Tried PSLEEP=999 but no change in load speed and when I tried to run seakmonkey the HD chattered away as normal.
Any ideas?

I only wish I had come across this post ages ago, it is so useful.
Many thanks
Tony

Hi, I've done a full install to HDD and it works lovely (2.12) but I am really after speed. Any easy way to make the compressed file load into RAM (Ihave 512MB)? If there is any chance of instructions that could be understood by a brick it would be really appreciated. Also anyone know where I can fi...

Hi Mu, thanks for link to Muppy, I have installed and I really love it! A few bugs but what disto dosn't have them.
For me a Puppy with full firefox, NVU, Open Office, Thunderbird and Wine would be perfect. (Wine because there are sometimes no alternatives)
Cheers
Tony

But I get the same error, press any key to reboot.
It works fine if I use a hard drive and choose Hard drive install from Puppy Universal installer.

Any help?
Cheers
Tony

Hi Flash, any M/B would do although I have had good experiences with AMD (Support the underdog...) ands ASUS.
Some BIOS can boot a fair bit faster, I just want to be able to boot, surf and close down ASAP.

Cheers
Tony

Hi Barry, been having trouble with GRUB error 17 and whilst checking found that Pmount was showing my ext3 as NTFS.
MUT however correctly shows it as ext3
Cheers
Tony

Hi, can anyone suggest some motherboards that boot really fast, can boot an OS from USB 2.0 and that Puppy will be happy with.

Cheers
Tony

See this thread. Good Luck
Tony

http://murga.org/~puppy/viewtopic.php?t=12686

Hi, thanks for help I will check it out later.
Mainly I want fast booting machine (I have rsi so can't type much). Will be using a fast boot motherboard later, plus fast CF flash card in IDE slot or USB 2 pen drive. (If hibernate works then even better) so CD rom startup would be slower

Cheers

Hi have a look at

http://murga.org/~puppy/viewtopic.php?t=12686

I had been having the same trouble but now works fine using the Beta 2 release

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Cheers Barry, I've managed to install Puppy on a hard drive, perfect install! This was using the puppy-2.12beta-seamonkey.iso Anyone having trouble installing to HDD and is willing to try Beta software I would suggest trying this ISO as it is the only one that has ever successfully installed for me....

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