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This is an old revision of InstallationFrugal made by coolpup on 2010-08-12 10:18:43.
When a frugal installation is desired, then it is convenient to have a LiveDVD because it can be used to install the required boot loader (either /wiki/applications/pre-installed/grub GRUB, SYSLINUX, or EXTLINUX depending on the format of the partition).
First acquire the latest, official, production version of Puppy Linux.
Installation to any partition using an optical drive
Flash tutorialInstallation from within Puppy to an U.S.B flash drive without using an optical drive
- Select a U.S.B flash drive (if it contains any files copy them elsewhere if required)
- Go to Menu > Setup > BootFlash and follow the instructions BootFlash formats the flash drive
- Click on the Puppy iso file to open its contents
- Copy the files vmlinuz, initrd.gz and *.sfs to the U.S.B. flash drive
Installation from within Microsoft Windows to an U.S.B flash without using an optical drive
- Format the U.S.B flash drive to FAT32 using Menu > System > GParted
- When using FAT32 partitions, the bootloader syslinux, instead of GRUB, is required: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/boot/syslinux/
- Acquire the desired Puppy Linux iso file, e.g. http://puppylinux.org/main/index.php?file=Download%20Latest%20Release.htm
- Extract the contents of the Puppy iso file to the partition, using e.g. 7-zip, (it is important that the original file names be kept; sometimes the archivers mess up with the names e.g. PUP_434.SFS instead of pup-434.sfs)
- Rename the file "isolinux.cfg" to "syslinux.cfg"
- Delete the file "isolinux.bin"
- Edit "syslinux.cfg" in a text editor: change "pmedia=cd" to "pmedia=usbflash"
- 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/partition):
syslinux.exe -m -a X:
References
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=46129http://www.puppylinux.org/main/index.php?file=Manual-English05.txt
