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jaylcee

Thank you Puddlemoon for this remaster. Trying it since yesterday, so far so good. The idea of having such a light and portable music oriented distro is great!

jaylcee

What partition table is on the USB drive?
Use the Gparted program to look at the drive.
In view select device information.
Is it GPT or msdos partition table?

You are saying you never see the window that lists boot loader options to install?

Gparted says GPT. Shall I change something?

And no ...

jaylcee

Hello there,

after days and weeks of trying to understand why the heck my Bios/Uefi would refuse to boot from FAT32, I just accepted it and used a frugal install on a second USB stick, following Bigpup's method. It worked perfectly. The only thing I noticed was that Puppy Frugal Install did not ...

jaylcee

if my usb stick installation of Puppy is in fat32, I don't see the usb stick in the boot menu and can't boot from it but when the very same usb stick is in ISO9660, I can see it and boot from it.
I think you have computer that only boots from a CD or internal hard drive.
usb stick is in ISO9660 ...

jaylcee

Thanks Mikeslr, I am having a look at it.

How exactly are you booting to try and get it to select the USB to boot from?
You do what?
You see what?

if my usb stick installation of Puppy is in fat32, I don't see the usb stick in the boot menu and can't boot from it but when the very same usb ...

jaylcee

Hello Guys,

thank you very much for your replies and sorry for providing you with the wrong piece of information. The Laptop is indeed an ACER Travelmate P2410-G2-M-5260.

jaylcee

Thank you very much for your detailed reply Bigpup.

I try all the installers except Rufus and it seems that the boot menu of my ACER Timeline P2410 will not detect a usb stick formatted in FAT32, only ISO9660 The "secure boot" is already disabled and I don't have a Legacy option.

The problem seems ...

jaylcee

SOLVED: see post #2 (Thank you Bigpup)

Hello,

I came back to Puppy after a few years break and wanted to make good old a self-contained installation but can't find a way to do it. Back in the days, I would install the iso file on a USB stick on Windows 7 through Rufus or Unetbootin, boot with ...

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