Installing to an MBR (Legacy) Internal Drive As The Only Operating System.
This topic assumes you are using one of the recommended distro's or remasters.
Boot Puppy from your CD or USB drive Make sure you have backed up any data you want to keep first.
1. Partition the drive
click Menu>System>GParted
If the drive has existing partitions as shown here, it is best to delete them first.
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right click the partitions
click Delete
click the green check mark in the toolbar to apply the change
When you are done you should have only one entry named: unallocated. You are now ready to partition the drive. You can use all the drive as one partition or you can split it up if you have a large drive, just make the first partition big enough for Puppy, at least 10gb if possible, bigger is usually better.
right click the unallocated partition
click New
New size = 10000 (make 40000 if you can, bigger is usually better)
File system = ext3
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Label = linux (or your choice, should be short)
click +Add button
click the green check mark in the toolbar to apply the change
right click the ext3 partition
click Manage flags
check boot
click close
If you didn’t use all of the unallocated partition, you can make additional partitions for storage.
When you have finished partitioning, close Gparted
2. Frugal Install To Drive
-click Menu>Setup>FrugalPup
click the Puppy button
click the this radio button
click OK
click sda1
click OK
At the next screen:
click the Create Folder button
type in a short folder name
press Enter
click OK
After the files are installed:
click EXIT
click Menu>Setup>Grub2 bootloader config
click OK
click OK
click OK
click OK
Puppy is now on the internal drive sda1 you can shut down, remove your CD/USB and reboot.
After booting:
click Menu>Exit>Restart graphical server
Your install is complete
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