I was on my way to creating a swap partition via Gparted when I came upon an issue with it – it doesn’t want to resize/move around anything in the hard drive, either graphically or by typing in the numeric values cells. In the hunt for a Puppy User Manual to figure out why I can’t change the partition size, I came across this site:
https://discover.hubpages.com/technolog ... -beginners
which mentions that I can install Puppy alongside Windows via the Puppy Linux Windows Installer .exe program inside Windows.
So now I’m wondering if this is a better/easier or a deprecated/defunct way to get Puppy to work alongside Windows XP. I kind of want to do it this “Puppy Linux Windows Installer .exe” way b/c I’m having trouble creating a partition in Gparted with Puppy, so doing it inside Windows might be a good work around, but if it’s not recommended – I won’t.
In trying to find more info on this I did find:
https://oldforum.puppylinux.com/viewtopic.php?t=61404
which suggests downloading the current version of LICK works with any Puppy version I like. However, b/c I mostly find old articles when I search “Puppy Linux Windows Installer .exe download” mostly referring to old versions of Puppy AND it wasn’t the 1st suggestion of how to install Puppy alongside Windows (creating a swap partition was the only suggestion I received) – I’m worried this LICK thing is no longer a preferred way of having Puppy play nicely with Windows. So here I am creating this post to gauge opinion on this issue.