General Question(s) about running Puppy in a Raspberry Pi 4 Starter Kit.

[Sky Aisling]

@bigpup
@Flash

Hello
I have some general question(s) about getting started with a Raspberry Pi machine.
I'm guessing that Flash will have an orange fit when I ask more than one question in a post.
Hoping he'll understand with this post's intent.

I was gifted at holiday time with a Raspberry Pi Cana KIt .
https://www.canakit.com/raspberry-pi-4-starter-kit.html

I have not yet put the unit together.

My understanding is that the SanDisk 32GB Class 10 MicroSD Card holds the operating software for the device.
The OS software on the card is not a Puppy distribution.

General Questions:

What is the name of the nascent OS on the card?
Where can I find what the nascent OS looks like?
Can I provide a new MicroSD card that holds a Puppy distro? Or do I need to re-organize the existing card to include a Pup?

I have found Raspup home site at: http://www.raspup.eezy.xyz/index.php which then leads to this forum.
Thank you to whoever put that site together. Was that you bigpup?

Sky

[Sky Aisling]

OK, I think I got it.
The software that is on the MicroSD card is an installer of whatever OS the user chooses to run. Right?
Sky

[user1111]

Barry (founder of Puppy) has been focussing on the pi recently ...
https://bkhome.org/news/202101/current- ... e-pi4.html

Don't own one myself (yet, but planning to), and would have though that the default supplied software would be Rasperian ... a form of Debian specific to the pi? Or as you say, a loader for the purpose of installing something else onto another SD card that you could then boot/use.

[bigpup]

OK, I think I got it.
The software that is on the MicroSD card is an installer of whatever OS the user chooses to run. Right?
Sky

The info that was on that web page you posted says the SD card has the NOOBS on it.
This is what NOOBS is
https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/introducing-noobs/

If you are going to use it as a general computer choose the Raspbian OS. Specifically for the Raspberry.
That is a general operating system that will run as a normal computer.
So it operates basically like any consumer OS.

As for Puppy.
If you have another SD card to just put Puppy on, that would be best to do.
Get some hands on using both OS's
Make sure to get the recommended version of Raspup?
http://raspup.eezy.xyz/notes.ph
Read the info on the notes page.
Follow the install procedure shown in the notes page.

I have run Raspup on my Pi 4. One suggestion is to use Barry K's EasyDD to burn the image file to the sd card. Its brilliant. Also check that you have a reasonable quality SD card, as IMHO slow storage devices may not boot correctly. EasyDD also tells you about the speed of the storage device so you have an idea of how it will potentially perform. I suspect the SD card memory size must also be large enough to handle the image.

[Sky Aisling]

Wow! This little Pi 4 is a Pandora's box of digital surprises!
Sky

[tony]

Hi,

Have been running version 8.2.0 for some months.

would like to update/upgrade to 8.2.1

Could someone walk me through this?

Regards Tony.