damn small linux, but then i saw some videos on this and decided to look it up on youtube and bam! there is my new favorite os (besides windows 7)! but thank you for the very easy tutorial on how to install it to a hdd!

By: newey499

newey499 — Fri, 17 Dec 2010 12:17:53 +0000

The instructions at the top also work for installing puppy linux as a virtual machine using vmplayer.

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By: flat irons

flat irons — Fri, 08 Oct 2010 04:23:58 +0000

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By: rbwilliams

rbwilliams — Fri, 21 May 2010 22:49:39 +0000

I have been only using puppy as a liveCD. This is the first article i followed that actually worked for installing puppy!

i am using Turbopup xtreme with a
$25 ebay purchase
Dell Latitude Cp laptop
PII 233mhz, 128mb.
PMCMCIA WiFi card
Seamonkey web browser.

But look at what i can do!

By: Waffeln

Waffeln — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 23:54:26 +0000

Thanks for the sharing! Your blog truly helped me.

By: Miguel

Miguel — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 01:11:54 +0000

I installed Puppy Linux in the T22 IBM Laptop, it is working perfect!!!.
My 4 years old kid is using this S.O. with no issues.

I am using NDISWRAPPER for the wireless network and it is working fine.

By: Esteban

Esteban — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 01:23:16 +0000

OOPS meant right now NOT right know

By: Esteban

Esteban — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 01:22:13 +0000

I too have tried all day and in all ways to install Puppy 4.21 with zero success.

I wiped the hard drive with duke nuke before trying to install. Puppy 4.21 works just fine via the CD, infact using right know, but I would love to install on this presario 2200.

Well calling it a night.

By: Simon Taylor

Simon Taylor — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 00:53:08 +0000

Thanks for your succinct how-to. My son & I have been trying to reformat his new old Dell Inspiron 3500 (64 Mb ~ 303.9 Mhz) with what is purported to be the fastest and lightest Linux OS for the job. However, neither frugal nor full install options are giving us any Puppy love.

We followed the Puppy forum suggestions and used the installers – off a memory stick – and iso off CD. … Wiped the IDE SATA hard drive … couldn’t get it to reboot off grub: it can now, but still gives us all the full menu of options, i.e. English / Qwerty / Xvesa, etc. And will not reboot from the GUI. Must turn it off manually. As a result: no pup_save file requested and we don’t know how to to make one.

In the process of following your guidelines through for the second time: sda1 is now ext3 after GParted session; and the CD seems to be filling the memory with a new full version of Puppy… It won’t stop! (down to 2.11 MiB)

Added to this highly educational if frustrating mess the fact that we can’t get the Asus Wireless AP card connecting (WL-107) to our WEP encrypted WLAN. (Found what we thought was the right driver but no luck.)

If you chance upon this comment, we’d appreciate your advice.

Thank you,

Simon Taylor

By: Jamick

Jamick — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 17:42:07 +0000

Hi ;D
A great and very helpful article. I install my first linux – puppy Linux today ;D
thanks for this

Jamick

By: andy

andy — Sun, 10 May 2009 18:33:55 +0000

Hi. Thanks great run through.
I am new at this Linux thing and am in the process of trying different distros. Puppy Linux would seem to be ideal for my needs.
I have a 2nd comp that we use specs as follows Celeron 900, 512mb ram.
40 gig HD split into 2 partions 20 gig each, dual booting 98SE and XP,
Apollo P2100 usb printer which works in 98SE but not XP, network card with broadband. I want something that will allow us to browse and watch iplayer etc, listen to music and for the kids to do homework with the printer etc.
Puppy linux seems ideal for this and I have managed to surf, listen to music and print so far so good. I have loaded Puppy via live cd, had a play got it to do the save file bit and then reloaded via live cd with it finding the file and settings etc. So next step was to install it.
This is where I get stuck I have tried reinstalling several times, it is with Grub where I seem to fall down.
I have tried all 3 options re startup floppy, MBR the other one which is called ? superblock (I think) when I go to restart it just stops right at the beginning. I have no idea how to edit the file ( menu1st )
I think it was called, lol can’t you just tell I am a newbie at this!
I followed a run through I found on this but still couldn’t seem to correct it, I used to run games from Dos years ago pre Win95 so I don’t think I am a complete nonce but the linux command line has me somewhat stumped. I downloaded a util called supergrub and tried getting that to sort it but that got me no further forward probably down to mw not knowing what I am doing ! Puppy would be great and I guess it s probably something really simple and obvious but I can’t figure it ! At the moment I have Ubuntu up and running this went on no probs and boots up fine. The puppy installation goes great but then gets to the Grub part and then says “oh this bits quite difficult and you will have to sort it” don’t leave me now I say. Lol.
Anyway sorry to waffle and if anybody can help as I would rather have Puppy I would be most grateful.
As an aside can anybody give a clue why movies clips etc in iplayer youtube etc play so slowly? I have reduced the res to 800×600, are there any other settings I can change colour depth etc to speed it up.
BTW my vga card is an AGP Geforce 2 titanium 64mb.
Regards Andy.

By: Mark McGlashan

Mark McGlashan — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 21:13:35 +0000

A great article. Very helpful to all those wanting to learn how to install puppy Linux. One critic this is all the details could have been numbered. Keep up the good work. Mark

By: Mark McGlashan

Mark McGlashan — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 20:51:08 +0000

I have been in the computer business for years. One of the best ways to find help is through articles like this. They simplify ones understanding and encourage those with a brief understanding about computers to attempt to learn something new. Well Done mate. One critic I think you should label all the steps in numbers,

By: sb

sb — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 19:31:22 +0000

@Lin: I don’t believe Linux OS are intentionally made difficult to use. Distros are generally a compilation of numerous separately and individually developed projects often developed with no financial support and only by the generosity of the developers donating time. Often projects arise to address a specific need and speed is often top priority. It takes a lot of time to fine tune an easy to use GUI and write documentation. This is not usually the funnest part of development and is often missing due to time constraints. And remember you could always buy a corporately sponsored distro that supplies what you’re asking for and phone or email support. Easy to use OSes are able to accomplish this in large part because they don’t always worry about compatibility for the widest array of hardware and complimentary software. Linux does.

@David: Not surprising at all. I’ve run XP on a PIII 450MHz with an 8G HD and 256MB RAM. It’s not necessarily fun but it does work. In my experience Windows 2000 is good for older machines but I’m not technical enough to know if this is a huge sacrifice. It got Windows apps running faster than they would if they were on XP.

By: Lin

Lin — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 02:38:20 +0000

I’m tired of those linux OS that aren’t user friendly. Like this one. What kind of technology make it difficult for users? Its sadly that these awesome OS of Linux are behind MW and what tech is about. I think all distros should make these OS’s to make their own partitions automatic like Ubuntu. And also be considerate with dial up modems and slow connections. These details among all the difficult techs users find is what put Linux behind Windows.

By: David

David — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 02:26:28 +0000

@Fabian:

Back in the dawn of time (2006 ), I was only using Puppy as a CD “emergency kit” OS, so I never checked the hard drive install. Just did one today from a Live session and… recalled when the installer complained about needing a partition to install it on all the times that GParted (by default in the Puppy menu for quite some time, now) saved my bacon on other computers. Invoked it, did the necessary partitioning, closed it and went back to the install wizard.

Hmmm, maybe by now the install wizard would have invoked GParted anyway, but I never found out.

Grub was a pain to get configured. The “automagical” installation wasn’t so magical. But manual editing fixed things right up. Now, the guy who’d managed to trash a pirated copy of XP can get his computer back for email and surfing the web (all he does–doesn’t even have a printer)with a legal OS on it. (I don’t understand how he was running XP on a 700mhz comp with a 9GB hdd and 256MB of memory, anyway… ) With Puppy Linux, the thing’s running better than a 2Ghz+ computer dragging Windows behind it…

Man, am I pleased with the Puppy installer. Neat.

By: lindope

lindope — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 00:55:58 +0000

Your information regarding the ‘Normal’ and ‘Coexist’ selections is not quite correct. Normal means it will install the full Puppy Linux on the HD, Coexist means it will only copy the “saved settings” files so you can boot from a USB drive or CD. In other words, what they mean by ‘coexist’ is to coexist on the same PARTITION not HD. If you have a different OS on a separate partition, you should still choose ‘Normal’ if you want to install the full Puppy.

Otherwise, thanks for a succinct how to.

lindope

By: tata888

tata888 — Thu, 22 May 2008 07:38:09 +0000

Hi there, i’m just a noob to this linux and I just met this puppy linux. I was in loe first time I used this as it was light and had whatever I needed.

However, i have this problem on how to install to the hard drive coz when I tried to install the puppy in HD, it says that my HD can’t be unmounted.

So I tried the frugal install on my hda1 with other linux in it and i resulted in failure. I couldn’t save it in my HD!

It is said that it can’t mount the file

can anyone help me?

By: L.K.

L.K. — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 21:04:56 +0000

Thanks for the tutorial.

I didn’t realize that Puppy Linux Universal Installer does not include partitioning of the hard drive. I should have known better.

Anyway, I installed Puppy Linux 2.15 on my Toshiba 2065CDS. My 3Com 3C574-TX NIC was recognized, and I am surfing away on Verizon DSL. Yay!

I chose the VESA video instead of Xorg because of the age of my laptop.

For some unknown reason, the NIC card would not work in the Toshiba though it works in my Thinkpad 600. Those darn Windows device drivers failed me on this. Linux to the rescue.

Also, despite Fabian Serrano’s suggestion about using a Ubuntu Live CD to create both /ext3 partition and a linux-swap partition, it isn’t needed. The Puppy Linux Live CD works just fine for this task.

By: Master fong

Master fong — Thu, 03 May 2007 07:23:50 +0000

i installed puppy linux and when it boots it say’s
“A:\”
do i have to type some kinna command?

By: Fabian L. Serrano

Fabian L. Serrano — Thu, 28 Dec 2006 11:28:45 +0000

1.) boot using ubuntu live cd, from terminal run gparted
2.) make two partitions one with ext2, the other as linux swap
3.) reboot with puppy live cd
4.) follow universal installation for hard disk and grub installer
5.) your done