Installing Puppy to a UEFI Internal Drive

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Installing Puppy to a UEFI internal drive as the only operating system.

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This topic assumes you are using one of the recommended distro's or remasters.

• Boot 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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• click Device>Create Partition Table

• Select GPT

• click Apply

You should now have only one entry named: unallocated. You are now ready to partition the drive. We’ll make two partitions.

First partition

1. right click the unallocated entry

2. click New

3. New size = 100

4. File system = fat32

5. Label = EFI

6. click +Add button

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Second partition

1. right click the unallocated entry

2. click New

3. New size = 10000 (make 40000 if you can, bigger is usually better)

4. File system = ext3

5. Label = linux

6. click +Add button

7. click the green check mark in the toolbar to apply the change

8. right click the fat32 partition

9. click Manage flags

10. check boot (auto selects esp too)

11. click close

If you didn’t use all of the unallocated entry, 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

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• click sda2

• click OK

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At the next screen:

1. click the Create Folder button

2. type in a short folder name

3. press Enter

4. click OK

5. click OK

6. click OK

After the files are installed:

1. In the Frugalpup main window, click the Boot button

2. Select the location of the frugal install (sda2).

3. Select the small 1st partition on the drive, as location to install the boot loader

4. Select the boot loader type
   UEFI
   mbr ->legacy bios boot
   both
   
   You can install the UEFI for UEFI computers
   mbr for legacy bios computers
   both, to boot anything

   • The UEFI will also install the needed files, to support secure boot enabled in UEFI.
     
     When you first boot the drive, on a UEFI computer, with secure boot enabled.
     A process will start, to allow you to install the Puppy security key, to the computer.
     It will add this Puppy key, to the other ones, loaded on the computer.

   Puppy is now on the internal drive sda2 you can shut down, (don’t save the session) remove your CD/USB and reboot.

   After booting:

   • click Menu>Exit>Restart graphical server

   • click Menu>Exit>Reboot

   • make the save file ( read What is a Save File or Folder?)

     During your shutdown, you may be ask if you want a swap file

     General Guidelines: If you have less than 2gb of ram, create a 1024 Mb swap file/partition
     
     Your install is complete!

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