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Frugal Installations
Apart from running Puppy Linux from a full hard disk drive (H.D.D.) installation or from a LiveDVD, it is also possible to run it as a frugal installation, performed by extracting the contents of the container ISO or ZIP file to virtually any type of FAT32, NTFS, or EXT2/3/4 formatted partition.When a frugal installation is desired it is convenient to have a LiveDVD because it can be used to install the required boot loader (either GRUB, SYSLINUX, or EXTLINUX depending on the formatting of the installation partition). Instructions are also provided below for situations when not using an optical drive.
First acquire the container file (either iso or zip) of the desired Puppy Linux, e.g. Fluppy, Puppy 5 or Puppy 5 with extra multi-lingual keyboard support.
Installation to any partition using an optical drive
Flash tutorialInstallation to a U.S.B. flash drive without using an optical drive
If the target partition or drive contains any files copy them elsewhere if required, because they will be destroyed when formatting.From within Puppy Linux
- Update Syslinux
- Use BootFlash (otherwise see Appendix 1): Menu > Setup > BootFlash
- Click on the Puppy iso (or zip) file to open its contents
- Copy to the U.S.B. flash drive the files: vmlinuz, initrd.gz, and all those with the extensions .sfs, and .cfg
- Rename isolinux.cfg to syslinux.cfg
- Edit syslinux.cfg in a text editor: change "pmedia=cd" to "pmedia=usbflash"
- Reboot computer with U.S.B. flash drive connected
From within Microsoft Windows
- Format the drive or partition to FAT32
- Download and extract syslinux to a folder, e.g. C:/syslinux. Then go to C:/syslinux/win32/ and run this command to make the drive bootable (where X: is the drive letter for the target drive or partition):
syslinux.exe -m -a X:
- Open the Puppy iso (or zip) file to view its contents, using e.g. 7-zip, (it is important that the original file names be kept)
- Copy to the U.S.B. flash drive the files: vmlinuz, initrd.gz, and all those with the extensions .sfs, and .cfg
- Rename isolinux.cfg to syslinux.cfg
- Edit syslinux.cfg in a text editor: change "pmedia=cd" to "pmedia=usbflash"
- Reboot computer with U.S.B. flash drive connected
If the computer does not boot from the U.S.B. flash drive follow the instructions in Appendices 1 and 3 at LiveDVD.
References
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=46129http://www.puppylinux.org/main/index.php?file=Manual-English05.txt
http://aronzak.wordpress.com/2008/10/07/usb-linux-howto-puppy-41/
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=54826
Appendix
BootFlash formats the partition to FAT16 and installs the bootloader syslinux. If there is no BootFlash in the menu or FAT32 formatting is required then use syslinux directly:- Format the drive or partition to FAT32 by using GParted and install the syslinux bootloader to it with (if drive is located at /dev/sdb1):
syslinux -i --stupid /dev/sdb1
- Ensure that the boot flag is set: Menu > System > GParted > Partition > Manage Flags > boot
