history "How to Create a Full Installation on an Internal Device (H.D.D. or S.S.": PuppyLinux

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Revision [33551]

Last edited on 2024-02-08 12:23:07 by coolpup

Additions:

- **[[https://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=29653 Prepare the internal device (H.D.D. or S.S.D.)]]** (optional) via //Menu > System > [[GParted]]//; after any modifications re-start the computer __without saving__ any changes and with the ""LiveDVD/USB"" connected
- **[[https://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=29653 Install to internal device (H.D.D. or S.S.D.)]]** via //Menu > System > Puppy Universal Installer//

Deletions:

- **[[https://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=29653 Prepare the internal device (H.D.D. or S.S.D.)]]** (optional) using //Menu > System > [[GParted]]//; after any modifications re-start the computer __without saving__ any changes and with the ""LiveDVD/USB"" connected
- **[[https://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=29653 Install to internal device (H.D.D. or S.S.D.)]]** using //Menu > System > Puppy Universal Installer//

Revision [33550]

Edited on 2024-02-08 12:21:39 by coolpup

Additions:

- **Power-on the target computer**: if the computer does not start/boot from the ""LiveDVD/USB"" it will be necessary to either access a boot menu, or the U.E.F.I/B.I.O.S. firmware settings, so that the computer is instructed to boot with the desired optical drive or U.S.B. flash memory drive (and not any internal drive); re-starting will be necessary in conjunction with using the correct key(s) (read //Appendix// below)

Deletions:

- **Power-on the target computer**: if the computer does not start/boot from the ""LiveDVD/USB"" it will be necessary to either access a boot menu, or the U.E.F.I/B.I.O.S. firmware settings, so that the computer is instructed to boot with the desired optical drive or U.S.B. flash memory drive (and not any internal drive); restarting will be necessary in conjunction with using the correct key(s) (read //Appendix// below)

Revision [33549]

Edited on 2024-02-08 12:19:48 by coolpup

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~-Verifying available disk space

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~~~-Available disk space~~

Revision [33548]

Edited on 2024-02-08 11:01:12 by coolpup

Additions:

- **Power-on the target computer**: if the computer does not start/boot from the ""LiveDVD/USB"" it will be necessary to either access a boot menu, or the U.E.F.I/B.I.O.S. firmware settings, so that the computer is instructed to boot with the desired optical drive or U.S.B. flash memory drive (and not any internal drive); restarting will be necessary in conjunction with using the correct key(s) (read //Appendix// below)

Deletions:

- **Power-on the target computer**: if the computer does not start/boot from the ""LiveDVD/USB"" it will be necessary to either access a boot menu, or the U.E.F.I/B.I.O.S. firmware, so that the computer is instructed to boot with the desired optical drive or U.S.B. flash memory drive (and not any internal drive); restarting will be necessary in conjunction with using the correct key(s) (read //Appendix// below);

Revision [33547]

Edited on 2024-02-08 07:37:18 by coolpup

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~-Available disk space
~~-https://opensource.com/article/18/7/how-check-free-disk-space-linux
~~-https://www.howtogeek.com/409611/how-to-view-free-disk-space-and-disk-usage-from-the-linux-terminal/

Deletions:

~~~-https://opensource.com/article/18/7/how-check-free-disk-space-linux~~

Revision [33546]

Edited on 2024-02-08 07:32:45 by coolpup

Additions:

~-https://opensource.com/article/18/7/how-check-free-disk-space-linux
~-Setting the required boot sequence
~~-[[https://www.wikihow.com/Change-Computer-BIOS-Settings wikihow.com]]
~~-[[https://support.system76.com/articles/install-pop/#selecting-your-bootable-usb-drive-as-a-boot-device https://support.system76.com/articles/install-pop/#selecting-your-bootable-usb-drive-as-a-boot-device]]

Deletions:

~-1. https://opensource.com/article/18/7/how-check-free-disk-space-linux
~-2. Setting the required boot sequence
~-[[https://www.wikihow.com/Change-Computer-BIOS-Settings wikihow.com]]
~-[[https://support.system76.com/articles/install-pop/#selecting-your-bootable-usb-drive-as-a-boot-device https://support.system76.com/articles/install-pop/#selecting-your-bootable-usb-drive-as-a-boot-device]]

Revision [33545]

Edited on 2024-02-08 07:31:38 by coolpup

Additions:

~-1. https://opensource.com/article/18/7/how-check-free-disk-space-linux
~-2. Setting the required boot sequence
~~-[[https://helpdeskgeek.com/how-to/change-boot-order-xp-vista/ helpdeskgeek.com]]
~~-[[https://www.hiren.info/pages/bios-boot-cdrom hiren.info]]

Deletions:

1. https://opensource.com/article/18/7/how-check-free-disk-space-linux
2. Setting the required boot sequence
- [[https://helpdeskgeek.com/how-to/change-boot-order-xp-vista/ helpdeskgeek.com]]
- [[https://www.hiren.info/pages/bios-boot-cdrom hiren.info]]

Revision [33544]

Edited on 2024-02-08 07:29:45 by coolpup

Additions:

- Ensure that the target installation partition has sufficient free space available
==Appendix==
1. https://opensource.com/article/18/7/how-check-free-disk-space-linux
2. Setting the required boot sequence

Deletions:

- Ensure that the target installation partition has sufficient free space available: **%%df -ah%%**
==Appendix - Setting the required boot sequence==

Revision [33543]

Edited on 2024-02-08 07:12:33 by coolpup

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- Ensure that the target installation partition has sufficient free space available: **%%df -ah%%**

Deletions:

- Ensure that the target installation partition has sufficient free space available
~~-**%%df -ah%%**

Revision [33542]

Edited on 2024-02-08 07:11:17 by coolpup

Additions:

- Ensure that the target installation partition has sufficient free space available
~~-**%%df -ah%%**

Deletions:

~~- Ensure that the target installation partition has sufficient space available~~

Revision [33541]

Edited on 2024-02-08 06:54:51 by coolpup

No Differences

Revision [33540]

Edited on 2024-02-08 06:54:18 by coolpup

Deletions:

~https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASZm1aHDh_k
~https://www.mygnulinux.com/?p=385

Revision [33539]

Edited on 2024-02-08 06:52:05 by coolpup

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~-[[https://support.system76.com/articles/install-pop/#selecting-your-bootable-usb-drive-as-a-boot-device https://support.system76.com/articles/install-pop/#selecting-your-bootable-usb-drive-as-a-boot-device]]

Deletions:

~https://www.arsgeek.com/2006/12/05/installing-puppy-linux-to-your-hard-drive/
~https://www.ph-islands.net/pupinstall/winxp.php
~-https://support.system76.com/articles/install-pop/#selecting-your-bootable-usb-drive-as-a-boot-device
==Also on the Wiki==
~[[InstallationFrugal How to Create a Frugal Installation on an Internal or External Device]]
~[[FrugalOrFullInstallation Full or Frugal installation]]

Revision [33537]

Edited on 2024-02-08 06:26:47 by coolpup

Additions:

- **__Remove__ the ""LiveDVD/USB"" and power-off the computer __without saving__**
~-Power-on the computer

Deletions:

- **__Remove__ the ""LiveDVD/USB"" and re-start the computer __without saving__**

Revision [33536]

Edited on 2024-02-08 06:19:01 by coolpup

Additions:

~-**Power-off the target computer and connect the ""LiveDVD/USB""**

Deletions:

~-Power-off the target computer and connect the ""LiveDVD/USB""**

Revision [33535]

Edited on 2024-02-08 06:16:31 by coolpup

Additions:

~-Power-off the target computer and connect the ""LiveDVD/USB""**
- **Power-on the target computer**: if the computer does not start/boot from the ""LiveDVD/USB"" it will be necessary to either access a boot menu, or the U.E.F.I/B.I.O.S. firmware, so that the computer is instructed to boot with the desired optical drive or U.S.B. flash memory drive (and not any internal drive); restarting will be necessary in conjunction with using the correct key(s) (read //Appendix// below);
~-https://support.system76.com/articles/install-pop/#selecting-your-bootable-usb-drive-as-a-boot-device
~[[InstallationFrugal How to Create a Frugal Installation on an Internal or External Device]]

Deletions:

- **Start the target computer with the ""LiveDVD/USB""**: if the computer does not start/boot from the ""LiveDVD/USB"" it will be necessary to either access a boot menu or the B.I.O.S. so that the computer is instructed to boot with the optical drive or U.S.B. flash memory drive and not any other type of drive; restarting will be necessary in conjunction with using the correct key(s) (read //Appendix// below);
~[[InstallationFrugal How to Create a Frugal Installation on an Internal or External Hard Disk Drive (H.D.D.)]]

Revision [33458]

Edited on 2024-01-22 07:29:14 by coolpup

Deletions:

- [[https://pcsupport.about.com/od/fixtheproblem/ss/bootorderchange.htm pcsupport.about.com]]
- [[https://www.whitecanyon.com/how-to-change-boot-order.php whitecanyon.com]]
- [[https://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,2845,1785998,00.asp extremetech.com]]
- [[https://www.labtestproject.com/hardware_setting/configure_computer_bios_setup_change_computer_boot_sequence_boot_cd_rom_drive labtestproject.com]]

Revision [33453]

Edited on 2024-01-22 07:12:05 by coolpup

Additions:

- Ensure that the target installation partition has sufficient space available

Deletions:

~~- Ensure that the target installation partition has **≥350MB free space** available~~

Revision [33428]

Edited on 2024-01-21 14:31:26 by coolpup

Additions:

- **Start the target computer with the ""LiveDVD/USB""**: if the computer does not start/boot from the ""LiveDVD/USB"" it will be necessary to either access a boot menu or the B.I.O.S. so that the computer is instructed to boot with the optical drive or U.S.B. flash memory drive and not any other type of drive; restarting will be necessary in conjunction with using the correct key(s) (read //Appendix// below);
- **[[https://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=29653 Prepare the internal device (H.D.D. or S.S.D.)]]** (optional) using //Menu > System > [[GParted]]//; after any modifications re-start the computer __without saving__ any changes and with the ""LiveDVD/USB"" connected

Deletions:

- **Start the target computer with the ""LiveDVD/USB""**: if the computer does not start/boot from the ""LiveDVD"" it will be necessary to either access a boot menu or the B.I.O.S. so that the computer is instructed to boot with the optical drive or U.S.B. flash memory drive and not any other type of drive; restarting will be necessary in conjunction with using the correct key(s) (read //Appendix// below);
- **[[http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=29653 Prepare the internal device (H.D.D. or S.S.D.)]]** (optional) using //Menu > System > [[GParted]]//; after any modifications re-start the computer __without saving__ any changes and with the ""LiveDVD/USB"" connected

Revision [33427]

Edited on 2024-01-21 14:28:22 by coolpup

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====How to Create a __Full__ Installation on an Internal Device (H.D.D. or S.S.D.)====
- **Create a LiveDVD or LiveUSB**
- **Start the target computer with the ""LiveDVD/USB""**: if the computer does not start/boot from the ""LiveDVD"" it will be necessary to either access a boot menu or the B.I.O.S. so that the computer is instructed to boot with the optical drive or U.S.B. flash memory drive and not any other type of drive; restarting will be necessary in conjunction with using the correct key(s) (read //Appendix// below);
- **[[http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=29653 Prepare the internal device (H.D.D. or S.S.D.)]]** (optional) using //Menu > System > [[GParted]]//; after any modifications re-start the computer __without saving__ any changes and with the ""LiveDVD/USB"" connected
- **[[https://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=29653 Install to internal device (H.D.D. or S.S.D.)]]** using //Menu > System > Puppy Universal Installer//
~https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASZm1aHDh_k
~https://www.mygnulinux.com/?p=385
~https://www.arsgeek.com/2006/12/05/installing-puppy-linux-to-your-hard-drive/
~https://www.ph-islands.net/pupinstall/winxp.php
==Appendix - Setting the required boot sequence==
- [[https://helpdeskgeek.com/how-to/change-boot-order-xp-vista/ helpdeskgeek.com]]
- [[https://pcsupport.about.com/od/fixtheproblem/ss/bootorderchange.htm pcsupport.about.com]]
- [[https://www.hiren.info/pages/bios-boot-cdrom hiren.info]]
- [[https://www.whitecanyon.com/how-to-change-boot-order.php whitecanyon.com]]
- [[https://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,2845,1785998,00.asp extremetech.com]]
- [[https://www.labtestproject.com/hardware_setting/configure_computer_bios_setup_change_computer_boot_sequence_boot_cd_rom_drive labtestproject.com]]
~-[[https://www.wikihow.com/Change-Computer-BIOS-Settings wikihow.com]]

Deletions:

====How to Create a __Full__ Installation on an Internal Hard Disk Drive (H.D.D.)====
- **Create a LiveDVD or [[InstallationFrugal LiveUSB]]**
- **Start the target computer with the ""LiveDVD/USB""**: if the computer does not start/boot from the ""LiveDVD"" it will be necessary to either access a boot menu or the B.I.O.S. so that the computer is instructed to boot with the optical drive or U.S.B. flash memory drive and not any other type of drive; restarting will be necessary in conjunction with using the correct key(s) (see //Appendix// below);
- **[[http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=29653 Prepare the H.D.D.]]** (optional) using //Menu > System > [[GParted]]//; after any modifications re-start the computer __without saving__ any changes and with the ""LiveDVD/USB"" connected
- **[[http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=29653 Install to H.D.D.]]** using //Menu > System > Puppy Universal Installer//
~http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASZm1aHDh_k
~http://www.mygnulinux.com/?p=385
~http://www.arsgeek.com/2006/12/05/installing-puppy-linux-to-your-hard-drive/
~http://www.ph-islands.net/pupinstall/winxp.php
==Appendix - Setting the correct boot sequence==
- [[http://helpdeskgeek.com/how-to/change-boot-order-xp-vista/ helpdeskgeek.com]]
- [[http://pcsupport.about.com/od/fixtheproblem/ss/bootorderchange.htm pcsupport.about.com]]
- [[http://www.hiren.info/pages/bios-boot-cdrom hiren.info]]
- [[http://www.whitecanyon.com/how-to-change-boot-order.php whitecanyon.com]]
- [[http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,2845,1785998,00.asp extremetech.com]]
- [[http://www.labtestproject.com/hardware_setting/configure_computer_bios_setup_change_computer_boot_sequence_boot_cd_rom_drive labtestproject.com]]
~-[[http://www.wikihow.com/Change-Computer-BIOS-Settings wikihow.com]]

Revision [23986]

Edited on 2012-09-24 09:58:36 by coolpup

Additions:

~-[[http://www.wikihow.com/Change-Computer-BIOS-Settings wikihow.com]]

Deletions:

~~~~-[[http://www.wikihow.com/Change-Computer-BIOS-Settings wikihow.com]]~~

Revision [23985]

Edited on 2012-09-24 09:57:53 by coolpup

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====How to Create a __Full__ Installation on an Internal Hard Disk Drive (H.D.D.)====
---
~http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASZm1aHDh_k
~http://www.mygnulinux.com/?p=385
~http://www.arsgeek.com/2006/12/05/installing-puppy-linux-to-your-hard-drive/
~http://www.ph-islands.net/pupinstall/winxp.php
---
~~-[[http://www.wikihow.com/Change-Computer-BIOS-Settings wikihow.com]]
---
---

Deletions:

===How to Create a __Full__ Installation on an Internal Hard Disk Drive (H.D.D.)===
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASZm1aHDh_k
http://www.mygnulinux.com/?p=385
http://www.arsgeek.com/2006/12/05/installing-puppy-linux-to-your-hard-drive/
http://www.ph-islands.net/pupinstall/winxp.php
{{image url="http://www.whitecanyon.com/images-pm/boot-order-enter-bios-keys.gif"}}

Revision [23952]

Edited on 2012-09-23 13:27:08 by darkcity [==Also on the Wiki== ~[[InstallationFrugal How to]

Additions:

==Also on the Wiki==
~[[InstallationFrugal How to Create a Frugal Installation on an Internal or External Hard Disk Drive (H.D.D.)]]
~[[FrugalOrFullInstallation Full or Frugal installation]]

Deletions:

==Also see==
[[InstallationFrugal How to Create a Frugal Installation on an Internal or External Hard Disk Drive (H.D.D.)]]

Revision [17824]

Edited on 2011-09-02 03:12:56 by coolpup [==Also on the Wiki== ~[[InstallationFrugal How to]

Additions:

- Ensure that the target installation partition has **≥350MB free space** available

Deletions:

~~- Ensure that the target installation partition has **>=350MB free space** available~~

Revision [17823]

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~~[[InstallationFrugal]]~~

Revision [17508]

Edited on 2011-08-17 12:37:27 by darkcity [==Also on the Wiki== ~[[InstallationFrugal How to]

Additions:

[[HomePage]] > [[ComponentHowTo Components and HowTos]] > [[InstallationIndex Install]]

Deletions:

~~[[HomePage]] > [[HowToIndex HowTo]] > [[InstallationIndex Install]]~~

Revision [16986]

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Additions:

[[HomePage]] > [[HowToIndex HowTo]] > [[InstallationIndex Install]]

Revision [16193]

Edited on 2011-06-30 02:38:11 by coolpup [==Also on the Wiki== ~[[InstallationFrugal How to]

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How to alter the boot sequence:
==Table of BIOS keys==

Revision [16192]

Edited on 2011-06-29 17:49:32 by darkcity [==Also on the Wiki== ~[[InstallationFrugal How to]

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[[InstallationFrugal]]

Revision [16029]

Edited on 2011-06-26 05:58:34 by darkcity [==Also on the Wiki== ~[[InstallationFrugal How to]

Additions:

==Also see==
[[InstallationFrugal How to Create a Frugal Installation on an Internal or External Hard Disk Drive (H.D.D.)]]
==Appendix - Setting the correct boot sequence==
==Table of BIOS keys==
----
==Categories==
CategoryInstallation

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===How to Create a __[[InstallationFrugal Frugal]]__ Installation on an Internal or External Hard Disk Drive (H.D.D.)===
===Appendix - Setting the correct boot sequence===

Revision [14317]

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Additions:

===Appendix - Setting the correct boot sequence===
How to alter the boot sequence:

Deletions:

===Appendix===
How to change the boot sequence in the B.I.O.S.:

Revision [13024]

Edited on 2011-02-23 07:02:30 by coolpup [==Also on the Wiki== ~[[InstallationFrugal How to]

Additions:

http://www.ph-islands.net/pupinstall/winxp.php

Revision [12321]

Edited on 2011-01-26 10:55:19 by coolpup [==Also on the Wiki== ~[[InstallationFrugal How to]

Additions:

===How to Create a __[[InstallationFrugal Frugal]]__ Installation on an Internal or External Hard Disk Drive (H.D.D.)===

Deletions:

~~===How to Create a __[[InstallationFrugal Frugal]]__ Installation on an Internal Hard Disk Drive (H.D.D.)===~~

Revision [12311]

Edited on 2011-01-25 07:40:21 by coolpup [==Also on the Wiki== ~[[InstallationFrugal How to]

Additions:

===How to Create a __[[InstallationFrugal Frugal]]__ Installation on an Internal Hard Disk Drive (H.D.D.)===

Revision [12309]

Edited on 2011-01-25 07:28:16 by coolpup [==Also on the Wiki== ~[[InstallationFrugal How to]

Additions:

- Ensure that the target installation partition has **>=350MB free space** available

Deletions:

~~- Ensure that the target installation partition has >=350MB free space available~~

Revision [12304]

Edited on 2011-01-25 07:09:44 by coolpup [==Also on the Wiki== ~[[InstallationFrugal How to]

Additions:

- Ensure that the target installation partition has >=350MB free space available

Revision [12107]

Edited on 2011-01-16 08:03:48 by coolpup [==Also on the Wiki== ~[[InstallationFrugal How to]

Additions:

- **__Remove__ the ""LiveDVD/USB"" and re-start the computer __without saving__**

Deletions:

- **Remove the ""LiveDVD/USB"" and re-start the computer __without saving__**

Revision [12106]

Edited on 2011-01-16 08:02:48 by coolpup [==Also on the Wiki== ~[[InstallationFrugal How to]

Additions:

===How to Create a __Full__ Installation on an Internal Hard Disk Drive (H.D.D.)===
- **[[http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=29653 Prepare the H.D.D.]]** (optional) using //Menu > System > [[GParted]]//; after any modifications re-start the computer __without saving__ any changes and with the ""LiveDVD/USB"" connected
- **Remove the ""LiveDVD/USB"" and re-start the computer __without saving__**

Deletions:

===How to Create a Puppy __Full__ Installation on an Internal Hard Disk Drive (H.D.D.)===
- **[[http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=29653 Prepare the H.D.D.]]** (optional) using //Menu > System > [[GParted]]//; after any modifications re-start the computer without saving any changes and with the ""LiveDVD/USB""
- **Remove the ""LiveDVD/USB"" and restart the computer without saving**

Revision [11904]

Edited on 2011-01-07 07:38:46 by coolpup [==Also on the Wiki== ~[[InstallationFrugal How to]

Deletions:

~~http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=29653~~

Revision [11903]

Edited on 2011-01-07 07:37:44 by coolpup [==Also on the Wiki== ~[[InstallationFrugal How to]

Additions:

- **Configure the keyboard, locale & timezone settings** {one is offered to do this either during start-up or immediately after}
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=29653

Deletions:

~~- **[[http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=29653 Configure the keyboard, locale & timezone settings]]** {one is offered to do this either during start-up or immediately after}~~

Revision [11902]

Edited on 2011-01-07 07:35:49 by coolpup [==Also on the Wiki== ~[[InstallationFrugal How to]

Additions:

- **[[http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=29653 Prepare the H.D.D.]]** (optional) using //Menu > System > [[GParted]]//; after any modifications re-start the computer without saving any changes and with the ""LiveDVD/USB""
- **[[http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=29653 Install to H.D.D.]]** using //Menu > System > Puppy Universal Installer//

Deletions:

- **[[http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=29653 Prepare the H.D.D.]]** (optional): using //Menu > System > [[GParted]]//; after any modifications re-start the computer, without saving any changes, with the ""LiveDVD"";
- **[[http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=29653 Install to H.D.D.]]** using: //Menu > System > Puppy Universal Installer//

Revision [11901]

Edited on 2011-01-07 07:32:05 by coolpup [==Also on the Wiki== ~[[InstallationFrugal How to]

Additions:

- **[[http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=29653 Configure the keyboard, locale & timezone settings]]** {one is offered to do this either during start-up or immediately after}
- **[[http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=29653 Prepare the H.D.D.]]** (optional): using //Menu > System > [[GParted]]//; after any modifications re-start the computer, without saving any changes, with the ""LiveDVD"";

Deletions:

- **[[http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=29653 Keyboard, locale & timezone configuration]]**: after booting up follow the on-screen instructions
- **[[http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=29653 H.D.D. preparation]]** (optional): using //Menu > System > [[GParted]]//; after any modifications re-start the computer, without saving any changes, with the ""LiveDVD"";

Revision [11900]

Edited on 2011-01-07 07:28:37 by coolpup [==Also on the Wiki== ~[[InstallationFrugal How to]

Additions:

- **Start the target computer with the ""LiveDVD/USB""**: if the computer does not start/boot from the ""LiveDVD"" it will be necessary to either access a boot menu or the B.I.O.S. so that the computer is instructed to boot with the optical drive or U.S.B. flash memory drive and not any other type of drive; restarting will be necessary in conjunction with using the correct key(s) (see //Appendix// below);
===Appendix===

Deletions:

- **Start the target computer with the ""LiveDVD/USB""**: if the computer does not start/boot from the ""LiveDVD"" it will be necessary to either access a boot menu or the B.I.O.S. so that the computer is instructed to boot with the optical drive or U.S.B. flash memory drive and not any other type of drive; restarting will be necessary in conjunction with using the correct key(s) (see Appendix below);

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Additions:

- **[[http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=29653 Install to H.D.D.]]** using: //Menu > System > Puppy Universal Installer//

Deletions:

~~- **[[http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=29653 Installation to H.D.D.]]**: using //Menu > System > Puppy Universal Installer//~~

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Additions:

===How to Create a Puppy __Full__ Installation on an Internal Hard Disk Drive (H.D.D.)===
- **Start the target computer with the ""LiveDVD/USB""**: if the computer does not start/boot from the ""LiveDVD"" it will be necessary to either access a boot menu or the B.I.O.S. so that the computer is instructed to boot with the optical drive or U.S.B. flash memory drive and not any other type of drive; restarting will be necessary in conjunction with using the correct key(s) (see Appendix below);
- **Remove the ""LiveDVD/USB"" and restart the computer without saving**

Deletions:

===Creating a full Puppy installation on an internal Hard Disk Drive (H.D.D.)===
- **Start the target computer with the ""LiveDVD/USB""**: if the computer does not start/boot from the ""LiveDVD"" it will be necessary to either access a boot menu or the B.I.O.S. so that the computer is instructed to boot with the optical drive and not any other type of drive; restarting will be necessary in conjunction with using the correct key(s) (see Appendix below);
- **Remove the ""LiveDVD"" and restart the computer without saving**

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Additions:

- **Create a LiveDVD or [[InstallationFrugal LiveUSB]]**
- **Start the target computer with the ""LiveDVD/USB""**: if the computer does not start/boot from the ""LiveDVD"" it will be necessary to either access a boot menu or the B.I.O.S. so that the computer is instructed to boot with the optical drive and not any other type of drive; restarting will be necessary in conjunction with using the correct key(s) (see Appendix below);

Deletions:

- **Create a LiveDVD**
- **Start the target computer with the ""LiveDVD""**: if the computer does not start/boot from the ""LiveDVD"" it will be necessary to either access a boot menu or the B.I.O.S. so that the computer is instructed to boot with the optical drive and not any other type of drive; restarting will be necessary in conjunction with using the correct key(s) (see Appendix below);

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Additions:

- **[[http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=29653 H.D.D. preparation]]** (optional): using //Menu > System > [[GParted]]//; after any modifications re-start the computer, without saving any changes, with the ""LiveDVD"";

Deletions:

- **[[http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=29653 H.D.D. preparation]]** (optional): using //Menu > System > GParted//; after any modifications re-start the computer, without saving any changes, with the ""LiveDVD"";

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Additions:

===Creating a full Puppy installation on an internal Hard Disk Drive (H.D.D.)===

Deletions:

~~===Creating a full Puppy installation on Hard Disk Drive (H.D.D.)===~~

Revision [10657]

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Additions:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASZm1aHDh_k
http://www.mygnulinux.com/?p=385
How to change the boot sequence in the B.I.O.S.:

Deletions:

Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASZm1aHDh_k
===References===
===Appendix===
How to change the boot sequence in the BIOS

----
==Categories==
CategoryDocumentation

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Additions:

Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASZm1aHDh_k

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===References===
http://www.arsgeek.com/2006/12/05/installing-puppy-linux-to-your-hard-drive/

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Additions:

- **[[http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=29653 H.D.D. preparation]]** (optional): using //Menu > System > GParted//; after any modifications re-start the computer, without saving any changes, with the ""LiveDVD"";

Deletions:

- **[[http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=29653 H.D.D. preparation]]** (optional): using //Menu > System > GParted//; after any modifications re-start the computer, without saving any changes, using the ""LiveDVD"";

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Additions:

- **[[http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=29653 Keyboard, locale & timezone configuration]]**: after booting up follow the on-screen instructions

Deletions:

~~- **[[http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=29653 Hardware configuration]]**: after booting up follow the on-screen instructions~~

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Additions:

- **[[http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=29653 H.D.D. preparation]]** (optional): using //Menu > System > GParted//; after any modifications re-start the computer, without saving any changes, using the ""LiveDVD"";
CategoryDocumentation

Deletions:

- **[[http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=29653 Drive or partition preparation]]** (optional): using //Menu > System > GParted//; after any modifications re-start the computer, without saving any changes, using the ""LiveDVD"";
CategoryDocumentation

Revision [8683]

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Additions:

- **Start the target computer with the ""LiveDVD""**: if the computer does not start/boot from the ""LiveDVD"" it will be necessary to either access a boot menu or the B.I.O.S. so that the computer is instructed to boot with the optical drive and not any other type of drive; restarting will be necessary in conjunction with using the correct key(s) (see Appendix below);

Deletions:

- **Start the target computer with the ""LiveDVD""**: if the computer does not start/boot from the ""LiveDVD"" it will be necessary to either access a boot menu or the B.I.O.S. so that the computer is instructed to boot with the optical drive and not any other type of drive; restarting will be necessary whilst pressing the correct function key (see Appendix below);

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Additions:

- [[http://www.hiren.info/pages/bios-boot-cdrom hiren.info]]
- [[http://www.whitecanyon.com/how-to-change-boot-order.php whitecanyon.com]]
- [[http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,2845,1785998,00.asp extremetech.com]]
- [[http://www.labtestproject.com/hardware_setting/configure_computer_bios_setup_change_computer_boot_sequence_boot_cd_rom_drive labtestproject.com]]
{{image url="http://www.whitecanyon.com/images-pm/boot-order-enter-bios-keys.gif"}}

Revision [8681]

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Additions:

How to change the boot sequence in the BIOS
- [[http://helpdeskgeek.com/how-to/change-boot-order-xp-vista/ helpdeskgeek.com]]
- [[http://pcsupport.about.com/od/fixtheproblem/ss/bootorderchange.htm pcsupport.about.com]]

Deletions:

~~[[http://helpdeskgeek.com/how-to/change-boot-order-xp-vista/ How to change the boot sequence in the BIOS]]~~

Revision [8679]

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Additions:

- **[[http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=29653 Drive or partition preparation]]** (optional): using //Menu > System > GParted//; after any modifications re-start the computer, without saving any changes, using the ""LiveDVD"";

Deletions:

- **[[http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=29653 Drive or partition preparation]]** (optional): using //Menu > System > GParted//; after any modifications re-start the computer without saving any changes;

Revision [8678]

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Additions:

===Creating a full Puppy installation on Hard Disk Drive (H.D.D.)===
- **[[http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=29653 Installation to H.D.D.]]**: using //Menu > System > Puppy Universal Installer//

Deletions:

~~- **[[http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=29653 Installation]]**: using //Menu > System > Puppy Universal Installer//~~

Revision [8677]

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Additions:

- **[[http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=29653 Hardware configuration]]**: after booting up follow the on-screen instructions
- **[[http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=29653 Drive or partition preparation]]** (optional): using //Menu > System > GParted//; after any modifications re-start the computer without saving any changes;
- **[[http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=29653 Installation]]**: using //Menu > System > Puppy Universal Installer//

Deletions:

- **[[http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=29653 Hardware configuration]]**: follow the on-screen instructions
- **[[http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=29653 Drive or partition preparation]]**: optional but recommended so use //Menu > System > GParted//; next re-start the computer without saving any changes;
- **[[http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=29653 Installation]]**: follow the instructions using //Menu > System > Puppy Universal Installer//

Revision [8676]

Edited on 2010-08-13 07:55:42 by coolpup [==Also on the Wiki== ~[[InstallationFrugal How to]

Additions:

- **Create a LiveDVD**
- **Start the target computer with the ""LiveDVD""**: if the computer does not start/boot from the ""LiveDVD"" it will be necessary to either access a boot menu or the B.I.O.S. so that the computer is instructed to boot with the optical drive and not any other type of drive; restarting will be necessary whilst pressing the correct function key (see Appendix below);
- **[[http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=29653 Drive or partition preparation]]**: optional but recommended so use //Menu > System > GParted//; next re-start the computer without saving any changes;
- **Remove the ""LiveDVD"" and restart the computer without saving**

Deletions:

- **Create LiveDVD**
- **Start the target computer with the LiveDVD**: if the computer does not start/boot from the LiveDVD it will be necessary to either access a boot menu or the B.I.O.S. so that the computer is instructed to boot with the optical drive and not any other type of drive; restarting will be necessary whilst pressing the correct function key (see Appendix below);
- **[[http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=29653 Drive or partition preparation]]**: optional but recommended so go to //Menu > System > GParted//; re-start the computer without saving any changes;
- **Remove the LiveDVD and restart the computer without saving**

Revision [8675]

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Additions:

- **Start the target computer with the LiveDVD**: if the computer does not start/boot from the LiveDVD it will be necessary to either access a boot menu or the B.I.O.S. so that the computer is instructed to boot with the optical drive and not any other type of drive; restarting will be necessary whilst pressing the correct function key (see Appendix below);

Deletions:

- **Start the target computer with the LiveDVD**: if the computer does not start/boot from the LiveDVD it will be necessary to either access a boot menu or the B.I.O.S. so that the computer is instructed to start using the optical drive and not any other drive; restarting will be necessary whilst pressing the correct function key (see Appendix below);

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~~===Summary===~~

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Additions:

- **[[http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=29653 Hardware configuration]]**: follow the on-screen instructions
- **[[http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=29653 Drive or partition preparation]]**: optional but recommended so go to //Menu > System > GParted//; re-start the computer without saving any changes;
- **[[http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=29653 Installation]]**: follow the instructions using //Menu > System > Puppy Universal Installer//

Deletions:

- **Hardware configuration**: follow the on-screen instructions
- **Drive or partition preparation**: optional but recommended so go to //Menu > System > GParted//; re-start the computer without saving any changes;
- **Installation**: follow the instructions using //Menu > System > Puppy Universal Installer//
For those who need pretty pictures: http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=29653

Revision [8672]

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Additions:

- **Start the target computer with the LiveDVD**: if the computer does not start/boot from the LiveDVD it will be necessary to either access a boot menu or the B.I.O.S. so that the computer is instructed to start using the optical drive and not any other drive; restarting will be necessary whilst pressing the correct function key (see Appendix below);
For those who need pretty pictures: http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=29653

Deletions:

- **Start the target computer with the LiveDVD**: if the computer does not start/boot from the LiveDVD it will be necessary to either access a boot menu or the B.I.O.S. Restarting will be necessary whilst pressing the correct function key (see Appendix);
For those who need pretty pictures:
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=29653

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Additions:

===Summary===
- **Create LiveDVD**
- **Start the target computer with the LiveDVD**: if the computer does not start/boot from the LiveDVD it will be necessary to either access a boot menu or the B.I.O.S. Restarting will be necessary whilst pressing the correct function key (see Appendix);
- **Hardware configuration**: follow the on-screen instructions
- **Drive or partition preparation**: optional but recommended so go to //Menu > System > GParted//; re-start the computer without saving any changes;
- **Installation**: follow the instructions using //Menu > System > Puppy Universal Installer//
- **Remove the LiveDVD and restart the computer without saving**
For those who need pretty pictures:
[[http://helpdeskgeek.com/how-to/change-boot-order-xp-vista/ How to change the boot sequence in the BIOS]]

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===Tutorial===
**Note**: The partition you wish to install to needs to be formatted as a linux type (e.g. ext2, ext3, reiserfs, NOT fat32, vfat, ntfs).
0. ""<a href="http://puppylinux.org/main/index.php?file=Download%20Latest%20Release.htm">Download</a>"" and burn Puppy 4.xx to CD (known as the live CD).
1. Place the live CD into target machine's cd-rom. Make sure that the cd-rom is bootable. Change the BIOS settings if necessary.
2. At prompt "boot: " just press Enter.
3. Wait for everything to load up. When it asks for the video mode, choose either. Then choose the language and timezone. (It doesn't really matter.)
4. After less than a minute, the Puppy GUI appears. If using XVESA, select the proper resolution if you want. At this point it doesn't matter either way because it can be changed later.
5. Click **Start** > **Utilities** > **Pdisk**.
6. Click "hda" (assuming that's the harddisk you're installing to).
7. Click cfdisk. **Note**: //**Partitioning removes all data!**//
8. Delete all the partitions you can see. Use simple cursor keys (arrow buttons) to move through the menu.
9. After deleting all the partitions, select "Write partitions".
10. Select "quit".
11. Click **Start** > **Utilities** > **Gparted**.
12. You should see the harddisk as all one single unallocated partition now. Click on the partition.
13. Click the **New** button. Enter the size of the partition ("hda1") you want to use, leaving some space for the Linux swap file. Right click on hda1, go to flags, then check boot.
14. Click on unallocated space again and followed by **New**. Set the size of your swap partition. The file system MUST BE Linux-swap. This is often recommended as twice your RAM quantity, however, the size depends on your computer and how you use it. For details see other resources.
15. Click **Apply**. If you can't see it (which can happen due to the large icons), go through the menu on top and find **Apply**.
16. Follow instructions to start the partitioning.
17. **IMPORTANT STEP!** **//REBOOT!//** Many online sources never state this step which can then cause failed installations. Select **DON'T save changes** when asked.
18. After reboot, you should come back to the boot prompt again. Press Enter, and repeat steps 3 and 4. **DON'T REMOVE CD**.
19a. Format the swap partition as file system Linux swap, type 82. See other sources for details.
19b. Click **Start** > **System** > **Puppy Universal Installer**.
20. Choose the NORMAL install (i.e. option-2 as said in other sources).
21. Click **Install** > **OK**.
22. After some time, the GRUB installation menu will appear. Select "simple" and wait for GRUB to say 'installation successful'. Make sure to select "MBR" when there's the choice.
23. The CD-ROM should have popped open by now. Remove CD now. REBOOT!
24. Grub should come up. Select **Install GRUB to Linux Partition**. Things should all work fine up to now.
25. Select first option, that is, boot into Linux. **Note**: If you receive an error starting wrong VGA resolution like, ignore it and just press **Space**.
The following steps are optional. They will make your computer skip the GRUB menu and boot directly into Puppy. Do this if Puppy is your only OS and you don't want to bother with the GRUB booting menu.
26. Click Home on the desktop. Click parent directory > boot > grub > menu.lst. Click on the eye icon to view hidden files if necessary.
27. Open the menu.lst file.
28. Remove # from the timeout line. Set time limit to whatever you want. I set mine to 0 (zero), so it boots immediately into puppy without pause.
29. Make sure this line "kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda2 ro vga=normal" has "vga=normal". If it's vga=790, it causes the error in step 25.
30. Save and exit. Now REBOOT and test out your installation. It should work just fine!
**Note**: The swap partition must be visible and NOT hidden.

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Additions:

===Tutorial===
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=29653
===Appendix===
CategoryDocumentation

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======Installing Puppy 4.xx To Hard Drive as Only Operating System Checklist======
This is only a checklist for a full-install (option 2). See other sources for details.
For an explanation on partitioning see PartitioningForPuppy.
See also ""<a href="http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=29653">How to do a FULL install of Puppy, to an empty HDD</a>"".
For more on installing Puppy to your hard drive see Installing.
This is for users who want a Puppy full hard drive install and decide to wipe out the old Windows XP or any other operating system (OS). The steps in many sources are rather outdated, which can cause confusion. These are exact steps that worked in an install. These steps are very brief and are meant only as a Checklist. Credits to the sources, especially to HardDiskInstall.
* Steps 20 to 24 may be not be in the proper order. The general guide is just to follow the installation program. Go to the credit link for more information: HardDiskInstall.
=={{color fg="black" bg="yellow" text=" A Beginner's Guide to Installing Puppy (from the Puppy Linux Discussion Forum) "}}==
Many users who discover Puppy eventually want to install it to their hard drives instead of using the Live CD. This will often involve dual-booting the computer along with Windows. Puppy has an installer program located in its Setup menu but the various options can be confusing. This article discusses the decisions you need to make before attempting the installation. If you plan to scrap Windows entirely and set up a dedicated Puppy machine, you will also find useful information here.
Open the Live CD and look at the contents. You will see that the complete operating system is contained in just three compressed files. They are vmlinuz, initrd.gz and pupxxx.sfs. (Older versions of Puppy also used a file named zdrvxxx.sfs.) The first two files contain the code that Puppy uses to get itself started. The third file contains the application software like word processors and web browsers.
=={{color fg="black" bg="yellow" text=" Decision #1 "}}==
What kind of installation method will you choose? There are two choices. A traditional full install extracts all the individual files from the three core files on the CD and copies them to your hard drive. You end up with many files and folders, like you have in a Windows setup.
A frugal install just copies the three files from the CD to your hard drive as they are. Each method has its own advantages, which we won't discuss now. For beginners, a frugal install is easiest - simply because it duplicates the way that the Live CD works. (A more detailed comparison of full versus frugal is provided at the end of this document.)
The exception to the above rule is an old computer with limited memory (64 MB or less). It will work better with a full install. On the other hand, you may be disappointed with Puppy's performance on such a low-end machine.
=={{color fg="black" bg="yellow" text=" Decision #2 "}}==
Where will you install the files on your computer? A hard drive can be split into several independent regions called partitions. Clearly, the safest place to install Puppy is in its own partition where it can never touch your Windows setup. However, this involves shrinking your Windows partition to provide the necessary space. Most newcomers are nervous about doing this.
Tools like the [[http://partedmagic.com/wiki/PartedMagic.php Parted Magic Live CD]] can reliably repartition your hard drive. Or you can use the Gparted program on the Puppy Live CD. But there are risks, especially if your Windows installation has some underlying corruption. Because there is a learning curve to using a partitioning program, you might not want to practice on your best Windows machine. Also, see the notes at the end.
You can use a separate partition to hold either a full or frugal install. A few GB of space will be plenty for a frugal setup. You must also decide how to format it. For a frugal install, the ext2 filesystem will be fine.
Unless your machine has lots of memory (512 MB or more), you should also consider making a swap partition. A good rule of thumb would be to add enough swap to bring your total memory up to 512 MB. You can use the Linux "free" command to check how much memory you have in play.
If you are not comfortable repartitioning your hard drive, Puppy has an alternative. Stay with one partition, do a frugal install and put the Puppy files inside Windows. For example, the first core file would then become c:\vmlinuz. This is known as a "coexist" install.
In the old days of Windows 98 and FAT32, a coexist setup was the easiest method for beginners. However, since NTFS has become the standard filesystem format for Windows, this may no longer be true. There are some reports that if Puppy crashes, it can also damage Windows. But many users are running Puppy this way without incident. So you need to choose between two small risks - corrupting Windows during a drive repartition or corrupting it as a side effect of Puppy failing.
=={{color fg="black" bg="yellow" text=" Decision #3 "}}==
How do you want your computer to boot? When your machine powers up, it needs to select one of its partitions from which to load an operating system. This requires a bit of code called a bootloader, located at the root of your hard drive in the Master Boot Record.
All hard drives that have Windows installed contain a standard block of code in their MBR. If this code gets altered, Windows may refuse to boot even though its actual files are OK. This can be a frightening situation, but is easy to repair. Do some research on the WinXP Recovery Console and its "fixmbr" command. [[http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?search_id=1691645923&t=16950 Also look here]] for the "fixmbr" download. Vista users should read [[http://neosmart.net/blog/2008/windows-vista-recovery-disc-download/ here.]]
This is a crucial issue because Puppy uses its own bootloader, GRUB. You have to pick one or the other as the primary bootloader for your computer.
Now for the decision. Do you want to continue using Windows as the primary bootloader? If so, you will need to modify Windows so it presents a startup menu that includes Puppy as one of the options. The Puppy Universal Installer (PUI) cannot set this up because you need to make the changes from inside Windows. There is an on-line tutorial called the Lin'N'Win Project that will do the job. [[http://www.icpug.org.uk/national/linnwin/step00-linnwin.htm Find it here]].
Or do you want Puppy to be the primary bootloader? This will involve installing GRUB, which Puppy can do automatically. Windows will now run as an option from the GRUB boot menu. However, because GRUB is a Linux product, this will only work if you have installed Puppy into its own partition. And the partition must be formatted using a Linux-compatible filesystem such as ext2.
The PUI will refuse to install GRUB in a FAT or NTFS partition, because it assumes that the partition contains Windows. Watch for the cryptic error message "This partition is not Linux".
Now we get to the MBR issue. The quickest out-of-the-box solution is to install GRUB on the MBR of your hard drive. The PUI will warn you about the dangers. But this is only an issue if you want to return your machine to a Windows-only setup in the future. In which case, you would simply run the "fixmbr" procedure.
In a multi-partition setup, you should NEVER have to reinstall Windows just because there was a problem with Puppy. Unless you did something really stupid.
At this point, a short GRUB tutorial might be helpful. GRUB has two parts - stage1 and stage2. Stage1 is the small block of boot code that gets written onto the MBR. Stage2 is the collection of support files that are stored in the folder /boot/grub on the Linux partition. That is also where the GRUB menu file, menu.lst, is located.
This should explain what can go wrong with a dual-boot system. Suppose that your Linux install gets damaged or you decide to delete it completely. If your /boot/grub folder has disappeared, the stage1 code in the MBR won't be able to find its stage2 files. Your computer will refuse to boot, even to Windows. But now you know how to fix this by restoring the MBR.
If you are still nervous about changing your MBR, you can modify the Lin'n'Win technique to boot Puppy off a different partition. Or you can have the PUI write GRUB's stage1 to a floppy boot disk. Or you can do the frugal install manually and use a [[http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=16950 boot CD]] to launch it. In that case, you could even put Puppy in a logical FAT partition which would be sharable with Windows. Or you could avoid the entire issue by installing Puppy onto a USB flash drive.
=={{color fg="black" bg="yellow" text="Full versus Frugal "}}==
When you do a full install, all of the data in the core Puppy files is extracted from the CD into a filesystem on your hard drive. Any software you install or files you save are added to the filesystem, so the total number of files and folders gradually increases.
In a frugal install, Puppy creates another file named pup_save.2fs. When you boot up, the filesystem stored in the core Puppy files is loaded into memory, but remains read-only. The pupsave file is used to hold all the new stuff you add. These two are merged together so it appears that you are working with a single filesystem. You get the effect of a full install while Puppy is running, but all you actually see on your hard drive are the core files and the pupsave.
The main advantage of a frugal install is that you always boot with pristine copies of the core Puppy files. If your install gets corrupted, it's just a matter of restoring the single pupsave file from a backup copy.
But what if your pupsave file gets filled up? Puppy has a utility for increasing its size. Or you can store content on your hard drive outside of the savefile, like you would with a full install.
Another advantage is the ability to put a frugal install almost anywhere. You can even stick it inside a full install of Puppy or another Linux. Or you can have multiple frugal installs in the same partition.
Whether you use full or frugal, Puppy's GRUB install procedure can be a bit confusing. However it's easy to install GRUB manually. Read [[http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=16950 here]] and get the "grub-install" package.

=={{color fg="black" bg="yellow" text="Puppy and Other Linux Partitioning Tools"}}==
There are certain advantages to using a stand alone product like the Parted Magic CD to reformat a drive. For example, it will contain the latest NTFS drivers if you need to shrink Windows. However this tool, or the partitioning programs in some other Linux's, can have a major side effect on Puppy. Read [[http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=262324#262324 this thread]] regarding inode sizes in ext partitions.
=={{color fg="black" bg="yellow" text="Vista and Linux"}}==
There have been reports that Vista can be corrupted if a user tries to shrink the Windows partition using Linux tools. A safer procedure is to use Vista's own Disk Management tool, then create the new partitions using Linux. If you want to keep Vista as the primary bootloader, look at Easy BCD [[http://neosmart.net/wiki/display/EBCD/EasyBCD+Documentation+Home;jsessionid=4CDEDEBD199D7577A170EDA271A0B04A
here.]]
""<b>Source: <a href="http://murga-linux.com/puppy/index.php?f=2&sid=f08768d0ed55119a7f643195a2c8b230">Beginners Help - Puppy Linux Discussion Forum</a></b>""
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0. ""<a href="http://puppylinux.org/main/index.php?file=Download%20Latest%20Release.htm">Download</a>"" and burn Puppy 4.xx to CD (known as the live CD).
14. Click on unallocated space again and followed by **New**. Set the size of your swap partition. The file system MUST BE Linux-swap. This is often recommended as twice your RAM quantity, however, the size depends on your computer and how you use it. For details see other resources.
23. The CD-ROM should have popped open by now. Remove CD now. REBOOT!

Deletions:

0. Download and burn puppy 4.xx to CD (known as the live CD).
14. Click on unallocated space again and followed by **New**. Set the size of your swap partition. The file system MUST BE linux-swap. This is often recomended as twice your RAM quantity, however, the size depends on your computer and how you use it. For details see other resources.
23. The cd-rom should have popped open by now. Remove CD now. REBOOT!

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Edited on 2009-12-05 10:33:56 by spongedaddy [==Also on the Wiki== ~[[InstallationFrugal How to]

Additions:

======Installing Puppy 4.xx To Hard Drive as Only Operating System Checklist======
See also ""<a href="http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=29653">How to do a FULL install of Puppy, to an empty HDD</a>"".
* Steps 20 to 24 may be not be in the proper order. The general guide is just to follow the installation program. Go to the credit link for more information: HardDiskInstall.

Deletions:

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=29653
Installing Puppy 4.xx To Hard Drive as Only Operating System Checklist
* Steps 20 to 24 may be not be in the proper order. The general guide is just to follow the installation program. Go to the credit link for more information: [url]
http://puppylinux.org/wikka/HardDiskInstall∞ [/url] *

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Edited on 2009-12-05 10:24:16 by spongedaddy [some formatting and wording updates]

Additions:

For an explanation on partitioning see PartitioningForPuppy.
For more on installing Puppy to your hard drive see Installing.
This is for users who want a Puppy full hard drive install and decide to wipe out the old Windows XP or any other operating system (OS). The steps in many sources are rather outdated, which can cause confusion. These are exact steps that worked in an install. These steps are very brief and are meant only as a Checklist. Credits to the sources, especially to HardDiskInstall.
**Note**: The partition you wish to install to needs to be formatted as a linux type (e.g. ext2, ext3, reiserfs, NOT fat32, vfat, ntfs).
0. Download and burn puppy 4.xx to CD (known as the live CD).
1. Place the live CD into target machine's cd-rom. Make sure that the cd-rom is bootable. Change the BIOS settings if necessary.
2. At prompt "boot: " just press Enter.
3. Wait for everything to load up. When it asks for the video mode, choose either. Then choose the language and timezone. (It doesn't really matter.)
4. After less than a minute, the Puppy GUI appears. If using XVESA, select the proper resolution if you want. At this point it doesn't matter either way because it can be changed later.
5. Click **Start** > **Utilities** > **Pdisk**.
6. Click "hda" (assuming that's the harddisk you're installing to).
7. Click cfdisk. **Note**: //**Partitioning removes all data!**//
8. Delete all the partitions you can see. Use simple cursor keys (arrow buttons) to move through the menu.
11. Click **Start** > **Utilities** > **Gparted**.
13. Click the **New** button. Enter the size of the partition ("hda1") you want to use, leaving some space for the Linux swap file. Right click on hda1, go to flags, then check boot.
14. Click on unallocated space again and followed by **New**. Set the size of your swap partition. The file system MUST BE linux-swap. This is often recomended as twice your RAM quantity, however, the size depends on your computer and how you use it. For details see other resources.
15. Click **Apply**. If you can't see it (which can happen due to the large icons), go through the menu on top and find **Apply**.
17. **IMPORTANT STEP!** **//REBOOT!//** Many online sources never state this step which can then cause failed installations. Select **DON'T save changes** when asked.
18. After reboot, you should come back to the boot prompt again. Press Enter, and repeat steps 3 and 4. **DON'T REMOVE CD**.
19a. Format the swap partition as file system Linux swap, type 82. See other sources for details.
19b. Click **Start** > **System** > **Puppy Universal Installer**.
* Steps 20 to 24 may be not be in the proper order. The general guide is just to follow the installation program. Go to the credit link for more information: [url]
21. Click **Install** > **OK**.
23. The cd-rom should have popped open by now. Remove CD now. REBOOT!
24. Grub should come up. Select **Install GRUB to Linux Partition**. Things should all work fine up to now.
25. Select first option, that is, boot into Linux. **Note**: If you receive an error starting wrong VGA resolution like, ignore it and just press **Space**.
26. Click Home on the desktop. Click parent directory > boot > grub > menu.lst. Click on the eye icon to view hidden files if necessary.
29. Make sure this line "kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda2 ro vga=normal" has "vga=normal". If it's vga=790, it causes the error in step 25.
30. Save and exit. Now REBOOT and test out your installation. It should work just fine!
**Note**: The swap partition must be visible and NOT hidden.
Many users who discover Puppy eventually want to install it to their hard drives instead of using the Live CD. This will often involve dual-booting the computer along with Windows. Puppy has an installer program located in its Setup menu but the various options can be confusing. This article discusses the decisions you need to make before attempting the installation. If you plan to scrap Windows entirely and set up a dedicated Puppy machine, you will also find useful information here.
Open the Live CD and look at the contents. You will see that the complete operating system is contained in just three compressed files. They are vmlinuz, initrd.gz and pupxxx.sfs. (Older versions of Puppy also used a file named zdrvxxx.sfs.) The first two files contain the code that Puppy uses to get itself started. The third file contains the application software like word processors and web browsers.
What kind of installation method will you choose? There are two choices. A traditional full install extracts all the individual files from the three core files on the CD and copies them to your hard drive. You end up with many files and folders, like you have in a Windows setup.
A frugal install just copies the three files from the CD to your hard drive as they are. Each method has its own advantages, which we won't discuss now. For beginners, a frugal install is easiest - simply because it duplicates the way that the Live CD works. (A more detailed comparison of full versus frugal is provided at the end of this document.)
The exception to the above rule is an old computer with limited memory (64 MB or less). It will work better with a full install. On the other hand, you may be disappointed with Puppy's performance on such a low-end machine.
Where will you install the files on your computer? A hard drive can be split into several independent regions called partitions. Clearly, the safest place to install Puppy is in its own partition where it can never touch your Windows setup. However, this involves shrinking your Windows partition to provide the necessary space. Most newcomers are nervous about doing this.
Tools like the [[http://partedmagic.com/wiki/PartedMagic.php Parted Magic Live CD]] can reliably repartition your hard drive. Or you can use the Gparted program on the Puppy Live CD. But there are risks, especially if your Windows installation has some underlying corruption. Because there is a learning curve to using a partitioning program, you might not want to practice on your best Windows machine. Also, see the notes at the end.
You can use a separate partition to hold either a full or frugal install. A few GB of space will be plenty for a frugal setup. You must also decide how to format it. For a frugal install, the ext2 filesystem will be fine.
Unless your machine has lots of memory (512 MB or more), you should also consider making a swap partition. A good rule of thumb would be to add enough swap to bring your total memory up to 512 MB. You can use the Linux "free" command to check how much memory you have in play.
If you are not comfortable repartitioning your hard drive, Puppy has an alternative. Stay with one partition, do a frugal install and put the Puppy files inside Windows. For example, the first core file would then become c:\vmlinuz. This is known as a "coexist" install.
In the old days of Windows 98 and FAT32, a coexist setup was the easiest method for beginners. However, since NTFS has become the standard filesystem format for Windows, this may no longer be true. There are some reports that if Puppy crashes, it can also damage Windows. But many users are running Puppy this way without incident. So you need to choose between two small risks - corrupting Windows during a drive repartition or corrupting it as a side effect of Puppy failing.
How do you want your computer to boot? When your machine powers up, it needs to select one of its partitions from which to load an operating system. This requires a bit of code called a bootloader, located at the root of your hard drive in the Master Boot Record.
All hard drives that have Windows installed contain a standard block of code in their MBR. If this code gets altered, Windows may refuse to boot even though its actual files are OK. This can be a frightening situation, but is easy to repair. Do some research on the WinXP Recovery Console and its "fixmbr" command. [[http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?search_id=1691645923&t=16950 Also look here]] for the "fixmbr" download. Vista users should read [[http://neosmart.net/blog/2008/windows-vista-recovery-disc-download/ here.]]
This is a crucial issue because Puppy uses its own bootloader, GRUB. You have to pick one or the other as the primary bootloader for your computer.
Now for the decision. Do you want to continue using Windows as the primary bootloader? If so, you will need to modify Windows so it presents a startup menu that includes Puppy as one of the options. The Puppy Universal Installer (PUI) cannot set this up because you need to make the changes from inside Windows. There is an on-line tutorial called the Lin'N'Win Project that will do the job. [[http://www.icpug.org.uk/national/linnwin/step00-linnwin.htm Find it here]].
Or do you want Puppy to be the primary bootloader? This will involve installing GRUB, which Puppy can do automatically. Windows will now run as an option from the GRUB boot menu. However, because GRUB is a Linux product, this will only work if you have installed Puppy into its own partition. And the partition must be formatted using a Linux-compatible filesystem such as ext2.
The PUI will refuse to install GRUB in a FAT or NTFS partition, because it assumes that the partition contains Windows. Watch for the cryptic error message "This partition is not Linux".
Now we get to the MBR issue. The quickest out-of-the-box solution is to install GRUB on the MBR of your hard drive. The PUI will warn you about the dangers. But this is only an issue if you want to return your machine to a Windows-only setup in the future. In which case, you would simply run the "fixmbr" procedure.
In a multi-partition setup, you should NEVER have to reinstall Windows just because there was a problem with Puppy. Unless you did something really stupid.
At this point, a short GRUB tutorial might be helpful. GRUB has two parts - stage1 and stage2. Stage1 is the small block of boot code that gets written onto the MBR. Stage2 is the collection of support files that are stored in the folder /boot/grub on the Linux partition. That is also where the GRUB menu file, menu.lst, is located.
This should explain what can go wrong with a dual-boot system. Suppose that your Linux install gets damaged or you decide to delete it completely. If your /boot/grub folder has disappeared, the stage1 code in the MBR won't be able to find its stage2 files. Your computer will refuse to boot, even to Windows. But now you know how to fix this by restoring the MBR.
If you are still nervous about changing your MBR, you can modify the Lin'n'Win technique to boot Puppy off a different partition. Or you can have the PUI write GRUB's stage1 to a floppy boot disk. Or you can do the frugal install manually and use a [[http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=16950 boot CD]] to launch it. In that case, you could even put Puppy in a logical FAT partition which would be sharable with Windows. Or you could avoid the entire issue by installing Puppy onto a USB flash drive.
When you do a full install, all of the data in the core Puppy files is extracted from the CD into a filesystem on your hard drive. Any software you install or files you save are added to the filesystem, so the total number of files and folders gradually increases.
In a frugal install, Puppy creates another file named pup_save.2fs. When you boot up, the filesystem stored in the core Puppy files is loaded into memory, but remains read-only. The pupsave file is used to hold all the new stuff you add. These two are merged together so it appears that you are working with a single filesystem. You get the effect of a full install while Puppy is running, but all you actually see on your hard drive are the core files and the pupsave.
The main advantage of a frugal install is that you always boot with pristine copies of the core Puppy files. If your install gets corrupted, it's just a matter of restoring the single pupsave file from a backup copy.
But what if your pupsave file gets filled up? Puppy has a utility for increasing its size. Or you can store content on your hard drive outside of the savefile, like you would with a full install.
Another advantage is the ability to put a frugal install almost anywhere. You can even stick it inside a full install of Puppy or another Linux. Or you can have multiple frugal installs in the same partition.
Whether you use full or frugal, Puppy's GRUB install procedure can be a bit confusing. However it's easy to install GRUB manually. Read [[http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=16950 here]] and get the "grub-install" package.
There are certain advantages to using a stand alone product like the Parted Magic CD to reformat a drive. For example, it will contain the latest NTFS drivers if you need to shrink Windows. However this tool, or the partitioning programs in some other Linux's, can have a major side effect on Puppy. Read [[http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=262324#262324 this thread]] regarding inode sizes in ext partitions.
There have been reports that Vista can be corrupted if a user tries to shrink the Windows partition using Linux tools. A safer procedure is to use Vista's own Disk Management tool, then create the new partitions using Linux. If you want to keep Vista as the primary bootloader, look at Easy BCD [[http://neosmart.net/wiki/display/EBCD/EasyBCD+Documentation+Home;jsessionid=4CDEDEBD199D7577A170EDA271A0B04A
""<b>Source: <a href="http://murga-linux.com/puppy/index.php?f=2&sid=f08768d0ed55119a7f643195a2c8b230">Beginners Help - Puppy Linux Discussion Forum</a></b>""

Deletions:

For an explanation on partitioning see PartitioningForPuppy
For more on installing Puppy to your hard drive see Installing
This is for users who want a Puppy full hard drive install and decide to wipe out the old windows xp, or any other operating system (OS). The steps in many sources are rather outdated, which can cause confusion. These are exact steps that worked in an install. These steps are very brief and are meant only as a Checklist.Credits to the sources, esp to HardDiskInstall
note: The partition you wish to install to needs to be formatted as a linux type (e.g. ext2, ext3, reiserfs, NOT fat32, vfat, ntfs)
0. Download and burn puppy 4.xx to cd (known as live cd)
1. Pop live cd into target machine's cd-rom. make sure that the cd-rom is bootable (check bios settings if necessary).
2. At prompt "boot: " just press enter.
3. Wait for everything to load up, and when it asks for your video mode, choose either. Then choose your language and timezone. (It doesn't really matter.)
4. After less than a minute, you should be in Puppy GUI now. If using XVESA, select the proper resolution if you want. At this point it doesn't matter either way because it can be changed later.
5. Click start->utilities->Pdisk.
6. Click "hda" (assuming that's the harddisk you're installing to)
7. Click cfdisk. *note: partitioning removes all data!*
8. DELETE all the partitions you can see. Use simple cursor keys (arrow buttons) to move through the menu.
11. Click start->utilities->Gparted
13. Click the "New" button. Enter the size of the partition ("hda1") you want to use, leaving some space for the linux swap file. Right click on hda1, go to flags, then check boot.
14. Click on unallocated space again and followed by "New". now set the size of your swap partition. The file system MUST BE linux-swap. This is often recomended as twice your RAM quantity, however, the size depends on your computer and how you use it. For details see other resources.
15. Click "Apply" button. If you can't see it (which can happen due to the large icons), go through the menu on top and find "Apply".
17. IMPORTANT STEP! REBOOT! Many online sources never state this step which can then cause failed installations. Select 'DON'T save changes' when asked.
18. After reboot, you should come back to the boot prompt again. Press enter and repeat steps 3 and 4. * DON'T REMOVE CD *
19a. Format the swap partition as file system linux swap, type 82. See other sources for details.
19b. Click Start-> System-> Puppy Universal Installer.
* steps 20 to 24 may be not be in the proper order. The general guide is just to follow the installation program. Go to the credit link for more information: [url]
21. Click "Install", then ok.
23. The cd-rom should have popped open by now. remove cd now. REBOOT!
24. Grub should come up. Select 'Install GRUB to Linux Partition'. Things should all work fine up to now.
25. Select first option, that is, boot into linux. *note: if you receive an error starting wrong vga resolution like, ignore it and just press space*
26. Click Home on the desktop. Click parent directory->boot->grub->menu.lst. Click on the eye icon to view hidden files if necessary.
29. Make sure this line "kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda2 ro vga=normal" has "vga=normal". if it's vga=790, it causes the error in step 25.
30. Save and exit. now REBOOT and test out your installation. it should work just fine!
Notes: The swap partition must be visible and NOT hidden.
Many users who discover Puppy eventually want to install it to their hard drives instead of using the Live CD. This will often involve dual-booting the computer along with Windows. Puppy has an installer program located in its Setup menu but the various options can be confusing. This article discusses the decisions you need to make before attempting the installation. If you plan to scrap Windows entirely and set up a dedicated Puppy machine, you will also find useful information here.
Open the Live CD and look at the contents. You will see that the complete operating system is contained in just three compressed files. They are vmlinuz, initrd.gz and pupxxx.sfs. (Older versions of Puppy also used a file named zdrvxxx.sfs.) The first two files contain the code that Puppy uses to get itself started. The third file contains the application software like word processors and web browsers.
What kind of installation method will you choose? There are two choices. A traditional full install extracts all the individual files from the three core files on the CD and copies them to your hard drive. You end up with many files and folders, like you have in a Windows setup.
A frugal install just copies the three files from the CD to your hard drive as they are. Each method has its own advantages, which we won't discuss now. For beginners, a frugal install is easiest - simply because it duplicates the way that the Live CD works. (A more detailed comparison of full versus frugal is provided at the end of this document.)
The exception to the above rule is an old computer with limited memory (64 MB or less). It will work better with a full install. On the other hand, you may be disappointed with Puppy's performance on such a low-end machine.
Where will you install the files on your computer? A hard drive can be split into several independent regions called partitions. Clearly, the safest place to install Puppy is in its own partition where it can never touch your Windows setup. However, this involves shrinking your Windows partition to provide the necessary space. Most newcomers are nervous about doing this. Tools like the [[http://partedmagic.com/wiki/PartedMagic.php Parted Magic Live CD]] can reliably repartition your hard drive. Or you can use the Gparted program on the Puppy Live CD. But there are risks, especially if your Windows installation has some underlying corruption. And because there is a learning curve to using a partitioning program, you might not want to practice on your best Windows machine. Also, see the notes at the end.
You can use a separate partition to hold either a full or frugal install. A few GB of space will be plenty for a frugal setup. You must also decide how to format it. For a frugal install, the ext2 filesystem will be fine.
Unless your machine has lots of memory (512 MB or more), you should also consider making a swap partition. A good rule of thumb would be to add enough swap to bring your total memory up to 512 MB. You can use the Linux "free" command to check how much memory you have in play.

If you are not comfortable repartitioning your hard drive, Puppy has an alternative. Stay with one partition, do a frugal install and put the Puppy files inside Windows. For example, the first core file would then become c:\vmlinuz. This is known as a "coexist" install.
In the old days of Windows 98 and FAT32, a coexist setup was the easiest method for beginners. However, since NTFS has become the standard filesystem format for Windows, this may no longer be true. There are some reports that if Puppy crashes, it can also damage Windows. But many users are running Puppy this way without incident. So you need to choose between two small risks - corrupting Windows during a drive repartition or corrupting it as a side effect of Puppy failing.
How do you want your computer to boot? When your machine powers up, it needs to select one of its partitions from which to load an operating system. This requires a bit of code called a bootloader, located at the root of your hard drive in the Master Boot Record.
All hard drives that have Windows installed contain a standard block of code in their MBR. If this code gets altered, Windows may refuse to boot even though its actual files are OK. This can be a frightening situation, but is easy to repair. Do some research on the WinXP Recovery Console and its "fixmbr" command. [[http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?search_id=1691645923&t=16950 Also look here]] for the "fixmbr" download. Vista users should read [[http://neosmart.net/blog/2008/windows-vista-recovery-disc-download/ here.]]
This is a crucial issue because Puppy uses its own bootloader, GRUB. You have to pick one or the other as the primary bootloader for your computer.
Now for the decision. Do you want to continue using Windows as the primary bootloader? If so, you will need to modify Windows so it presents a startup menu that includes Puppy as one of the options. The Puppy Universal Installer (PUI) cannot set this up because you need to make the changes from inside Windows. There is an on-line tutorial called the Lin'N'Win Project that will do the job. [[http://www.icpug.org.uk/national/linnwin/step00-linnwin.htm Find it here]]
Or do you want Puppy to be the primary bootloader? This will involve installing GRUB, which Puppy can do automatically. Windows will now run as an option from the GRUB boot menu. However, because GRUB is a Linux product, this will only work if you have installed Puppy into its own partition. And the partition must be formatted using a Linux-compatible filesystem such as ext2.
The PUI will refuse to install GRUB in a FAT or NTFS partition, because it assumes that the partition contains Windows. Watch for the cryptic error message "This partition is not Linux".
Now we get to the MBR issue. The quickest out-of-the-box solution is to install GRUB on the MBR of your hard drive. The PUI will warn you about the dangers. But this is only an issue if you want to return your machine to a Windows-only setup in the future. In which case, you would simply run the "fixmbr" procedure.

In a multi-partition setup, you should NEVER have to reinstall Windows just because there was a problem with Puppy. Unless you did something really stupid.
At this point, a short GRUB tutorial might be helpful. GRUB has two parts - stage1 and stage2. Stage1 is the small block of boot code that gets written onto the MBR. Stage2 is the collection of support files that are stored in the folder /boot/grub on the Linux partition. That is also where the GRUB menu file, menu.lst, is located.
This should explain what can go wrong with a dual-boot system. Suppose that your Linux install gets damaged or you decide to delete it completely. If your /boot/grub folder has disappeared, the stage1 code in the MBR won't be able to find its stage2 files. Your computer will refuse to boot, even to Windows. But now you know how to fix this by restoring the MBR.
If you are still nervous about changing your MBR, you can modify the Lin'n'Win technique to boot Puppy off a different partition. Or you can have the PUI write GRUB's stage1 to a floppy boot disk. Or you can do the frugal install manually and use a [[http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=16950 boot CD]] to launch it. In that case, you could even put Puppy in a logical FAT partition which would be sharable with Windows. Or you could avoid the entire issue by installing Puppy onto a USB flash drive.
When you do a full install, all of the data in the core Puppy files is extracted from the CD into a filesystem on your hard drive. Any software you install or files you save are added to the filesystem, so the total number of files and folders gradually increases.
In a frugal install, Puppy creates another file named pup_save.2fs. When you boot up, the filesystem stored in the core Puppy files is loaded into memory, but remains read-only. The pupsave file is used to hold all the new stuff you add. These two are merged together so it appears that you are working with a single filesystem. You get the effect of a full install while Puppy is running, but all you actually see on your hard drive are the core files and the pupsave.
The main advantage of a frugal install is that you always boot with pristine copies of the core Puppy files. If your install gets corrupted, it's just a matter of restoring the single pupsave file from a backup copy.
But what if your pupsave file gets filled up? Puppy has a utility for increasing its size. Or you can store content on your hard drive outside of the savefile, like you would with a full install.
Another advantage is the ability to put a frugal install almost anywhere. You can even stick it inside a full install of Puppy or another Linux. Or you can have multiple frugal installs in the same partition.
Whether you use full or frugal, Puppy's GRUB install procedure can be a bit confusing. However it's easy to install GRUB manually. Read [[http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=16950 here]] and get the "grub-install" package.
There are certain advantages to using a stand alone product like the Parted Magic CD to reformat a drive. For example, it will contain the latest NTFS drivers if you need to shrink Windows. However this tool, or the partitioning programs in some other Linux's, can have a major side effect on Puppy. Read [[http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=262324#262324 this thread]] regarding inode sizes in ext partitions.
There have been reports that Vista can be corrupted if a user tries to shrink the Windows partition using Linux tools. A safer procedure is to use Vista's own Disk Management tool, then create the new partitions using Linux. If you want to keep Vista as the primary bootloader, look at Easy BCD [[http://neosmart.net/wiki/display/EBCD/EasyBCD+Documentation+Home;jsessionid=4CDEDEBD199D7577A170EDA271A0B04A
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Installing Puppy 4.xx To Hard Drive as Only Operating System Checklist
0. Download and burn puppy 4.xx to cd (known as live cd)
2. At prompt "boot: " just press enter.
3. Wait for everything to load up, and when it asks for your video mode, choose either. Then choose your language and timezone. (It doesn't really matter.)
8. DELETE all the partitions you can see. Use simple cursor keys (arrow buttons) to move through the menu.
13. Click the "New" button. Enter the size of the partition ("hda1") you want to use, leaving some space for the linux swap file. Right click on hda1, go to flags, then check boot.
21. Click "Install", then ok.
Notes: The swap partition must be visible and NOT hidden.

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Installing Puppy 2.xx (2.13) To Hard Drive as Only Operating System Checklist
0. Download and burn puppy 2.13 to cd (known as live cd)
2. At prompt "boot: " either wait or press enter.
3. Select keyboard="us", video="xvesa" (or xorg). it doesn't matter at this stage.
8. DELETE all the partitions you can see. Use simple cursor keys (arrow buttons) to move thru the menu.
13. Click the "New" button. Enter the size of the partition ("hda1") you want to use, leaving some space for the linux swap file.
21. Click "install to hda1".
Notes: The linux-swap may be either primary or extended. It may be better to have extended since these are not hiden by default at boot time under any OS. The swap partition must be visible and NOT hidden.

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Installing Puppy 2.xx (2.13) To Hard Drive as Only Operating System Checklist

This is only a checklist for a full-install (option 2). See other sources for details.
For an explanation on partitioning see PartitioningForPuppy
For more on installing Puppy to your hard drive see Installing

This is for users who want a Puppy full hard drive install and decide to wipe out the old windows xp, or any other operating system (OS). The steps in many sources are rather outdated, which can cause confusion. These are exact steps that worked in an install. These steps are very brief and are meant only as a Checklist.Credits to the sources, esp to HardDiskInstall
note: The partition you wish to install to needs to be formatted as a linux type (e.g. ext2, ext3, reiserfs, NOT fat32, vfat, ntfs)

0. Download and burn puppy 2.13 to cd (known as live cd)
1. Pop live cd into target machine's cd-rom. make sure that the cd-rom is bootable (check bios settings if necessary).
2. At prompt "boot: " either wait or press enter.
3. Select keyboard="us", video="xvesa" (or xorg). it doesn't matter at this stage.
4. After less than a minute, you should be in Puppy GUI now. If using XVESA, select the proper resolution if you want. At this point it doesn't matter either way because it can be changed later.
5. Click start->utilities->Pdisk.
6. Click "hda" (assuming that's the harddisk you're installing to)
7. Click cfdisk. *note: partitioning removes all data!*
8. DELETE all the partitions you can see. Use simple cursor keys (arrow buttons) to move thru the menu.
9. After deleting all the partitions, select "Write partitions".
10. Select "quit".
11. Click start->utilities->Gparted
12. You should see the harddisk as all one single unallocated partition now. Click on the partition.
13. Click the "New" button. Enter the size of the partition ("hda1") you want to use, leaving some space for the linux swap file.
14. Click on unallocated space again and followed by "New". now set the size of your swap partition. The file system MUST BE linux-swap. This is often recomended as twice your RAM quantity, however, the size depends on your computer and how you use it. For details see other resources.
15. Click "Apply" button. If you can't see it (which can happen due to the large icons), go through the menu on top and find "Apply".
16. Follow instructions to start the partitioning.
17. IMPORTANT STEP! REBOOT! Many online sources never state this step which can then cause failed installations. Select 'DON'T save changes' when asked.
18. After reboot, you should come back to the boot prompt again. Press enter and repeat steps 3 and 4. * DON'T REMOVE CD *
19a. Format the swap partition as file system linux swap, type 82. See other sources for details.
19b. Click Start-> System-> Puppy Universal Installer.

* steps 20 to 24 may be not be in the proper order. The general guide is just to follow the installation program. Go to the credit link for more information: [url]
http://puppylinux.org/wikka/HardDiskInstall∞ [/url] *

20. Choose the NORMAL install (i.e. option-2 as said in other sources).
21. Click "install to hda1".
22. After some time, the GRUB installation menu will appear. Select "simple" and wait for GRUB to say 'installation successful'. Make sure to select "MBR" when there's the choice.
23. The cd-rom should have popped open by now. remove cd now. REBOOT!
24. Grub should come up. Select 'Install GRUB to Linux Partition'. Things should all work fine up to now.
25. Select first option, that is, boot into linux. *note: if you receive an error starting wrong vga resolution like, ignore it and just press space*

The following steps are optional. They will make your computer skip the GRUB menu and boot directly into Puppy. Do this if Puppy is your only OS and you don't want to bother with the GRUB booting menu.
26. Click Home on the desktop. Click parent directory->boot->grub->menu.lst. Click on the eye icon to view hidden files if necessary.
27. Open the menu.lst file.
28. Remove # from the timeout line. Set time limit to whatever you want. I set mine to 0 (zero), so it boots immediately into puppy without pause.
29. Make sure this line "kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda2 ro vga=normal" has "vga=normal". if it's vga=790, it causes the error in step 25.
30. Save and exit. now REBOOT and test out your installation. it should work just fine!

Notes: The linux-swap may be either primary or extended. It may be better to have extended since these are not hiden by default at boot time under any OS. The swap partition must be visible and NOT hidden.
=={{color fg="black" bg="yellow" text=" A Beginner's Guide to Installing Puppy (from the Puppy Linux Discussion Forum) "}}==

Many users who discover Puppy eventually want to install it to their hard drives instead of using the Live CD. This will often involve dual-booting the computer along with Windows. Puppy has an installer program located in its Setup menu but the various options can be confusing. This article discusses the decisions you need to make before attempting the installation. If you plan to scrap Windows entirely and set up a dedicated Puppy machine, you will also find useful information here.

Open the Live CD and look at the contents. You will see that the complete operating system is contained in just three compressed files. They are vmlinuz, initrd.gz and pupxxx.sfs. (Older versions of Puppy also used a file named zdrvxxx.sfs.) The first two files contain the code that Puppy uses to get itself started. The third file contains the application software like word processors and web browsers.

=={{color fg="black" bg="yellow" text=" Decision #1 "}}==

What kind of installation method will you choose? There are two choices. A traditional full install extracts all the individual files from the three core files on the CD and copies them to your hard drive. You end up with many files and folders, like you have in a Windows setup.

A frugal install just copies the three files from the CD to your hard drive as they are. Each method has its own advantages, which we won't discuss now. For beginners, a frugal install is easiest - simply because it duplicates the way that the Live CD works. (A more detailed comparison of full versus frugal is provided at the end of this document.)

The exception to the above rule is an old computer with limited memory (64 MB or less). It will work better with a full install. On the other hand, you may be disappointed with Puppy's performance on such a low-end machine.

=={{color fg="black" bg="yellow" text=" Decision #2 "}}==

Where will you install the files on your computer? A hard drive can be split into several independent regions called partitions. Clearly, the safest place to install Puppy is in its own partition where it can never touch your Windows setup. However, this involves shrinking your Windows partition to provide the necessary space. Most newcomers are nervous about doing this. Tools like the [[http://partedmagic.com/wiki/PartedMagic.php Parted Magic Live CD]] can reliably repartition your hard drive. Or you can use the Gparted program on the Puppy Live CD. But there are risks, especially if your Windows installation has some underlying corruption. And because there is a learning curve to using a partitioning program, you might not want to practice on your best Windows machine. Also, see the notes at the end.

You can use a separate partition to hold either a full or frugal install. A few GB of space will be plenty for a frugal setup. You must also decide how to format it. For a frugal install, the ext2 filesystem will be fine.

Unless your machine has lots of memory (512 MB or more), you should also consider making a swap partition. A good rule of thumb would be to add enough swap to bring your total memory up to 512 MB. You can use the Linux "free" command to check how much memory you have in play.

If you are not comfortable repartitioning your hard drive, Puppy has an alternative. Stay with one partition, do a frugal install and put the Puppy files inside Windows. For example, the first core file would then become c:\vmlinuz. This is known as a "coexist" install.

In the old days of Windows 98 and FAT32, a coexist setup was the easiest method for beginners. However, since NTFS has become the standard filesystem format for Windows, this may no longer be true. There are some reports that if Puppy crashes, it can also damage Windows. But many users are running Puppy this way without incident. So you need to choose between two small risks - corrupting Windows during a drive repartition or corrupting it as a side effect of Puppy failing.

=={{color fg="black" bg="yellow" text=" Decision #3 "}}==

How do you want your computer to boot? When your machine powers up, it needs to select one of its partitions from which to load an operating system. This requires a bit of code called a bootloader, located at the root of your hard drive in the Master Boot Record.

All hard drives that have Windows installed contain a standard block of code in their MBR. If this code gets altered, Windows may refuse to boot even though its actual files are OK. This can be a frightening situation, but is easy to repair. Do some research on the WinXP Recovery Console and its "fixmbr" command. [[http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?search_id=1691645923&t=16950 Also look here]] for the "fixmbr" download. Vista users should read [[http://neosmart.net/blog/2008/windows-vista-recovery-disc-download/ here.]]

This is a crucial issue because Puppy uses its own bootloader, GRUB. You have to pick one or the other as the primary bootloader for your computer.

Now for the decision. Do you want to continue using Windows as the primary bootloader? If so, you will need to modify Windows so it presents a startup menu that includes Puppy as one of the options. The Puppy Universal Installer (PUI) cannot set this up because you need to make the changes from inside Windows. There is an on-line tutorial called the Lin'N'Win Project that will do the job. [[http://www.icpug.org.uk/national/linnwin/step00-linnwin.htm Find it here]]

Or do you want Puppy to be the primary bootloader? This will involve installing GRUB, which Puppy can do automatically. Windows will now run as an option from the GRUB boot menu. However, because GRUB is a Linux product, this will only work if you have installed Puppy into its own partition. And the partition must be formatted using a Linux-compatible filesystem such as ext2.

The PUI will refuse to install GRUB in a FAT or NTFS partition, because it assumes that the partition contains Windows. Watch for the cryptic error message "This partition is not Linux".

Now we get to the MBR issue. The quickest out-of-the-box solution is to install GRUB on the MBR of your hard drive. The PUI will warn you about the dangers. But this is only an issue if you want to return your machine to a Windows-only setup in the future. In which case, you would simply run the "fixmbr" procedure.

In a multi-partition setup, you should NEVER have to reinstall Windows just because there was a problem with Puppy. Unless you did something really stupid.

At this point, a short GRUB tutorial might be helpful. GRUB has two parts - stage1 and stage2. Stage1 is the small block of boot code that gets written onto the MBR. Stage2 is the collection of support files that are stored in the folder /boot/grub on the Linux partition. That is also where the GRUB menu file, menu.lst, is located.

This should explain what can go wrong with a dual-boot system. Suppose that your Linux install gets damaged or you decide to delete it completely. If your /boot/grub folder has disappeared, the stage1 code in the MBR won't be able to find its stage2 files. Your computer will refuse to boot, even to Windows. But now you know how to fix this by restoring the MBR.

If you are still nervous about changing your MBR, you can modify the Lin'n'Win technique to boot Puppy off a different partition. Or you can have the PUI write GRUB's stage1 to a floppy boot disk. Or you can do the frugal install manually and use a [[http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=16950 boot CD]] to launch it. In that case, you could even put Puppy in a logical FAT partition which would be sharable with Windows. Or you could avoid the entire issue by installing Puppy onto a USB flash drive.

=={{color fg="black" bg="yellow" text="Full versus Frugal "}}==

When you do a full install, all of the data in the core Puppy files is extracted from the CD into a filesystem on your hard drive. Any software you install or files you save are added to the filesystem, so the total number of files and folders gradually increases.

In a frugal install, Puppy creates another file named pup_save.2fs. When you boot up, the filesystem stored in the core Puppy files is loaded into memory, but remains read-only. The pupsave file is used to hold all the new stuff you add. These two are merged together so it appears that you are working with a single filesystem. You get the effect of a full install while Puppy is running, but all you actually see on your hard drive are the core files and the pupsave.

The main advantage of a frugal install is that you always boot with pristine copies of the core Puppy files. If your install gets corrupted, it's just a matter of restoring the single pupsave file from a backup copy.

But what if your pupsave file gets filled up? Puppy has a utility for increasing its size. Or you can store content on your hard drive outside of the savefile, like you would with a full install.

Another advantage is the ability to put a frugal install almost anywhere. You can even stick it inside a full install of Puppy or another Linux. Or you can have multiple frugal installs in the same partition.

Whether you use full or frugal, Puppy's GRUB install procedure can be a bit confusing. However it's easy to install GRUB manually. Read [[http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=16950 here]] and get the "grub-install" package.

=={{color fg="black" bg="yellow" text="Puppy and Other Linux Partitioning Tools"}}==

There are certain advantages to using a stand alone product like the Parted Magic CD to reformat a drive. For example, it will contain the latest NTFS drivers if you need to shrink Windows. However this tool, or the partitioning programs in some other Linux's, can have a major side effect on Puppy. Read [[http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=262324#262324 this thread]] regarding inode sizes in ext partitions.

=={{color fg="black" bg="yellow" text="Vista and Linux"}}==

There have been reports that Vista can be corrupted if a user tries to shrink the Windows partition using Linux tools. A safer procedure is to use Vista's own Disk Management tool, then create the new partitions using Linux. If you want to keep Vista as the primary bootloader, look at Easy BCD [[http://neosmart.net/wiki/display/EBCD/EasyBCD+Documentation+Home;jsessionid=4CDEDEBD199D7577A170EDA271A0B04A
here.]]

**Source: Beginners Help - Puppy Linux Discussion Forum **

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It is assumed that your PC is able to boot from an optical disc drive, and that you are installing to an internal hard disk drive.
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Please note that the partition sizes used are for example only; make yours to the sizes that you want. As to the size of the SWAP partition, it is usually recommended that it is twice the size of your RAM. So if you have 128MB of RAM, create a SWAP partititon of 256MB,
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Before starting, make a note of what screen resolution your graphics card/monitor can handle; you will need this information soon after booting the CD.
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<span style="font-weight: bold">Also note</span> that because this was done using QEMU, i had to use Xvesa therefore i cannot show any screenshots for the Xorg sequences.
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QEMU is a generic and open source machine emulator and virtualizer. For more information, visit the <a class="postlink" target="_blank" href="http://bellard.org/qemu/about.html"><span style="color: blue">QEMU website.</span></a><br />
So for the purpose of this how-to, just ignore the QEMU window, you will not see it yourself, so do not expect to.
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<span style="font-weight: bold">Part 1</span>. <span style="font-style: italic"><span style="font-size: 18px; line-height: normal">Booting to the desktop</span>.</span>
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Place the Puppy LiveCD/DVD into the drive and re-boot the computer.
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The first thing you see will be this:
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Use the up/down arrows on the keyboard to make your choice then press ENTER/RETURN for OK.
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If you need to use Xvesa use the TAB key to make your selection then press ENTER/RETURN for OK.
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If you chose Xorg, you then need to select a screen resolution:
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Select an appropriate resolution then press ENTER/RETURN for OK.
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Now test it:
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Again, use the TAB key to select Test, then press ENTER/RETURN for OK
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If it works, thats good, if it did not, then try with Xvesa
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If you chose Xvesa you will then see this:
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Select an appropriate resolution and click Change
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When the desktop comes back up, along with the Xvesa video wizard click OKAY
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You should now be at the desktop like this:
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<span style="font-weight: bold">Part 2</span>. <span style="font-style: italic"><span style="font-size: 18px; line-height: normal">Partitioning and Formatting the drive</span>.</span>
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Now for the main part of this how-to.
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Right click the desktop to get the menu up,
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now go to System > GParted partition manager
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Then click on New to create a new partition.
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Make the partition to the size you wish, as you can see below, i left enough space for the SWAP partition.
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For Filesystem you can choose either ext2 or ext3.
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<span style="font-weight: bold"><a class="postlink" target="_blank" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ext2">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ext2</a></span>
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<span style="font-weight: bold"><a class="postlink" target="_blank" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ext3">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ext3</a></span>
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Click on Add
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Now create the SWAP partition (be sure to select linux-swap as Filesystem)
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click on Add
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And again, click on Apply
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You will now see it Applying pending operations
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When it has finished, click on Close
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Now click to highlight /dev/hda1
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then RIGHT click and select Manage Flags.
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Now click to select boot.
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<span style="font-weight: bold">Image-17</span>
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when its ready click on Close.
<br />
<br />
Things should now look something like this.
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<span style="font-weight: bold">Image-18</span>
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<a class="postlink" target="_blank" href="http://www.servimg.com/image_preview.php?i=48&u=12365505"><img border="0" src="http://i46.servimg.com/u/f46/12/36/55/05/2010.png" /></a>
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If so, you can now close GParted, we are finished with it.
<br />
<br />
<br />
<span style="font-weight: bold">Part 3</span>. <span style="font-style: italic"><span style="font-size: 18px; line-height: normal">Install Time</span>.</span>
<br />
<br />
Now we will use the Puppy Universal Installer to make a full installation to hda1, followed by installing GRUB to the MBR.
<br />
<br />
So again RIGHT click the desktop and go to Setup > Puppy universal installer
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<span style="font-weight: bold">Image-19</span>
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<a class="postlink" target="_blank" href="http://www.servimg.com/image_preview.php?i=49&u=12365505"><img border="0" src="http://i46.servimg.com/u/f46/12/36/55/05/2110.png" /></a>
<br />
<br />
Select Internal (IDE or SATA) hard drive
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<span style="font-weight: bold">Image-20</span>
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<a class="postlink" target="_blank" href="http://www.servimg.com/image_preview.php?i=50&u=12365505"><img border="0" src="http://i46.servimg.com/u/f46/12/36/55/05/2210.png" /></a>
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Then click OK
<br />
<br />
Next choose which drive to install to (in this case it is hda)
<br />
<span style="font-weight: bold">Image-21</span>
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<a class="postlink" target="_blank" href="http://www.servimg.com/image_preview.php?i=51&u=12365505"><img border="0" src="http://i46.servimg.com/u/f46/12/36/55/05/2310.png" /></a>
<br />
Then click OK
<br />
<br />
Next select the partition to install to (in this case it is hda1)
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<span style="font-weight: bold">Image-22</span>
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<a class="postlink" target="_blank" href="http://www.servimg.com/image_preview.php?i=52&u=12365505"><img border="0" src="http://i46.servimg.com/u/f46/12/36/55/05/2410.png" /></a>
<br />
<br />
Confirm your choice, by clicking on OK
<br />
<span style="font-weight: bold">Image-23</span>
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<a class="postlink" target="_blank" href="http://www.servimg.com/image_preview.php?i=53&u=12365505"><img border="0" src="http://i46.servimg.com/u/f46/12/36/55/05/2510.png" /></a>
<br />
<br />
Now tell it where the files are, in this case click on CD
<br />
<span style="font-weight: bold">Image-24</span>
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<a class="postlink" target="_blank" href="http://www.servimg.com/image_preview.php?i=54&u=12365505"><img border="0" src="http://i46.servimg.com/u/f46/12/36/55/05/2610.png" /></a>
<br />
<br />
Click OK again
<br />
<span style="font-weight: bold">Image-25</span>
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</p>
<p>
<a class="postlink" target="_blank" href="http://www.servimg.com/image_preview.php?i=55&u=12365505"><img border="0" src="http://i46.servimg.com/u/f46/12/36/55/05/2710.png" /></a><br />
<br />
Next we will choose FULL
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<span style="font-weight: bold">Image-26</span>
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<a class="postlink" target="_blank" href="http://www.servimg.com/image_preview.php?i=56&u=12365505"><img border="0" src="http://i46.servimg.com/u/f46/12/36/55/05/2810.png" /></a>
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<br />
Now wait, while it copies files to the hard drive
<br />
<span style="font-weight: bold">Image-27</span>
<br />
<a class="postlink" target="_blank" href="http://www.servimg.com/image_preview.php?i=57&u=12365505"><img border="0" src="http://i46.servimg.com/u/f46/12/36/55/05/2910.png" /></a>
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<span style="font-weight: bold">Image-28</span>
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<a class="postlink" target="_blank" href="http://www.servimg.com/image_preview.php?i=58&u=12365505"><img border="0" src="http://i46.servimg.com/u/f46/12/36/55/05/3010.png" /></a>
<br />
<br />
Now we will install GRUB
<br />
<span style="font-weight: bold">Image-29</span>
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<a class="postlink" target="_blank" href="http://www.servimg.com/image_preview.php?i=59&u=12365505"><img border="0" src="http://i46.servimg.com/u/f46/12/36/55/05/3110.png" /></a>
<br />
<br />
Select INSTALL
<br />
<span style="font-weight: bold">Image-30</span>
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<a class="postlink" target="_blank" href="http://www.servimg.com/image_preview.php?i=60&u=12365505"><img border="0" src="http://i46.servimg.com/u/f46/12/36/55/05/3210.png" /></a>
<br />
<br />
Click OK
<br />
<span style="font-weight: bold">Image-31</span>
<br />
<a class="postlink" target="_blank" href="http://www.servimg.com/image_preview.php?i=61&u=12365505"><img border="0" src="http://i46.servimg.com/u/f46/12/36/55/05/3310.png" /></a>
<br />
<br />
Choose simple and click OK
<br />
<span style="font-weight: bold">Image-32</span>
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<a class="postlink" target="_blank" href="http://www.servimg.com/image_preview.php?i=62&u=12365505"><img border="0" src="http://i46.servimg.com/u/f46/12/36/55/05/3410.png" /></a>
<br />
<br />
Select standard and click OK
<br />
<span style="font-weight: bold">Image-33</span>
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<a class="postlink" target="_blank" href="http://www.servimg.com/image_preview.php?i=63&u=12365505"><img border="0" src="http://i46.servimg.com/u/f46/12/36/55/05/3510.png" /></a>
<br />
<br />
Accept the default entry (in this case /dev/hda1) and click OK
<br />
<span style="font-weight: bold">Image-34</span>
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<a class="postlink" target="_blank" href="http://www.servimg.com/image_preview.php?i=64&u=12365505"><img border="0" src="http://i46.servimg.com/u/f46/12/36/55/05/3610.png" /></a>
<br />
<br />
Scroll down the list, and select MBR and click OK
<br />
<span style="font-weight: bold">Image-35</span>
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<a class="postlink" target="_blank" href="http://www.servimg.com/image_preview.php?i=65&u=12365505"><img border="0" src="http://i46.servimg.com/u/f46/12/36/55/05/3710.png" /></a>
<br />
<br />
Hopefully you will get confirmation that GRUB was successfully installed
<br />
<span style="font-weight: bold">Image-36</span>
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<a class="postlink" target="_blank" href="http://www.servimg.com/image_preview.php?i=66&u=12365505"><img border="0" src="http://i46.servimg.com/u/f46/12/36/55/05/3810.png" /></a>
<br />
Click OK
<br />
<br />
We are now finished with the Universal Installer, so click on NO
<br />
<span style="font-weight: bold">Image-37</span>
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<a class="postlink" target="_blank" href="http://www.servimg.com/image_preview.php?i=67&u=12365505"><img border="0" src="http://i46.servimg.com/u/f46/12/36/55/05/3910.png" /></a>
<br />
<br />
Now REBOOT (REMOVE the CD from the drive first)
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<span style="font-weight: bold">Image-38</span>
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<a class="postlink" target="_blank" href="http://www.servimg.com/image_preview.php?i=68&u=12365505"><img border="0" src="http://i46.servimg.com/u/f46/12/36/55/05/4010.png" /></a>
<br />
<br />
Answer NO when asked if you want to save
<br />
<span style="font-weight: bold">Image-39</span>
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<a class="postlink" target="_blank" href="http://www.servimg.com/image_preview.php?i=69&u=12365505"><img border="0" src="http://i46.servimg.com/u/f46/12/36/55/05/4110.png" /></a>
<br />
<br />
When it reboots, you should see the GRUB boot screen,
<br />
(in this case Linux (on /dev/hda1)) is already selected so just hit ENTER/RETURN
<br />
<span style="font-weight: bold">Image-40</span>
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<a class="postlink" target="_blank" href="http://www.servimg.com/image_preview.php?i=70&u=12365505"><img border="0" src="http://i46.servimg.com/u/f46/12/36/55/05/4210.png" /></a>
<br />
<br />
You will need to make your choice of Keyboard Layout, and Xorg or Xvesa once again.
<br />
<br />
When you get to the desktop, that is it done.
<br />
<br />
Next time you reboot, after selecting the partition to boot via GRUB you should go straight to the desktop.
<br />
<br />
<br />
CatDude
</p>
<h1>Appendix</h1>
<p>
[data from previous articles]
</p>
<h2> install</h2>
<div class="indent">
1. Use Gparted from the Control Panel menu to create an ext3 and linux swap partition. Maximum size of the swap partition should be 2 x RAM.<br />
2. Use the Puppy Universal Installer from the Setup menu to perform a NORMAL install.<br />
3. When prompted, put Grub's boot loader in the MBR of the hard drive. The other Grub files will be placed in a /boot directory on the ext3 partition
</div>
<br />
A laptop with 128Mb RAM or more would best be served by a FRUGAL install. After Step 1 above:<br />
<br />
<div class="indent">
1. Copy vmlinuz, initrd.gz, pup_212.sfs and zdrv_212.sfs to the / directory of the hard drive.<br />
2. Use the Grub bootloader config program from the Control Panel menu to install.<br />
3. Edit the /boot/grub/menu.lst file to read<br />
Quote:<br />
title <a title="Create this page" class="missingpage" href="http://puppylinux.org/wikka/PuppyLinux/edit">Puppy Linux</a><br />
root (hd0,0)<br />
kernel (hd0,0)/vmlinuz pmedia=idehd<br />
initrd (hd0,0)/initrd.gz
</div>
<br />
Note: the .sfs files have to be in the / directory, but the vmlinuz and initrd.gz files can also be copied to a sub-directory e.g. /puppy212;<br />
in this case the GRUB entries need to be changed accordingly to show the path to these files like:<br />
<div class="indent">
kernel <b>/puppy212</b>/vmlinuz pmedia=idehd<br />
initrd <b>/puppy212</b>/initrd.gz
</div>
This is needed when installing multiple versions of puppy, where for each version the vmlinuz and initrd.gz files have to be copied to their own sub-directory since these names do not change with the version (but all .sfs files for all versions in the / directory).<br />
<div class="indent">
<br />
</div>
<h3>Hard Disc Drive Install</h3>
<br />
<h3>Update for 2.xx Universal Installer Bug</h3>
1) boot <a href="http://puppylinux.org/wikka/LiveCD">LiveCD/DVD</a>;<br />
2) run GParted and create 2 partitions<br />
<ol type="2">
<li> One(1) 0.5GB plus Primary ext3 (1.5Gb to 2.5Gb should be plenty for most users);
</li>
<li> One(1) 2 x RAM (max 0.5Gb) Primary linux-swap;</li>
</ol>
3) run Puppy Universal Installer, pick IDE (ATA) internal Drive installation<br />
4) install onto the ext3 partition you created<br />
5) follow the on-screen direction from this point<br />
6) when prompted, install the GRUB bootloader to MBR of the drive.<br />
<br />
2 partitions to choose from straightens out the script, and you'll want a swap area of some type anyway. <br />
<br />
<a href="http://puppylinux.org/wikka/HardDiskInstall">See also Installing Puppy Linux to Your Hard Drive</a><br />
<br />
<h2><b>How to make a bootable hard drive that is dedicated to Puppy Linux.</b></h2>
<div class="indent">
<i>For Linux Newbies.</i>
</div>
<br />
<div class="indent">
Why would you want to do this?<br />
Because you want to experiment with reconfiguring Puppy. (And maybe all the other wonderful Puppy features for saving configuration info are not quite working for you yet.)
</div>
<br />
<b>Is this easy?</b><br />
<div class="indent">
NO. If you have a hard drive that you are prepared to dedicate completely to Puppy, it should be easy, but if you are new to Linux it is not. Yet. You cannot just press a button and have Puppy take over the hard drive.
</div>
<br />
<b>Why isn't it easy?</b><br />
<div class="indent">
Mostly, because no one has done the work yet to make it easy. (Maybe you will fix this? Someday.)<br />
The available Puppy hard disk install process is too timid. It wants to coexist with other uses of the hard disk. This means in most cases using a boot floppy to get Puppy started from the hard disk. Maybe that is what you want. But if you want to take over the hard drive and have Puppy be bootable and self contained, read on.
</div>
<br />
<b>What size HDD do I need?</b><br />
<div class="indent">
A minimal hard drive install seems to use about 100MB. So 200MB might be a minimum. 500MB to 1GB should be plenty for most experimental purposes. You might need more for heavy-duty re-compiling re-mastering etc. So, most any old scavenged hard drive that is not defective should be plenty big. And you might want to avoid drives over 8GB if you want to experiment with transplants into older computers, which can have problems with larger drives.
</div>
<br />
<b>The rest of this assumes that you will be choosing OPTION-2 in the install procedure.</b><br />
<br />
In order to have a bootable hard drive, four steps have to succeed:<br />
1) PARTITION (Pdisk, fdisk, cfdisk)<br />
2) FORMAT (mkfs, mke2fs?)<br />
3) LOAD PUPPY SOFTWARE (Option-2)<br />
4) MAKE BOOTABLE (Grub, MBR)<br />
<br />
The OPTION-2 script handles most of this OK -- except unfortunately for Step 1 - Partition. Partitioning and Formatting are actually somewhat separate and potentially rather complex matters. The script is likely to need you to take care of Step 1 manually.<br />
Steps 2-4 the script should be able to walk you through and it should do most of the hard work. (Even if your goal is a bootable hard drive, it will encourage you to make a boot floppy, too. Not much harm in having one for back-up, but it does add another tedious step to the process, and you can choose to skip it.)<br />
<div class="indent">
<br />
<b>IF</b> you are trying this with Puppy 1.0.5, there is a bug in the process; you may end up with a hard drive that partially runs, but cannot start X (the windows-graphics interface) up. You may be able to cure this by booting from a CD and copying /usr to the hard drive. Or by patching 1.0.5. Or by researching more about the bug, in the forums. But the easiest cure is to use 1.0.6.<br />
<br />
<b>IF</b> you have an existing FAT (<a title="Create this page" class="missingpage" href="http://puppylinux.org/wikka/Fat12/edit">Fat12</a>/<a title="Create this page" class="missingpage" href="http://puppylinux.org/wikka/Fat16/edit">Fat16</a>) MS-DOS type partition, OPTION-2 will try to convert it, but will probably fail. You might as well delete the partition. You can do this by fiddling with PDISK, or use other tools if you are more familiar/comfortable with them.<br />
<br />
<b>IF</b> you have an existing partition of just the type that Puppy wants (perhaps you are updating Puppy) you will probably be in trouble! Because Puppy probably already mounted the partition during your last boot, in order to use it. Because it is mounted, the update process will refuse to change it! You will have to find a trick to boot from the CD without using/mounting that partition. One way to do this is use PDISK to delete the partition. Fortunately, PDISK is too dumb to realize that it should not allow you to delete a partition that you are using! So you can just delete the partition (this just removes the MBR partition entry), then reboot.<br />
<br />
<b>IF</b> you have no partitions on the hard drive, OPTION-2 will fail. You will need to use PDISK or some other method to create a partition. Then at long last you may actually be able to successfully run OPTION-2 and make a hard drive that can boot itself with GRUB.<br />
<br />
(What we really need is a new OPTION-3: NUKE THE HARD DRIVE, IGNORE ANY EXISTING CONTENTS, WRITE ZEROES TO SECTOR 0, AND MAKE A BOOTABLE PUPPY HARD DRIVE.)
</div>
<br />
-k 18nov05<br />
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<a href="http://puppylinux.org/wikka/PdisK">Pdisk</a><br />
<br />
<br />
<b>What if this isn't working for me?</b><br />
<div class="indent">
First, make sure that you can actually boot from that hard drive in that computer. Do this by using some tool to wipe the hard drive clean and installing a bootable test system on it, like a simple minimal MS-DOS 6.22.
</div>
If that works, be aware that left over data on the hard drive could be confusing things. Changing partitioning and formatting are actually separate and quite confusing matters. The better you wipe the drive to all zeroes, the less potential for confusion. In most cases just zeroing the first sector (the MBR) should give you a fresh start, but if things aren't working try zeroing out the whole volume. Look into making sure the drive is not only properly partitioned, but also FORMATTED if necessary.<br />
You could try avoiding fdisk and using cfdisk instead, since it has a better reputation.<br />
<br />
<a href="http://puppylinux.org/wikka/HardDriveInstallBruce">HardDriveInstallBruce</a><br />
<a title="Create this page" class="missingpage" href="http://puppylinux.org/wikka/BruceB/edit">BruceB</a> excerpts from the Forum<br />
<br />
See Also:<br />
<a class="ext" href="http://www.murga.org/~puppy/viewtopic.php?t=3665∞">http://www.murga.org/~puppy/viewtopic.php?t=3665∞</a><span class="exttail">∞</span>;<br />
Post subject: HD install routine<br />
Apologies if someone has already sussed this, but installing Puppy to HD can be very problematic...<br />
<br />
<br />
Posted: Sat Nov 12, 2005 8:50 pm<br />
The purpose of my post is to explain some of the obstacles could encounter in an Option 2, and techniques a person could use. And ramble on some.<br />
<br />
Puppy's default creates a pupxxx user file on a filesystem it deems the best one to use. This might not be the filesystem you would have liked it to create the pupxxx file. There are many ways to control where the pupxxx file is created and how large it is. But the default is to let Puppy make this decision.<br />
<br />
One problem people have when attempting to do an Option 2 install is that they want to install on the same partition that the 'mounted' pupxxx file is on.<br />
<br />
The install routine will not install on a 'mounted' partition.<br />
<br />
One work around is: at boot time don't let Puppy mount the pupxxx file at all. This way the partitions will be unmounted and likely available for an Option 2 install.<br />
<br />
At install time, Puppy will give a you a list of available partitions to install to.<br />
<br />
<hr />
<br />
Changing subject a little. I think a lot of people conceptualize Linux as mounting drives and / or partitions, which it does do. I'd like to sell the idea of conceptualizing Linux as an operating system that mounts filesystems. For an example, the way the Puppy uses the pupxxx file is:<br />
<br />
1) it mounts the filesystem where the pupxxx file is on<br />
2) it mounts the pupxxx file as a filesystem<br />
<br />
The result is: One partition mounted with two separate mounted filesystems.<br />
<br />
<br />
<hr />
<br />
More change of subject.<br />
<br />
Marking a FAT filesystem as hidden doesn't hinder Linux' ability to mount and use the filesystem. Although, it could be that the Puppy install scripts deal with hidden FAT partitions in different ways, according to the scripting.<br />
<br />
<hr />
<br />
About DOS Fdisk programs:<br />
<br />
The DR DOS fdisk only recognizes about 8 GB, it's a good FDISK otherwise. If you format a partition with DR DOS format, it will be a good format. If MS-DOS / Windows accesses that filesystem it will damage it.<br />
<br />
The PC DOS (IBM) fdisk won't access large drives either.<br />
<br />
<a title="Create this page" class="missingpage" href="http://puppylinux.org/wikka/FreeDOS/edit">FreeDOS</a> fdisk, sys and format utilities had the same problem with MS-DOS behaving destructively against their work. The <a title="Create this page" class="missingpage" href="http://puppylinux.org/wikka/FreeDOS/edit">FreeDOS</a> community was informed about the cause of puzzling behavior MS-DOS on their filesystem. They corrected the problems in July 2004.<br />
<br />
DR DOS version 8.0 corrected the problem, the 7.03 version still leaves itself wide open to the MS-DOS bad behavior.<br />
<br />
Simply stated the Microsoft Operating system thru virtually all DOS and Windows versions through ME do this: It reads a text field in the boot sector of each FAT partition and adjusts behavior according to the text string it finds. This eight text string is called the OEM ID field.<br />
<br />
It is officially denied that Microsoft uses this field in its specifications and other places. Programmers naive enough to believe the official documentation fall into a trap sometimes of writing an OEM text string that triggers MS bad beahvior and don't know what is going on because they did everything right (or so they think).<br />
<br />
As far as FDISK programs go, if you are working with big drives, MS Fdisk and <a title="Create this page" class="missingpage" href="http://puppylinux.org/wikka/FreeDOS/edit">FreeDOS</a> Fdisk are viable options. Generally, I use the MS fdisk on big drives, (any drive for that matter).<br />
<br />
It is however helpful to understand its personality as well as some Puppy limits.<br />
<br />
Puppy's compilation will only recognize up to 9 partitions per hard drive. Considering that the extended partition is not mountable, this means with Puppy you can have up to 8 working partitions per hard disk.<br />
<br />
Typically, people set up a primary, then extended, then logical partitions. Doing it that way, they might end up with something like this:<br />
<br />
hda1 primary<br />
hda4 extended (and unmountable)<br />
hda5 logical<br />
hda6 logical<br />
hda7 logical<br />
hda8 logical<br />
hda9 logical<br />
<br />
If your scheme does look like this you've reached the Puppy limit of 6 as there is no device driver for hda10 and you don't have an hda2 and hda3<br />
<br />
In order that I can have 8 usable partitions I do it like this:<br />
<br />
hda1 primary<br />
hda2 primary<br />
hda3 primary<br />
hda4 extended (and unmountable)<br />
hda5 logical<br />
hda6 logical<br />
hda7 logical<br />
hda8 logical<br />
hda9 logical<br />
<br />
<br />
MS-DOS Fdisk will not create hda2 primary or hda3 primary. Linux cfdisk would create these partitions, but if you used MS-DOS Fdisk to make the extended partition AND you marked hda2 and hda3 as Linux partitions, MS-DOS Fdisk would write the partition inside the Linux partition and make things unusable. If you marked hda2 and hda3 as FAT with Cfdisk, then MS-DOS Fdisk will put the extended partition where it belongs. This is probably very unintentional on MS' part.<br />
<br />
There are also other DOS based fdisk utilities that will make hda2 and hda3. Aefdisk will do it and I'm pretty sure the <a title="Create this page" class="missingpage" href="http://puppylinux.org/wikka/FreeDOS/edit">FreeDOS</a> fdisk will do it.<br />
<br />
One point I wish to make is that using DOS based fdisk utilities, I can create complex Linux partitioning schemes. In the example above, after I setup the partitions, I'd use the DOS aefdisk to mark each partition according to the filesystem I wish it to contain.<br />
<br />
If for example I wanted hda9 to be a Linux swap filesytem, I'd mark it as type 82, then when I boot Linux I'd format it accordingly.<br />
<br />
<hr />
<br />
As far as PQmagic is concerned. It is a very powerful tool. But if you use it, you may get stuck with it as your partitioning tool.<br />
<br />
Suppose I wanted to delete logical partitions hda8 and hda9. If I do it with Linux fdisk or MS fdisk, I still have free space in the extended partition. I can then make other partitions in the extended partition.<br />
<br />
If I delete hda8 and hda9 with PQmagic, it resizes the extended partition to contain hda5 thru hda7. You still have free space on the hard drive, but it is not in the extended partition. What to do? Use PQmagic to handle the free space, as other utilities might not be able to, or give you results you don't want.<br />
<br />
I'm not trying to knock PQmagic, I think enough of it that I purchased three version over the course of years. But it does do what it does.<br />
<br />
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<hr />
<br />
In conclusion: I think the easiest why to prepare for an Option 2 install, is mark the partition you want to install it on as type 83, don't format it. Boot Puppy and it won't mount that partition because there is no filesystem on it to work with. It will therefore be available as a useable, properly marked, and unmounted partition for Puppy to install on.<br />
<br />
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<br />
Posted: Tue Nov 15, 2005 5:00 am<br />
<br />
OPTION 1 HARD INSTALL VS. BOOTING FROM CD DISC<br />
<br />
The Option 1 install will boot a lot faster than the CD disc. The reason why is, the computer can read the hard disk faster than a CD disc. There are about 60 MB worth of data that has to be located and read.<br />
<br />
Once the computer has been booted the actual operation theoretically should be identical. The three key files necessary to boot Puppy only get read one time, and they are not used or needed again.<br />
<br />
An exception would be on a low memory system. The file usr_cram.fs normally gets copied to RAM then mounted as a file system. If Puppy calculates that the computer doesn't have enough RAM to copy usr_cram.fs into RAM, it will mount it and read it as needed from where it is.<br />
<br />
<br />
OPTION 2 INSTALL VS. OPTION 1 HD INSTALL<br />
<br />
Puppy will boot markedly faster with Option 2 than with Option 1. The principle reasons are that it doesn't need to copy usr_cram.fs to RAM, and it doesn't need to setup and configure a file system, as the file system is already in place and ready to go.<br />
<br />
Read operations will be slower from hard disk than RAM, simply because the hard disk is slower. On the other hand the files read don't go through the same decompression process. In actual practice the computer should be able to locate and read a small file off the hard disk so fast you wouldn't notice the read time.<br />
<br />
If you were to launch a large program like Mozilla, it should take 'noticably' longer time to read it from the hard disc as it would from RAM.<br />
<br />
Once Mozilla's working components are loaded in memory, they should run about the same speed.<br />
<br />
Except for the very fast boot, an Option 2 is slower in some areas of operation than an Option 1.<br />
<br />
There is an exception to this rule and that is with low memory systems. An Option 1 uses up considerably more RAM space than an Option 2, because all the filesystem is in RAM and taking up space, except for /root and whatever you have mounted yourself.<br />
<br />
If your computer doesn't have sufficient RAM and is actively using a swap file system for its normal operations on an Option 1, it is very likely that it would run faster with an Option 2 because there is more RAM to work with before it needs to swap.<br />
<br />
<hr size="2" width="100%" />
<br />
For Quick hard disk installs of Puppy 1.03 to 1.05 (in separate partition or in <a href="http://puppylinux.org/wikka/WinXP">WinXP</a>)<br />
<a class="ext" href="http://ph-islands.net/pupinstall/">TRY THIS Tutorial FIRST</a><span class="exttail">∞</span><br />
<br />
<a href="http://puppylinux.org/wikka/HardDriveInstall">See also Hard Drive Install / Hard Disk Install BOOTABLE</a><br />
<br />
<h3>Step by Step: Installing Puppy Linux to Your Hard Drive</h3>
<h5>A Linux Newbie Guide</h5>
<br />
This tutorial shows you how to install Puppy Linux to a DOS formatted HD. To install Puppy<br />
onto a HD with a pre-existing OS present (i.e. Windows) to achieve a dual boot setup, is<br />
<div class="indent">
not covered in this how-to (you should check <a href="http://puppylinux.org/wikka/Installing">Installing</a> and look for frugal install). If you follow this sequence, you'll end up with a HD with only
</div>
Puppy Linux and MS-DOS installed.<br />
<br />
<h5>Software You Need:</h5>
1. A bootable copy of <span class="underline">Puppy Linux 1.0.4</span>
on a CD. Make sure it is Checksumed before burning the ISO (link), make
sure it is burned properly (link), and check to make sure that it is
actually bootable by actually booting it. <br />
2. <span class="underline">Darik's Boot and Nuke</span>
(DBN) on a Floppy or another disc-wiping program. (This is necessary
for disc 'wiping' or erasing which is an optional process.)<br />
3. <span class="underline">MS-DOS 6.22</span> - usually on 3 floppy discs.<br />
<br />
To format your Hard Drive, you could install MS-DOS onto your HD, then run 'format c:'<br />
I prefer totally wiping out the HD using DBN, then installing MS-DOS.<br />
<br />
Let's begin.<br />
<br />
<b>Important: </b><br />
<b>Before Beginning Install</b><br />
If your computer has more than one CD/DVD device, then before<br />
installing Puppy, DISABLE the non-install media device.<br />
<br />
This means, if you have both a CD-ROM and a DVD device, and<br />
you will install Puppy from the CD-ROM, then disable the DVD<br />
device by unplugging the power supply to the DVD. Open the <br />
computer case to do this, and then pull out the power plug to <br />
the DVD.<br />
<br />
The reason, is that during install, if more than one CD/DVD device<br />
is present on your computer, Puppy Linux is unable to Mount &<br />
Unmount the install device - so you can't install Puppy.<br />
<br />
<br />
<h4>1. DBN How:</h4>
1. Put the DBN floppy in the drive and restart the computer (the BIOS might have to be<br />
adjusted to boot from floppy).<br />
<br />
2. DBN will load. At the first prompt ("boot:") type <span style="color: blue">quick</span> then press <span style="color: blue">Enter</span>. DBN will now<br />
start to erase the HD. This will take between 15 and 60 minutes - or longer - depending<br />
on the capacity of your HD. Remove the DBN floppy as soon as the wipe sequence starts.<br />
<br />
DBN will go through 1 wipe cycle. You can see the % completed in the large bottom window, <br />
far left. (I now turn off the monitor, and go and do something for an hour). If you get bored, <br />
you can abort the wipe at any stage and still have a wiped HD - although not fully wiped. <br />
When finished, partition HD & install MS DOS.<br />
<br />
<br />
<h4>2. Partition HD using fdisk, then install MS-DOS:</h4>
Boot with MS-DOS Start Up disk. At A:\> prompt, type <span style="color: blue">fdisk</span>. you will now create<br />
a Primary Dos Partition of <span class="underline">at least</span> <span style="color: red">256</span> Mb (to install pup001 at Puppy boot).<br />
<br />
1. Enter choice <span style="color: blue">1</span> > <span style="color: blue">1</span> > <span style="color: blue">N</span> ("Do you wish to use maximum...") > type <span style="color: blue">256</span> (partition size)<br />
> <span style="color: blue">2</span> (set active partition) > <span style="color: blue">1</span> (number of partition).<br />
<br />
2. <span class="underline">Restart</span>, insert MS-DOS Disk 1, and at <b>A:\></b> type <span style="color: blue">setup</span> > choose <span style="color: red">Format this drive</span>.<br />
This will format the 256 Mb partition you've just created - not the entire HD.<br />
<br />
3. Follow standard, 3 disk, Dos install.<br />
<br />
<br />
<h4>3. Puppy Linux Install:</h4>
"<b>Use <a title="Create this page" class="missingpage" href="http://puppylinux.org/wikka/Wakepup2/edit">Wakepup2</a></b>" for older machines that cant boot from CD <a class="ext" href="http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=7979">http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=7979</a><span class="exttail">∞</span> <br />
1. Boot from Puppy CD. At Puppy splash-screen "boot:" press <span style="color: blue">3</span>. <br />
2. At Red Text, type <span style="color: blue">hda1</span> then <span style="color: blue">Enter</span> (for pup001 default).<br />
3. Choose <span class="underline">br-latin1-us</span> keyboard, select mouse, etc.<br />
In Puppy desktop, choose a resolution (800 X 600 is good). <br />
4. In Puppy desktop, <b>rvxt</b> > type <span style="color: blue">cfdisk</span>.<br />
5. In cfdisk > <b>Pri/Log</b> > <b>New</b> > <b>Primary</b> > <b>Size</b> = at least <span style="color: red">500 Mb</span> ><br />
<b>Beginning</b> > <b>Write</b> > <span style="color: blue">Yes</span> > <b>Quit</b>.<br />
<br />
<span class="underline">Now in cfdisk, you should see something like this</span>:<br />
<br />
<tt>hda1. . . .Boot. . .Primary. . . .FAT16. . . .[MS-DOS 6]. . . .271.44<br />
hda2. . . . . . . ..Primary. . . .Linux. . . . . . . . . . . 501.75<br />
hda3. . . . . . . .. Pri/Log. . . .Free Space. . . . . . . .3536.88</tt><br />
<br />
6. Now, quit <b>rxvt</b>, and -- <span style="color: red">REBOOT (with Puppy CD still inside)</span>.
IMPORTANT STEP! REBOOT! Many online sources never state this step which
can then cause failed installations. When exiting Puppy, select 'DON'T
save changes' when asked.<br />
<br />
7. At Puppy splash-screen "boot:" press <span style="color: blue">3</span> > press <span style="color: blue">Enter</span> (for pup001). <br />
You should now go directly to Puppy desktop.<br />
8. <b>Start</b> > <b>Setup</b> > <b>Install Puppy hard drive</b>.<br />
9. "Make your choice": type <span style="color: blue">2</span>.<br />
10. STEP 1: press <span style="color: blue">Enter</span>.<br />
11. STEP 2: type <span style="color: blue">/dev/hda2</span> then press <span style="color: blue">y</span>.<br />
12. STEP 3: press <span style="color: blue">Enter</span> (to get "vmlinuz" off live-CD). CD-ROM will then eject.<br />
13. Remove CD-ROM.<br />
14. STEP 4: press <span style="color: blue">m</span> (or any key) then <span style="color: blue">Enter</span> (for no boot floppy).<br />
15. STEP 5: Computer will now write tables (inode etc.) and copy files and directories.<br />
16. STEP 7: GRUB install; press <span style="color: blue">m</span> then <span style="color: blue">Enter</span> (to install GRUB).<br />
<br />
<span class="underline">GRUBCONFIG V 1.24</span><br />
Choose the following:<br />
1. simple - (Try to install GRUB automatically) = OK.<br />
2. standard - (Use the standard Linux console - the safe choice) = OK.<br />
3. SELECT GRUB PARTITION - /dev/hda2 = OK.<br />
4. SELECT GRUB DESTINATION - select <span style="color: red">MBR</span> = OK.<br />
5. Continue clicking on OK boxes until - GRUB INSTALL SUCCESS.<br />
<br />
<h4>Final Steps:</h4>
1. Now, <span style="color: red">REBOOT</span>, and at GNU GRUB 0.96, choose: INSTALL GRUB TO LINUX PARTITION.<br />
<br />
2. <span class="underline">Post Installation Tweak to Grub Boot File</span>:<br />
When you reboot your computer, you'll be presented with a GRUB boot option<br />
of either booting into MS DOS or Linux. If you want to configure the start<br />
sequence to automatically boot into Linux, you must edit the <span style="color: purple">menu.lst</span> file:<br />
<br />
<span class="notes">NOTE:</span> It's menu.<b>lst</b> with a lower-case letter "L" not the number " 1"<br />
<br />
3. <span class="underline">How to edit the menu.lst file</span>:<br />
A. In Puppy Desktop > <b>rox</b> > <b>parent directory</b> > <b>boot</b> > <b>grub</b> > <b>menu.lst</b>.<br />
B. Open the <b>menu.lst</b> file.<br />
C. Cut these 3 lines...<br />
<br />
<span style="color: blue">title Linux (on /dev/hda2)</span><br />
<span style="color: blue">root (hd0,1)</span><br />
<span style="color: blue">kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda2 ro vga=normal</span><br />
<br />
and paste them below this line...<br />
<br />
<span style="color: blue"># Other bootable partition config begins</span><br />
<br />
<br />
D. Now, you can set the timeout value:<br />
<br />
In the line<br />
<br />
<span style="color: blue">#timeout 30</span><br />
<br />
CHANGE the 30 into 10, and REMOVE the <span style="color: blue">#</span> at the beginning<br />
of the line (you can specify the timeout value to whatever <br />
you like). Save & exit.<br />
<br />
Now, when you start computer, it will auto-boot into<br />
Puppy in 10 seconds. <br />
<br />
Ends. <br />
<br />
<hr />
<br />
<h3>Puppy 1.0.3 Option 2 install</h3>
<br />
<b>This is a fresh Hard disk install</b><br />
<br />
<ul>
<li> Boot up with Puppy but select <b>Option 2</b> when the splash screen comes up
</li>
<li> Go to Hard disk Install and choose option 2
</li>
<li> Type in <b>/dev/hda1</b> (or the number of your hard disk)
</li>
<li> Hit j and enter (that is an example any key)
</li>
<li> Hit j and enter again
</li>
<li> Choose MBR as area for GRUB to boot (I chose dev/hda1 as I was using a non Linux partition)</li>
</ul>
<hr />
<br />
<h5> Clearing the master Boot Record </h5>
One way you might could wipe the MBR is to boot up your machine using a
Windows 98 boot-up diskette, which contains among other things, FDISK.<br />
At the A:> prompt, type fdisk /mbr, press Enter, and see what happens.<br />
<br />
<h5> Installing to a hard drive </h5>
<span class="notes">' Warning</span>' this sections only goes up to section 6 (as that is as far as I know)<br />
<br />
It is not possible with version 0.9.9 to install automatically to a hard disk.<br />
Best bet is booting from a CD allowing Puppy to store its configuration details on any available HD<br />
<br />
<br />
# Creating live-CD Puppy by download the latest "puppy-xxxx.iso" file,
which is a complete CD image, and burn it to CD or order from Barry -
only $10<br />
# Change your bios setting to boot from CD<br />
# Prepare your hard disk<br />
<div class="indent">
<span class="notes">If the hard disk is vfat (FAT16
and FAT32) - (not NTFS) - that is older versions of Windows this is OK
and Puppy will create a file on these disks. Vfat and NTFS are the way
your hard disk stores data - known as formatting. Linux users should be
using ext2 ext3 or Resier(?)</span><br />
<span class="notes">If you are using a new or unformatted disk - which
I am just about to try then you must use fdisk (or similar) to create a
partition and format it - this requires some DOS knowledge</span><br />
<span class="notes">The install script is very cautious. It does not
alter any partitions on your hard drive, nor does it touch the MBR
(Master Boot Record). It creates a boot floppy disk. It does copy
image.gz (Puppy himself) (and also file usr_cram.fs if it exists) onto
a partition, but they are just files, so the partitions are not messed
around with at all.</span><br />
* To prepare the hard disk I used Knoppix to boot up and qtparted to partition
</div>
<i>remember to commit (create) and format the partitions</i><br />
<br />
<br />
# Boot from puppy<br />
# Go to Start / Set up / Install to Hard Drive<br />
# You will be given two options - we will be using option 2 <br />
<br />
2. Give Puppy his own partition. There are a few ways this can be<br />
done, but this script requires that you have a spare partition<br />
that Puppy can take over entirely. This option is recommended for<br />
anyone interested in developing applications for Puppy, as it<br />
gives the most flexibility. With this option, Puppy does NOT run<br />
in a ramdisk, and /usr folder is read-write.<br />
Option 2 requires a pre-existing spare partition. Puppy will<br />
convert it to ext2 filesystem. PARTITION WILL BE ERASED!<br />
<br />
Got as far as Step 6 of the script<br />
<br />
This message came up:<br />
<br />
"Now creating ext2 filesystem on /dev/hda1/ etc . . .<br />
<br />
mkfs:ext2:bad blocks count - <a title="Create this page" class="missingpage" href="http://puppylinux.org/wikka/ExtFs/edit">ExtFs</a>"<br />
<br />
<br />
<h5> Alternative HD Install Method </h5>
<span class="notes">'Configure LILO for hard-Puppy</span>'<br />
<span class="notes">WMCreate contributed this to the old forum:</span><br />
<br />
I'd had some difficulty getting Puppy Linux to work happily<br />
with Lilo on a hard drive. And, from searching the 'net and<br />
this forum, I see that I'm not alone.<br />
<br />
So, what follows is the solution that I came up with.<br />
YMMV.<br />
<br />
Using Partition Magic 8.0, I created a 600MB primary FAT32<br />
partition. (I tried using a logical/extended partition but<br />
things wouldn't work right). In my case, it became<br />
partition#4 (hdd).<br />
<br />
If you don't have Partition Magic, you can use QTparted on<br />
the bootable <a title="Create this page" class="missingpage" href="http://puppylinux.org/wikka/SystemRescueCD/edit">SystemRescueCD</a> ( <a class="ext" href="http://www.sysresccd.org">http://www.sysresccd.org</a><span class="exttail">∞</span> ).<br />
And, if you can't boot CD's, you can use the Smart Boot<br />
Manager floppy disk ( <a class="ext" href="http://btmgr.sourceforge.net/">http://btmgr.sourceforge.net/</a><span class="exttail">∞</span> ) to<br />
change that.<br />
<br />
Note: If you use <a title="Create this page" class="missingpage" href="http://puppylinux.org/wikka/QtParted/edit">QtParted</a> to make a FAT32 partition, you<br />
should use a <a title="Create this page" class="missingpage" href="http://puppylinux.org/wikka/Win98SE/edit">Win98SE</a> boot floppy to format the partition (no<br />
system files). I couldn't get QTparted to format a<br />
partition for me - something that Partition Magic does with<br />
ease. Also, I've had problems using the <a title="Create this page" class="missingpage" href="http://puppylinux.org/wikka/FreeDOS/edit">FreeDOS</a> (more on<br />
that to come, <a class="ext" href="http://www.freedos.org">http://www.freedos.org</a><span class="exttail">∞</span> ) format command, so I<br />
recommend using the format command from a Windoze or DOS<br />
boot diskette (or using Partition Magic to format).<br />
<br />
I now had:<br />
hda=<a title="Create this page" class="missingpage" href="http://puppylinux.org/wikka/Win98SE/edit">Win98SE</a> FAT32 10GB<br />
hbb=Linux EXT3 8GB<br />
hdc=Linux SWAP 1.4GB<br />
hdd=<a title="Create this page" class="missingpage" href="http://puppylinux.org/wikka/FreeDOS/edit">FreeDOS</a> FAT32 0.6GB<br />
<br />
I then booted from a <a title="Create this page" class="missingpage" href="http://puppylinux.org/wikka/FreeDOS/edit">FreeDOS</a> boot diskette and did 'sys D:'<br />
- you might have to replace the 'D:' with some other drive<br />
letter.<br />
<br />
I copied vmlinuzℑ.gz(from the Puppy Linux CD), and<br />
tiny.exe&autoexec.bat (from the Puppy Linux startup<br />
diskette) to the <a title="Create this page" class="missingpage" href="http://puppylinux.org/wikka/FreeDOS/edit">FreeDOS</a> drive.<br />
<br />
I then modified the autoexec.bat to show PHOME=hda4.<br />
<br />
And, I modified my lilo.conf to include the new <a title="Create this page" class="missingpage" href="http://puppylinux.org/wikka/FreeDOS/edit">FreeDOS</a><br />
partition. To get <a title="Create this page" class="missingpage" href="http://puppylinux.org/wikka/FreeDOS/edit">FreeDOS</a> booting correctly, I have to hide<br />
the Windoze partition and unhide the <a title="Create this page" class="missingpage" href="http://puppylinux.org/wikka/FreeDOS/edit">FreeDOS</a> partition (OK,<br />
honestly, I never have to un/hide the <a title="Create this page" class="missingpage" href="http://puppylinux.org/wikka/FreeDOS/edit">FreeDOS</a> partition, but<br />
why bother Windoze with its existence?).<br />
<br />
other=/dev/hda1<br />
label=<a title="Create this page" class="missingpage" href="http://puppylinux.org/wikka/Win98SE/edit">Win98SE</a><br />
table=/dev/hda<br />
change<br />
partition=/dev/hda1<br />
activate<br />
set=dos16_big_normal<br />
partition=/dev/hda4<br />
deactivate<br />
set=dos16_big_hidden<br />
other=/dev/hda4<br />
label=Puppy<br />
table=/dev/hda<br />
change<br />
partition=/dev/hda1<br />
deactivate<br />
set=dos16_big_hidden<br />
partition=/dev/hda4<br />
activate<br />
set=dos16_big_normal<br />
<br />
If you don't have any FAT partitions except for <a title="Create this page" class="missingpage" href="http://puppylinux.org/wikka/FreeDOS/edit">FreeDOS</a>, you<br />
can probably do this:<br />
<br />
other=/dev/hda4 # location of non-Linux OS, in this case<br />
<a title="Create this page" class="missingpage" href="http://puppylinux.org/wikka/FreeDOS/edit">FreeDOS</a><br />
label=Puppy # prompt label<br />
table=/dev/hda # partition table pass-through to the OS<br />
(might not need this).<br />
<br />
When all was said and done, I had a Puppy Linux hard disk<br />
install that only messed around inside of its own partition<br />
(that is, it creates its 500MB pup1 file inside the <a title="Create this page" class="missingpage" href="http://puppylinux.org/wikka/FreeDOS/edit">FreeDOS</a><br />
partition), and was bootable by LILO and ran itself inside<br />
RAM. Nice.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
Reply #1<br />
From: WMCreator (wmcreator AT collegeclub.com)<br />
Date: 07/26/2004<br />
<br />
Oops, I just noticed that some of the above comments spilled<br />
over. Read it as:<br />
<br />
other=/dev/hda4 # location of non-Linux...<br />
label=Puppy # prompt label...<br />
table=/dev/hda # partition table...<br />
<br />
<h5> Other Desktops </h5>
<br />
[<a class="ext" href="http://www.goosee.com/puppy/sforum/simpleforum_pro.cgi?fid=02&topic_id=1109374653">http://www.goosee.com/puppy/sforum/simpleforum_pro.cgi?fid=02&topic_id=1109374653</a><span class="exttail">∞</span> Using Fluxbox]<br />
<hr />
<br />
temp . . .<br />
<br />
more to follow as I av a go<br />
<br />
1. Install vmlinuz and image.gz<br />
<br />
When you boot up live-Puppy from a CD, mount the CD using "Puppy driver
mounter" (see the menu, under Start > File managers), and copy
vmlinuz and image.gz to the hard drive (and also usr_cram.fs if it
exists). let's use the Windows partition, the C: drive -- it will
probably already be mounted, at /mnt/cdrive, so use ROX to copy those
two files across. Place them in the top level "C:\" directory.<br />
2. Edit the boot manager<br />
<br />
So far I have only had experience with the Grub bootloader. Mount the
partition that has the /boot/grub directory. Right-click over the file
grub.conf and open it in a text editor. It will look something like as
follows, and you need to add the lines that I have shown in bold:<br />
<br />
<tt>default=1<br />
timeout=10<br />
splashimage=(hd0,4)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz<br />
title Red Hat Linux (2.4.18-14)<br />
</tt>
<div class="indent">
<tt> root (hd0,4)<br />
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.18-14 ro root=LABEL=/ hdc=ide-scsi<br />
initrd /boot/initrd-2.4.18-14.img</tt>
</div>
<tt>title DOS<br />
</tt>
<div class="indent">
<tt> rootnoverify (hd0,0)<br />
chainloader +1</tt>
</div>
<tt>title Puppy Linux<br />
</tt>
<div class="indent">
<tt> rootnoverify (hd0,0)<br />
kernel /vmlinuz root=/dev/ram0 PFILE=pup1-none-524288 PHOME=hda1<br />
initrd /image.gz</tt>
</div>
<br />
An important thing to understand here is that "(hd0,0)" refers to hda1, "(hd0,4)" is hda5 and "(hd0,2)" is hda3.<br />
<br />
Apart from editing grub.conf, nothing else is required, as the
bootloader will automatically look at that file during booting. Some
other bootloaders may need an extra step to install the changes.<br />
3. Reboot<br />
<br />
That's it, Puppy should start<br />
<br />
When you get Puppy installed in this very cautious way, you might like
to read further down this page to the "take two" instructions, to see
how to configure a boot manager.<br />
<br />
Puppy v0.9.0 added an extra option to the install-to-hard-drive script.
"Option 2" is to install Puppy such that no ramdisk is used. This
requires that Puppy take over an entire partition. It is up to you to
have such a spare partition. The script will convert it into an ext2
filesystem, if it wasn't before.<br />
Option 2 is good for developers, as the /usr folder is not compressed and is read/write.<br />
<br />
Puppy v0.9.8 added an "upgrade" option to the install script, if you
are upgrading from a previous installation. All you do is download the
latest live-CD ISO file, burn it to CD, boot up on it, then run the
install-to-hard-drive script and when it asks whether you are doing a
new installation or upgrade, you answer appropriately.<br />
<br />
<br />
<hr />
<br />
<b>Simple Grub:</b> <br />
<div class="indent">
<br />
This is a simple intro to Grub for people who have Puppy installed as the only operating system on a hard drive in a ext2fs.<br />
If other filesystems are used I can post the stage1_5 files required.<br />
If you dont like this or find it confusing please post a reply as this is a tentative attempt to supply some information.<br />
<br />
<br />
<a class="ext" href="http://www.goosee.com/puppy/sforum/simpleforum_files/attachments/pup-grub.tar.gz">http://www.goosee.com/puppy/sforum/simpleforum_files/attachments/pup-grub.tar.gz</a><span class="exttail">∞</span>
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<hr />
<br />
<b>Simple HD install with Grub bootmanager</b> <br />
<div class="indent">
<br />
Requirements:<br />
* Puppy live CD<br />
* grub executable and files /boot/grub/* - get: <a class="ext" href="http://www.goosee.com/puppy/sforum/simpleforum_files/attachments/Grub.zip">http://www.goosee.com/puppy/sforum/simpleforum_files/attachments/Grub.zip</a><span class="exttail">∞</span>
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<br />
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Steps:<br />
1. boot off puppy live cd<br />
2. cfdisk hda - create hda1 bootable partition of type linux (min. 400MB). save your work!<br />
3. mkfs.ext2 /dev/hda1 - create ext2 file system on hda1.<br />
4. get access to grub executable. Use my grub.zip file. unzip. you should see grub (elf exe) and<br />
directory boot/grub/* with file menu.lst. menu.lst is already setup for Puppy on hd(0,0) (hda1) only!<br />
5. copy required file to hda1:<br />
5.1 mount puppy live cd via drive mounter wizard (mount /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom).<br />
5.2 mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/data<br />
5.3 cp /mnt/cdrom/vmlinuz /mnt/data<br />
5.4 cp /mnt/cdrom/image.gz /mnt/data<br />
5.5 cp /mnt/cdrom/usr_cram.fs /mnt/data<br />
5.6 mkdir -p /mnt/data/boot/grub<br />
5.7 cp boot/grub/* /mnt/data/boot/grub<br />
6. setup grub on hda<br />
6.1 grub<br />
grub> root hd(0,0)<br />
...<br />
grub> setup hd(0)<br />
...<br />
Done.<br />
grub> quit
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<div class="indent">
Thats it!
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<br />
<div class="indent">
If one created a different partition for hd install, menu.lst and some statements above MUST be changed<br />
accordingly:<br />
primary ide channel<br />
1st ide hd; 1st primary part. hda1 hd0,0<br />
1st ide hd; 2nd primary part. hda2 hd0,1<br />
1st ide hd; 3rd primary part. hda3 hd0,2<br />
1st ide hd; 4th primary part. hda4 hd0,3<br />
<br />
2nd ide hd; 1st primary part. hdb1 hd1,0<br />
2nd ide hd; 2nd primary part. hdb2 hd1,1<br />
...
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<div class="indent">
Peter.Sieg@gmx.de<br />
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<br />
</div>
<a class="ext" href="http://www.goosee.com/puppy/sforum/simpleforum_files/attachments/Grub.zip">http://www.goosee.com/puppy/sforum/simpleforum_files/attachments/Grub.zip</a><span class="exttail">∞</span>
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<br />
<br />
<hr />
<br />
<b>Simple Grub Win/Puppy Boot CD:</b> <br />
<br />
<div class="indent">
This is a simple <a href="http://puppylinux.org/wikka/HowTo">HowTo</a> on creating a Grub boot CD to boot Puppy if you have it installed in a Win fat32 partition.<br />
Just download the file to my-applications, open rxvt, cd to my-applications and type in :<br />
<br />
<br />
tar zxvf simplegrub_cdboot.tar.gz<br />
<br />
This will open the file and you can take it from there.<br />
<br />
If you don't understand or find the instructions confusing please post a reply.<br />
<br />
<a class="ext" href="http://www.goosee.com/puppy/sforum/simpleforum_files/attachments/simplegrub_cdboot.tar.gz">http://www.goosee.com/puppy/sforum/simpleforum_files/attachments/simplegrub_cdboot.tar.gz</a><span class="exttail">∞</span>
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