Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

The standard Frugal Puppy Installer will allow you to boot in either mode.
BigPup has outlined the steps above.
You don't need anything else.
There are a couple of things you need to watch out for though.
Your puppy needs to be updated to get the Frugal Pup Installer. The ISO (for Bionic Pup at ...

@Trapster
I tried this but it didn't work with Bionic Pup 64. Thanks anyway.

williams2
ccrypt has been replaced by Bcrypt. It's fine, works well but is limited to files and as far as I've tried out, text files only.
encrypt seems to work but it's a bit cumbersome.

Packit, using 7zip, second pass ...

The encryption offered at first shutdown seems to have problems. Probably not the best route. Really needs to be 100% reliable.
Having the full Zip suite in the package (Bionic 64) is great and the zip and password options for selected file types works well and seems, from what I've read to be ...

mikeslr
I had a look at VeraCrypt and ZuluCrypt which is in one of the repositories. I couldn't get either to work despite there apparently being no dependancy problems.

Packit, single pass with zip and a password may do the trick, but I haven't found anything that says it's encrypted, just ...

Puppy Linux Bionic Pup 64 bit.
Frugal install on USB.

I've used ccrypt to encrypt files but I would like to encrypt an entire directory. What is the simplest way of going about this?

bigpup
I've tried out my odd installation on a few machines now and so far it's worked on all.
I was/am so pleased to have puppy working that I decided to install it on the eMMC card in the N33 Mini PC.
I tried the installation process you advised in the posts above and it worked.
One interesting ...

@Jarrett :-

Sorry for any perceived 'insult'. No offence was intended. My apologies. The last thing I want is people leaving the community in a huff due to any 'bad behaviour' on MY part....

It's true; being semi-retired, and a full-time carer as well, means I do have a lot of spare time on my ...

mikewalsh

I may not have made myself clear it seems.
I started off with Linux Mint on the eMMC machine main hard drive and an unaltered copy of Bionic Pup installed (not ISO) on one of the flash drives. This was unpacked and 'burnt' to the flash drive using the application in Linux Mint.

It's ...

Right...
I booted up my newly installed Bionic Pup 64 bit. Boots fine.
I then used Gparted to shrink the Fat32 partition down to 2 GB. It may be possible to shrink it even smaller. I'll look into this.
I then made a new primary partition in the remaining space and formatted to Ex 4.
At shutdown I ...

Okay, I have at least got a bootable installation of Bionic Pup 64.
Given the post above it seems that my machine (details in a few posts above) won't read Ext partitions at boot so won't find puppy itself, just the boot stuff in the Fat partition.
So, I formatted the flash disk all Fat 32 and sent ...

Where the Bionicpup iso is located is not an issue.
However, best if it is on a different drive from the one being installed on.
Takes time to read from the drive and than write to the same drive.


I formatted a 16GB Scan Disc Cruzer Fit flash drive using Gparted.
Partition 1; Fat 32 300MB and ...

:roll:

Actually, I really don't know why Jarrett has bothered to ask about this at all, since he clearly knows FAR more about Puppy than 'mere' long-term Puppy users can help him with! Ah, don't mind me; I'm having 'one of those days'.....


Mike. ;)
Puppy "stuff" ~ MORE Puppy "stuff ...

I'll respond to other posts once I've finished fiddling.
This is for BigPup.

I’m beginning to feel like a man who has walked into a church holding a full congregation and shouted God doesn’t exist. The evidence supports the statement, but faith overrides the evidence and the man gets stoned to ...

Having spent most of the day on this I've come to the conclusion that I'm wasting my time. It does not seem to be feasible (it may well be possible with extensive linux knowledge) to make an install to a 16gig flash drive and have the rest of the drive available for storage of any file size.
That's ...

Just tried out Bionic Pup install on the N33 mini PC.
It seemed to install fine until it came to loading Grub4Dos. I couldn't find anywhere to put it because all the boot stuff is in it's own partition.
I'm sure it's possible to alter this partition but it's beyond my comfort zone.
Tried to run ...

It's pissing down here (Spain) so my planned day is washed out and I've fiddled some more.
I've got Bionic Pup 64 bit on a flash drive. I just went through the standard install having formatted the flash drive, kept the drive as a single primary partition formatted to Fat 32.
No problems.
But when I ...

If you can get Bionicpup64 8.0 running.

You can do an install to USB using the frugalpup Installer.
It can install a boot loader that works with legacy bios or UEFI or both.

If you run Quickpet->Info->Bionicpup updates
It should download and install Frugalpup Installer.
menu->Setup->Frugalpup ...

Easy.

On your 16 GB (or larger) flash drive, create a 4 GB partition for Puppy....though as Jafa says, it appears facts are getting confused here. You could make the FAT32 partition bigger! Anyway, run Puppy from there, and create your save-file on there.

The remainder of the drive, format to ...

Thanks everyone for the responses.
I haven't had the time to try any of the above. I think I'll try out Bigpups method first.
I may get that done this coming Sunday.

I've got the 32 bit version of Xenial pup working as a full install on a flash drive currently, but it won't boot on this:
Mini ...

I think there is a way to use exFat in Puppy but I don't know much more than that about it.

You could format the flash drive with a FAT32 partition to install Puppy in, and the rest of the drive as NTFS. Both Puppy and Windows can see and use either partition.

I must admit, I haven't tried ...

I'm trying to make a 16GB flash drive that uses Bionic Pup 64 bit, that will boot on any machine including some tablets.
The problem is, I need more than the 4 GB space allowed by Fat 32, I also need UEFI boot capabilities.
It seems not many, if any computers running Windows will allow booting from ...

I had xenial pup running ona couple of machines for a while. Apart from my hamfisted hackings it worked well until a MOB packed up.
I managed to rescue what I needed; I don't keep much on the computer, prefering to back up and store on detachable storage.
Most of my hardware is now "of that age" and ...