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This is an old revision of HowToUsePuppy made by Puppyite on 2009-10-25 11:32:51.
To be able to use Puppy either:
or
- Perform either a frugal or full installation (which involves)
- installing the Puppy Linux operating system
- installing a boot loader
Recommended course of action
- As you become more confident you may later decide to perform an installation. Start with a InstallationFrugal frugal installation. At a later date you may perform a full installation. You will need the Puppy Linux Live CD or DVD created earlier so as to install a boot loader. Without a boot loader one does not have an operating system. If your machine does not have an optical disc drive, start off by using someone else's.
- If you really must insist on not creating a Puppy Linux Live DVD, then you will have to follow this procedure which involves more effort: Installing without a Live DVD
Free technical support
Acquiring Puppy
Installation
- GrubQuickGuide GRUB Quick Guide - GRand Unified Bootloader
- Run Puppy from Windows 98 . See also Pup4DOS
- 64 Meg or Less RAM
- How To Install Puppy in MS-DOS Without a CD-ROM or Floppy Drive
- How To Install Puppy on a NTFS Partition ... i.e. most Windows XP/2000/NT installs
Configuring Puppy
- Configuring Puppy
- Install extra DotPup programs
- WiFi aka Wireless or IEEE 802.11
- Configure GRUB
Miscellaneous
- How to do things in Puppy, see CategoryHowTo
- Linux For Beginners
- Puppy For Beginners
- History of Puppy, see HistoryPuppy
- Other Distros Comparable to Puppy (in size)
- Former wiki locations: Drupal wiki and Wakka wiki
- How to burn Puppy Live CD or DVD, see CreateLiveCDorDVD
- Mounting and Unmounting drives
- Printing, see PrintingInPuppy
- Security
- Privacy, see Tor.
Interactions with Other Operating Systems
- How to use a NTFS partition with Puppy Linux for Windows NT, 2000, and XP users.
- List of HowTo's in the Wiki, see CategoryHowTo.
- Use FTP with gFTP
- Install Puppy to a USB flash drive by using the Puppy Universal Installer
- Run Linux off an USB stick? ... external PDF
- Use the Console command line tutorial
Enhancements
- PuppyUnleashed ...customizing Puppy
- Window Managers ...there is more than one way...
Hardware
- Minimum Hardware Requirements, see CategoryHardware.
- Modems
- PCMCIA wireless card
- USB
- Trouble Booting USB Keys/USB Flash Drives
- Changing Mouse
Programming
Puppy Internals
- Booting ...what happens when Puppy starts
Categories
CategoryHowToCategoryPuppyDocumentation
