Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

@bigpup, to summarize in my own words, Frugal is to install with more options (or multiple copies) to a hard drive, Boot Flash is a special type of frugal installation for flash drive, and the original live boot is a special Boot Flash. May not be 100% precise, it helps me to understand them. I've ...

bugnaw333 wrote: Sat Feb 18, 2023 11:06 am

I have no problem using EasyOS dd:

ok, now I heard of EasyOS, looks interesting.

@tiam :- Hallo.....and :welcome: to the "kennels"!

Let's address your points in order.

a) One thing that anybody coming from other Linux distros has to get their heads round is this; that "Puppy" is one of the very few Linux distros out there that WILL NOT work with Balena Etcher. Every tech ...

Thanks everyone, it's a lot information. I think this is a important issue that worth more words on the homepage than only mentioning DD (whose download link is offline).

I'm a little busy right now so I can't reply to each post, but I will read all the stuff here.

Just a report after finally installed fossa on a USB stick. It's tricky.

First, BalenaEtcher doesn't work. Grub says no kernel and it messed up partitions that Windows can't recognize nor format it. I even bought a new one still same. After many tries I gave up. By the way Windows diskpart, chkdsk ...