I have moved on for now at least. I have submitted my article to the C# Corner web site; see Installing Puppy Linux To A Dedicated Partition.
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- Wed Feb 23, 2022 8:10 am
- Forum: Beginners Help
- Topic: My article "Installing Puppy Linux"
- Replies: 27
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- Wed Dec 29, 2021 6:50 am
- Forum: Users
- Topic: Learning C: getting Devx and what do I do next? (Solved!)
- Replies: 36
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Re: Learning C: getting Devx and what do I do next? (Solved!)
Perhaps it's a matter of semantics. Do you consider "ncurses" to be a UI library? A Linux terminal emulator window is certainly capable of some some degree of "graphics." Note that a UI can be graphical or non-graphical. A GUI by definition uses graphics. ncurses manipulates tex...
- Wed Dec 29, 2021 3:58 am
- Forum: Users
- Topic: Learning C: getting Devx and what do I do next? (Solved!)
- Replies: 36
- Views: 2470
Re: Learning C: getting Devx and what do I do next? (Solved!)
The confusion between "console" and "terminal" has gotten so messy that I prefer to avoid the whole mess and stick to "command line interface," or CLI. I think a good definition of a C or C++ console or a terminal application is one that supports the language standard ...
- Tue Dec 28, 2021 11:10 pm
- Forum: Users
- Topic: Learning C: getting Devx and what do I do next? (Solved!)
- Replies: 36
- Views: 2470
Re: Learning C: getting Devx and what do I do next? (Solved!)
And I came here attempting to find something describing what is available in Devx for developing console (called terminal in Linux?) programs. I see the program for developing GUI applications. I do not see an answer here but I will create a new question if I do not find answers elsewhere.
- Tue Dec 28, 2021 11:02 pm
- Forum: Users
- Topic: Learning C: getting Devx and what do I do next? (Solved!)
- Replies: 36
- Views: 2470
Re: Learning C: getting Devx and what do I do next?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_C_Programming_Language As that wikipedia article on K&R book states: [The C Programming Language] written by Brian Kernighan and Dennis Ritchie, the latter of whom originally designed and implemented the language, as well as co-designed the Unix operating syste...
- Tue Dec 21, 2021 12:48 am
- Forum: Beginners Help
- Topic: installation for Secure Boot failed
- Replies: 16
- Views: 2254
Re: installation for Secure Boot failed
I am a beginner but I thought that we must be in UEFI mode to create a system to be booted in UEFI mode. I have only used Lick to create a Puppy system. I did for a thumb drive and it boots using UEFI. I also created a Puppy in a 471 MB partition in my SSD but that is quite tight. Lick did the form...
- Fri Dec 17, 2021 2:03 am
- Forum: Beginners Help
- Topic: My article "Installing Puppy Linux"
- Replies: 27
- Views: 1409
Re: My article "Installing Puppy Linux"
I have updated the beginning of the article. The following is an excerpt of relevant parts. There are two ways to install a Puppy; Frugal or Full. Puppy developers are beginning to avoid supporting Full installs and Puppy enthusiasts use Full installs much less than Frugal installs so as a beginner ...
- Fri Dec 17, 2021 1:41 am
- Forum: Beginners Help
- Topic: My article "Installing Puppy Linux"
- Replies: 27
- Views: 1409
Re: My article "Installing Puppy Linux"
When you use Lick to install Puppy to a Windows partition, it just makes a standard folder and puts a few Puppy files in it, that's all, no other changes except loading the grub boot loader. Thank you. I believe you that few other Linux distributions are like that. I thought I read otherwise but I ...
- Fri Dec 17, 2021 12:06 am
- Forum: Beginners Help
- Topic: My article "Installing Puppy Linux"
- Replies: 27
- Views: 1409
Re: My article "Installing Puppy Linux"
Although you can use lick to install to a new partition, one of Lick's primary advantages is letting it put the Puppy files in a folder on the Windows partition, no repartitioning required and no issue with creating a larger save file. Are there other Linux distributions (not Puppies) that that can...
- Thu Dec 16, 2021 11:00 pm
- Forum: Beginners Help
- Topic: My article "Installing Puppy Linux"
- Replies: 27
- Views: 1409
Re: My article "Installing Puppy Linux"
I have written an article Installing Puppy Linux and put it in my website but I am not sure what to do with it. It needs more work. I am interested in comments and suggestions and especially corrections. "Installing Puppy Linux to a Dedicated Partition" perhaps would be a better title? Af...
- Thu Dec 16, 2021 9:56 pm
- Forum: Beginners Help
- Topic: My article "Installing Puppy Linux"
- Replies: 27
- Views: 1409
Re: My article "Installing Puppy Linux"
I think the thing I need help with the most is the setup during the first shutdown. Much of that I do not understand and I think it would help anyone using a Puppy for the first time to have some help understanding what to do. Often familiarity, knowing to much, is a handicap when writing howto's. ...
- Thu Dec 16, 2021 9:11 pm
- Forum: Beginners Help
- Topic: My article "Installing Puppy Linux"
- Replies: 27
- Views: 1409
Re: My article "Installing Puppy Linux"
Hi Sam, Take a look at this topic: https://forum.puppylinux.com/viewtopic.php?t=4681 if you download the ISO and run it you'll find find multiple howto documents on installing Puppy. They are illustrated and are click-by-click. Feel free to use all or any part of them. Currently they only cover the...
- Thu Dec 16, 2021 9:05 pm
- Forum: Beginners Help
- Topic: My article "Installing Puppy Linux"
- Replies: 27
- Views: 1409
Re: My article "Installing Puppy Linux"
I like it. Lots of work went in to it and I will read it over thoroughly, and help out if I see anything to add or subtract. Thank you. Yes it took more time than I expected originally. I think the thing I need help with the most is the setup during the first shutdown. Much of that I do not underst...
- Thu Dec 16, 2021 6:14 pm
- Forum: Beginners Help
- Topic: My article "Installing Puppy Linux"
- Replies: 27
- Views: 1409
Re: My article "Installing Puppy Linux"
do not say anything about full installs. Puppy Linux has stopped trying to support full installs and all new or newer versions, are designed to work as a frugal or live install. Some features only work in a frugal or live install. A live install is burning the iso image to a CD/DVD or USB stick. Ba...
- Thu Dec 16, 2021 7:53 am
- Forum: Beginners Help
- Topic: My article "Installing Puppy Linux"
- Replies: 27
- Views: 1409
My article "Installing Puppy Linux"
I have written an article Installing Puppy Linux and put it in my website but I am not sure what to do with it. It needs more work. I am interested in comments and suggestions and especially corrections.
- Wed Dec 15, 2021 11:30 pm
- Forum: Beginners Help
- Topic: installation for Secure Boot failed
- Replies: 16
- Views: 2254
Re: installation for Secure Boot failed
I am a beginner but I thought that we must be in UEFI mode to create a system to be booted in UEFI mode. I have only used Lick to create a Puppy system. I did for a thumb drive and it boots using UEFI. I also created a Puppy in a 471 MB partition in my SSD but that is quite tight. Lick did the forma...
- Fri Dec 10, 2021 11:17 am
- Forum: Beginners Help
- Topic: How to install Puppy to an existing partition; use Windows or USB
- Replies: 31
- Views: 5037
- Fri Dec 10, 2021 10:08 am
- Forum: Beginners Help
- Topic: How to install Puppy to an existing partition; use Windows or USB
- Replies: 31
- Views: 5037
Re: How to install Puppy to an existing partition; use Windows or USB
Just curious if you have a second disk on board? with a partition or more space available? also, if your machine has a USB3 port, a flash drive will give pretty good performance. more than you might expect, as puppy is made to load into memory off a USB. if your pup is installed on a linux partitio...
- Fri Dec 10, 2021 7:02 am
- Forum: Beginners Help
- Topic: How to install Puppy to an existing partition; use Windows or USB
- Replies: 31
- Views: 5037
Re: How to install Puppy to an existing partition; use Windows or USB
can you take a screenshot of pmount? I am not sure I understand but the following is an image from a pMount command of the relevant drive. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1_NL09mn3leHr1o8R4k427sDkWSbFncHe/view?usp=sharing So yes I probably ran out of room. Is it possible to delete stuff in the save...
- Fri Dec 10, 2021 5:13 am
- Forum: Beginners Help
- Topic: How to install Puppy to an existing partition; use Windows or USB
- Replies: 31
- Views: 5037
Re: How to install Puppy to an existing partition; use Windows or USB
I am still processing the reply from about 5 hours previous to the following reply. I think my save file has gotten to be about as big as it can get so the following seems to be the priority. I think you used Lick. If so, that configuration file is named lickgrub.cfg. It's just a text file. Having b...
- Fri Dec 03, 2021 10:27 pm
- Forum: Beginners Help
- Topic: How to install Puppy to an existing partition; use Windows or USB
- Replies: 31
- Views: 5037
Re: How to install Puppy to an existing partition; use Windows or USB
It really helps to know where that boot stuff (menu) is at. And that was intended as a statement, not a question. I could edit the file in Windows but I do not know how critical it is to get the correct line endings and encoding. The file is a text file (no BOM) and has Windows line endings (CRLF)....
- Fri Dec 03, 2021 9:15 pm
- Forum: Beginners Help
- Topic: How to install Puppy to an existing partition; use Windows or USB
- Replies: 31
- Views: 5037
Re: How to install Puppy to an existing partition; use Windows or USB
Thank you for all the explanations and instructions. I think you used Lick. If so, that configuration file is named lickgrub.cfg. It's just a text file. Having booted into Fossapup you can file-browse to it, Right-Click it and open it in geany or a text-editor. Yes I see a lickgrub.cfg in my Windows...
- Fri Dec 03, 2021 8:04 pm
- Forum: Beginners Help
- Topic: How to install Puppy to an existing partition; use Windows or USB
- Replies: 31
- Views: 5037
Re: How to install Puppy to an existing partition; use Windows or USB
You don't have a great deal of flexibility with only a 55 Mb SaveFile. But if you know some tricks, it's more than enough. That is good. I suspected I could use the other drives/partitions but I did not see anything initially. I was going to look for possibilities. A little clarification might help...
- Fri Dec 03, 2021 8:43 am
- Forum: Beginners Help
- Topic: How to install Puppy to an existing partition; use Windows or USB
- Replies: 31
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Re: How to install Puppy to an existing partition; use Windows or USB
I said the partition is 450 MB but it is actually 471 MB, formatted NTFS. I went ahead and tried to install Puppy into it and it got there in a flash. For the save file it suggested 32 MB and said the max space available is 55 MB. So I made it 55 MB. The partition has 467 MB used and 4 MB free. It w...
- Fri Dec 03, 2021 6:56 am
- Forum: Beginners Help
- Topic: How to install Puppy to an existing partition; use Windows or USB
- Replies: 31
- Views: 5037
Re: How to install Puppy to an existing partition; use Windows or USB
My bionicpup32 frugal install uses 274 MB - the OS will be expanded into RAM (which you have plenty, 16 GB). Fossapup64 takes 409 MB - so it will fit also into your 450 MB partition. Thank you for that. I was going to try installing Fossapup64 because I suspected it might work. It is good to know t...
- Thu Dec 02, 2021 7:16 am
- Forum: Beginners Help
- Topic: How to install Puppy to an existing partition; use Windows or USB
- Replies: 31
- Views: 5037
Re: How to install Puppy to an existing partition; use Windows or USB
You didn't say what you intend to use the puppy for, or the age/specs of your hardware. there are older (and smaller) puppies you might find useful Sorry. I have an Asus M52BC desktop computer with an AMD FX-8300 Eight-Core Processor and 16 GB RAM. I just want the Puppy for educational purposes. I ...
- Thu Dec 02, 2021 6:43 am
- Forum: Beginners Help
- Topic: How to install Puppy to an existing partition; use Windows or USB
- Replies: 31
- Views: 5037
Re: How to install Puppy to an existing partition; use Windows or USB
Think about it; a Windows install will fit onto a standard DVD, thus anywhere up to around 4.5 GB.....but when it installs for real, that swells to well over 20 GB. That 300 MB, I think, probably refers to one of the older Puppies; See Windows 10 system requirements . It says: Hard disk space: 16 G...
- Wed Dec 01, 2021 9:46 pm
- Forum: Beginners Help
- Topic: How to install Puppy to an existing partition; use Windows or USB
- Replies: 31
- Views: 5037
Re: How to install Puppy to an existing partition; use Windows or USB
I have used Lick to create a thumb drive with a Puppy in it. One problem is that I redid the installation so now I have five choices in the Lick boot menu; one for Windows and two for each of the installs. I see that I can use Lick to uninstall the one that is not valid but I do not know how to dete...
- Mon Nov 29, 2021 1:33 am
- Forum: Beginners Help
- Topic: How to install Puppy to an existing partition; use Windows or USB
- Replies: 31
- Views: 5037
How to install Puppy to an existing partition; use Windows or USB
I have a SSD spare partition that is about 450 MB. I have formatted it as NTFS but I can reformat it if necessary. I think I want to do a full install of Puppy Linux into it and hopefully dual-boot with Windows 10. My understanding is that with a full install everything is persisted as would happen ...