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My example of "Pup32" was just an example...use the exact name of the directory (folder in Windows speak) that you installed your Bookworm Pup into. Also, what williams2 says is also correct, it may not even be needed. If how much RAM you actually have is only like 512megabytes, it may be advisable ...

32 bit addresses allows you to access no more than 4G of ram. If you have 8G of ram, only 4G will be seen by the operating system. PAE is a hack that allows you to access most of the 8G of ram. but one 4G block at a time. If you have less than 4G of ram, you do NOT need PAE. A few defective 32 bit ...

IIRC, this goes on the "kernel" line, such as kernel /Pup32/vmlinuz --forcepae, note the double dashes (--) in the grub4dos menu.lst (little L). Wiz Thanks Wiz. The interaction now looks like this: grub> kernel /Pup32/vmlinuz --forcepae Error 15:(http://grub4dos.chenall.net/e/15) File not found ...

Hello again! I'm attempting to load bookworm PUP32 from DVD onto a very old Fujitsu notebook presently running Windows XP. The error message reads: WARNING: PAE disabled. Use parameter 'forcepae' to enable at your own risk! The problem is that I can't find a place to use that parameter. I tried ...

Andy, glad you got sorted with the satellite. those are cool old machines. If you hover your mouse over the usb icon in the lower left of the screen and see that you are booting an 9660 iso, you are in a live boot, but puppy offers so much more with persistence. unfortunately an install with balena ...

@Andy Kay :- Hallo.......and :welcome: to the "kennels"! .... Mike. :D Thanks for the welcome Mike. Now I'm gaining confidence and also a growing appreciation of this particular notebook (the build quality is superb) I've decided it's worth spdending a few quid on a small SSD for it. This is a ...

cobaka wrote: ↑Sun Jun 09, 2024 1:28 am

Hi @Andy Kay and a hearty "woof" to you.
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That's a useful link thanks Cobaka. I will play with the Puppy variants when I have the time now that I'm more confident about what I'm doing.

@Andy Kay Couldn't find out much about your Toshiba, but looks like from about 2007 and it could be a Intel dual core. Boot Pup then: Menu>System>Pup Sysinfo This should let you find the CPU and ram memory, let us know what those are. Also, if it is a dual core it can probably boot from USB. Insert ...

This is not the latest version of BookwormPup64 You need to be using BookwormPup64 v10.0.6 It uses Linux kernel 6.1.76, which does provide some needed updates. And this newer version fixes some bugs and overall improvements. You can get it here: https://forum.puppylinux.com/viewtopic.php?t=8690 Doh ...

Of course people are helping you quite well, but I get nervous about this HD/no HD situation because it's hard to tell for sure. Can you please open a terminal session, run this command... # fdisk -l (it's a dash and the small letter L at the end) ...and copy/paste the output? That will really ...

rockedge wrote: ↑Sat Jun 08, 2024 11:06 pm

Ever try the PLOP boot manager? It can be burned to CD-ROM and after booting it first, PLOP can enable booting from the USB ports on machines that are too old to have BIOS that can boot from the USB ports.

To get to PLOP click HERE

Thanks Rockedge! Definitely going to investigate that!

@Andy Kay does the laptop have USB ports? Might be possible to boot from the CD-ROM and use a properly formatted USB drive for saving the sessions...or boot and run a Puppy Linux from the USB drive like it's a HDD. I have a 2002 IBM T-42 ThinkPad that has no battery no hard drive. Both devices died ...

Sure there is a Puppy for you! Puppies boot and operate quite well from a USB thumb drive! Obtain one with at least 4 gb storage, 8 gb better, 16 gb probably best, and you can install 2 or 3 Pups of different flavors... such as your BookwormPup, or one of the Slackware based, I like Peabee's S15Pup ...

bigpup wrote: ↑Sat Jun 08, 2024 4:20 pm

So what drive icons are you seeing on the desktop????

Only sr0 showing on the desktop. No HDD then. Previous owner must have removed it before giving the laptop to me. No puppy for me then.

Thanks Mike. I get: Partition = /dev/sr0 File System = iso 9660 Label = CDROM Size = 747.00 MiB Hmmm.... beginning to look like there's no HDD. Could be, since I was asked if I wanted the laptop prior to binning it, and the original owner may have (not unreasonably) removed the HDD first for ...

So sorry if this has been asked a hundred times before but I find these forums a bit bewildering. Toshiba Stallite U300-14B Model PSU30E-04M01SEN Originally installed with Microsoft Vista Home Premium Puppypc26924 Bookworm Pup64 Linux 6.1.38 Presently running from DVD and I would like to install to ...