...his 4.2 thing is so completely missing the point it's kinda sad. I think 4.2 is a major change. I'm not surprised it is a rough ride. Had that before with Puppy new versions and my machines. Maybe shipped a little too premature, but no big deal; 4.1 is there while 4.2 fixes come in and the woofs...

Hi I'm assuming boot from LiveCD At the 5 second boot page, type:- Puppy pfix=ram nopcmcia The pfix=ram is to ignore any previous attempts/save files Is it not possible to disable the pcmcia device in bios? Aitch :) hey, yip, booting from LiveCD nopcmcia was the first thing i tried, but it seems to...

hi, one of my laptops has a freeze at boot time; it has a dead pcmcia device, so on some distros nopcmcia kernel option helped booting i use a 4.2.1 live cd (with or without a usb-stick; no harddisk) the freeze Manifests like this: with the retro kernel, it boots until after 'Recognising media devic...

ok, woof alpha 9 didn't help; but maybe I have a bigger problem on that machine; seems like >4.1 only works with the retro kernel. thanks for the help so far, you are great :) 4.2.1 retro freezes my keyboard though, so i'll try to fix that first and after that reopen my woof issues in the to-be-curr...

Also schau dir mal wakepup (such mal im Forum) an, das verwendet ne DOS-Konsole um ein Puppy von woanders zu starten. Ursprüngliche Anwendungsfälle sind für wakepup: funktionierende Floppy oder CD-Rom, Daten auf USB-Stick, aber Gerät unterstützt boot von USB-Stick nicht. Also start von wakepup, dass...

Did you do an installation to some media, or do you only boot from CD? No installation whatsoever. Boot from CD. At the 5 second prompt type puppy pmedia=cd Maybe this helps. nope... :( also tried with pfix=ram and pfix=copy combinations; boot debug also didnt show anything helpful. downloading alp...

I didn't have luck with the 'wooflets' so far.. Tried alpha 6 to 8 and all of them dropped out of the booting process when trying to find the sfs; e.g. : upup-471.sfs not found ... Hm, that machine doesn't have a harddisk and isn't supposed to keep data (ensuring that I always start with an untouch...

I didn't have luck with the 'wooflets' so far.. Tried alpha 6 to 8 and all of them dropped out of the booting process when trying to find the sfs; e.g. : upup-471.sfs not found ... no harddisk ... I alwase copy the upup-xxx.sfs to /mnt/home first. Hm, that machine doesn't have a harddisk and isn't ...

I didn't have luck with the 'wooflets' so far.. Tried alpha 6 to 8 and all of them dropped out of the booting process when trying to find the sfs; e.g. : upup-471.sfs not found Before puplets were the only linuxes booting up on that machine without any problems (yay for puppy linux). I hope that won...