Puppy universal installer destroys partition table

[Dingo]

I wonder if anyone other has noticed this behavior: in xenialpup64 when I try to use puppy universal installer to create a USB install from ISO, This task only ends in a erasement of partition table that makes drive unusable.

[rockedge]

Wow that I don't think that should be happening.

This is an attempted install FROM a Puppy Linux already on a USB drive TO an internal HDD ??

[Feek]

Hi Dingo,

I used the Puppy universal installer approx. 3 times in Bionicpup64.
At that time, I didn´t know about other install methods.
Only one of those 3 attempts was successful.
The installer created a usb stick with extlinux and it still works today.

The first time I used the universal installer I had the impression I was lost and that only experts could use it .
Later, I learned on the forum how to put only a bootloader on a usb stick and then copy the files for puppy manually.

If your bios uses legacy boot, you can try grub4dos config to create the usb install.
I would check if the version in Xenial is not too outdated and if so, I would install a newer one.

[Dingo]

Wow that I don't think that should be happening.

This is an attempted install FROM a Puppy Linux already on a USB drive TO an internal HDD ??

I was trying to create a live USB from an ISO

What happens is that after universal installer pops out the message: "now drive is bootable", the USB stick icon disappears from pi board. Checking with pmount, it results unmountable because of lacking of partition table

This happens with xenialpup64 7.5 CE

[rockedge]

I understand. This will need to be looked at closer to see what is going wrong. Thanks for the tip.

Did you try this more than once with the same result?

[Dingo]

I understand. This will need to be looked at closer to see what is going wrong. Thanks for the tip.

Did you try this more than once with the same result?

Yes, I tried many times and obtained the same result every time

[bigpup]

The Universal Installer has a lot of options and it is easy to do something wrong.
Plus, it is not setup to do a working install for booting on UEFI computers.

Really, now it is not good to use to do installs.
It is very much in need of code rewrite.

I just tried it with my install of Xenialpup64 7.5.

It made a bootable USB with Xenialpup64 7.5 on it.
Partition table is there and doing what it should do.

The Universal Installer will only do a correct install of the Puppy version it is running in.
If running in Xenialpup64 7.5.
Xenialpup64 7.5 is what it will install.
It can not install other Puppy versions by using their ISO.

Maybe if you tell us step by step what you do.
We can see what your problem is.

But I would not use the Universal Installer.

Strongly suggest using Frugalpup Installer
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