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JASpup Flash The boot managers in your link are far more sophisticated than required for a XP/Puppy dual boot on a bios hdd. Windows XP has a far simpler boot manager system and no partitioning is needed. Here's an overview: -boot XP -create a c:\puppy folder -copy the puppy boot files into c ...

Flash According to the web the 2650 will have a Intel P4 or maybe a Celeron. The USB is 1.1 so it would be really slooooow to boot. Bigpup's recommendation for Precise Lite is good. One of the ways to get Puppy onto the hdd is to extract the files from the ISO onto a usb and then copy that to a ...

But why do so many new users have to ask for help? Because things are not selfexplaining in most cases. Your question is the one I ask myself. I see the same questions being ask many times in the forums. And as you said, they are questions I had as a new user. I started out with puppy version 1.04 ...

Your help text at the top of the app reads "Add a Launcher to your desktop. Click on app to add it to pinboard.". If I put on my "no nothing" hat, I ask what's a launcher? What's a pinboard" Since the user just wants to put an icon on the desktop, maybe "Add a Launcher icon to your desktop. Click on ...

@andrewlen

You might want to try the Tree and two panels view. It lets you easily compare files and directories plus quickly copy or move between them.

wizard

Add Unetbootin v702 to the list of USB imaging programs that don't create a ISO9660 formated drive. Unetbootin for linux is a single .bin file, it does require mtools which is available from the ppm. Also, as an experiment I downloaded Stickpup v20 from the fossa64 9.5 ppm and installed it in both ...

The only two USB installers I've used that doesn't format the drive as ISO9660 are Rufus (Windows) and fossa64 9.5 - Stickpup v20

wizard

Assume you are using fossa32 and that sda3 is third partition on a hd. If sda3 is formatted it should display a partition icon on the desktop. Try running menu>system>gparted to find out how sda3 is formatted.

wizard

You are correct it can be done, one of my 32bit computers does not support usb booting in bios, so I use PLOP boot manager to add that.

wizard

Some more tips: If you are booting a frugal install, the instructions in the first post should work fine. However, If you are booting from a usb flash or using pupmode 13 any files or directories you put in /mnt are not saved and will be gone on the next boot. Here are some work arounds: 1.-just put ...

@andrewlen

XFE is my file manager of choice, followed by pcmanfm. Here is a link to an XFE howto that you may find useful.

viewtopic.php?t=3733

wizard

After some more testing on putting the savefile on a different partition, it is simpler than I first thought. You just have to tell puppy where you want the savefile to go during the first boot. I revised the "howto" in the post above to reflect that.

wizard

@gilles
A couple of things to keep in mind about old computers. Some of them are not able to boot from USB and some may only have USB v1.1 which means they will boot really sloooooow.

wizard

gilles Sorry for the late reply, I missed your message on the 26th. I'm not sure what happened with bionic32 since the usb I made with unetbootin 702 booted on my 32 bit netbook. The file I downloaded from sourceforge was: unetbootin-linux-702.bin. Anyway, it looks like you accomplished your goal ...

@andrewlen

My bad, fat fingered something, the link in the post above has been corrected.

wizard

andrewlen My experience with using vbox extensions has been hit and miss. I just made a file share on my Windows computer and use Puppy's menu>network>Yassm Samba share mounter to open (mount) the folder. You do need to use Yassm v4.2 or higher, I've included a link to 4.5. This always works with ...

Ventoy, how to put a puppy savefile in another partition In this example, the Ventoy usb was created with a third partition (during setup by reserving space, then formatting with gparted) The third partition is sdb3 in this example. Assuming the Ventoy usb is sdb: -boot Puppy using Ventoy (example ...

andrewlen My experience with using vbox extensions has been hit and miss. I just made a file share on my Windows computer and use Puppy's menu>network>Yassm Samba share mounter to open (mount) the folder. You do need to use Yassm v4.2 or higher, I've included a link to 4.5. This always works with ...

rockedge I'm not sure what qualifies as Live except that it can be used without install. The 2 Ubuntus are the latest Clonezilla and Rescuezilla iso's downloaded from their sites and can be installed to a usb, so I think they would be live versions. Also not sure where to check if the puppy iso's ...

@wiak

Just to note all of the iso files, 3 Puppy, 2 Ubuntu (the "zillas"), 1 Win7 and 1 Win10 booted without problems. It would be interesting to see if WDL would boot without the special code.

wizard

Ventoy 1.0.55 for linux installed to Sandisk 16gb usb 2.0 (sdb) Configuration 1: sdb1=fat32, iso file partition (reformatted after setup using gparted) sdb2=fat16, Ventoy boot partition ISO partition sdb1: -3 Puppy linux, Precise 5.71, Stretch 7.5, and Fossa64 9.5 -Firefox portable, puppy linux ...

number77 If your goal is to learn how to make a iso copy that can be restored creating a bootable usb then do that. If however, you just want to backup the bootable usb I suggest you try either: Clonezilla, and you already know not to try the version in the ppm, instead download the iso from their ...

Even if you can't recover the bad save file itself, you should be able to recover any photos, documents, etc. that were on the bad save file.

wizard

You should disregard my reference to fossa64 9.5 since I only used it to find the problem and document the fix. The steps to fix should be the same for your xenial64. In one of your post above you said you deleted all the clonezilla files you could find. My question is, did you make a copy of the ...

Did some testing on fossa64 9.5 and guess that it will be the same on your xenial64. Here is a archive that contains 2 files, overall_install_report.txt and login_4.8.1.files . My test showed that the login_4.8.1 package was the one keeping the system from booting so delete those files first and try ...

I have not tried it, by my knowledge it would be possible, but a very convoluted process.

wizard

Same problem in fossa64, reported here:

viewtopic.php?t=4151

wizard

I created a usb with unetbootin 506 and it would not boot on my netbook. Created again with unetbootin 702 and it does boot. Give that a try.

wizard

Try creating the usb using: menu>setup>stickpup-usb stick installer. I've install fossa64 9.5 on lots of old dual cores and pentium D's.

wizard

Keep in mind my usb was created with: Bootflash install Puppy to USB. i have booted it on both 64bit and 32bit computers including an Acer Aspire One netbook which has an atom n270 32bit cpu. Do you get any error messages when trying to boot?

wizard