Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

Thanks rockedge I downloaded the 32bit pet file and am now playing around with it. Works pretty nicely. Takes some getting used to as its working through a vm. I would like to get direct access to the floppy and CD drives however rather than copy images of them. This is a basic question but can ...

Hi Puppy users Has anyone installed MS DOS after installing puppy and what is the best way to do this? My setup is bionicpup32 8.0 booting from the HDD. I have no other OS although Grub4Dos has the 'empty' boot option to Windows. By empty I mean it doesnt boot to anything. I have 2 partitions on my ...

Happy New Year ! and thanks! to all who replied. The write protection tab on the diskette was not engaged i.e. left open. An odd thing after shutting down for the day and coming back to this. The following command 'sudo mkfs.fat -a /dev/fd0 1440' now seems to work despite the error message that the ...

I hear you @cobaka and feel your pain. Take for example the way this forum is set up behind the scenes -- I have only posted twice but each time for some reason it times out and I have to log back in and in doing so my most recent 'thoughts' have all been lost and I have to retype them in, or save ...

I am having trouble formatting a 1.44 MB internal IDE diskette. (I've been asked get rid of my old diskettes - so I am hoping to either sell them or give them away to anyone who might still need them) I can access it, read and write, erase contents but I cannot format it for some reason. I have used ...

@cobaka Thank you for these detailed instructions as well as mikeslr's instructions! I wish I had these before trying to install puppy as it would have avoided a lot of frustration. It has been the most difficult OS I have tried to install. Why it is so challenging to install on a HDD when its so ...

Thanks to all who replied! Based on the replies, I did a bit of digging and found that there is no vmlinuz nor initrd.gz files on my HDD. They only reside on my CD. Should I copy them over and if so to where? I used to default puppy installer and I assume that puppy also has GRUB4DOS installed. So I ...

Hi all, I am new to linux. I have been running BionicPup 32 19.03 booting from CD on a Pentium 4 @ 2.6GHz, 1.5 GB RAM, with two HDDs: 45 GB and 250 GB previously running Windows XP Pro. It runs very well, a bit faster than XP and Light Browser is able to render modern webpages on this old system ...