Hi all guys. I'm using teamviewer very often to provide remote support to my parents/friends for pc and mobile devices. It's quite useful also as remote desktop to avoid moving phisically from a pc to another. I have an old laptop with tahrpup 6.0.5 32bit, I'm using it to convert (using an usb dvr) ...

Ok, so is useless for my purpose to try to make it lighter

I'll study the sfs stuff and frugal approach

Thanks all!!!

Again many thanks. I did a full install because I thought that was the easy one. I'm interested in [quote="bigpup"] You can easily load or unload SFS program packages. This lets you use a program without actually installing it to Puppy./quote] I'm going to read something about this. Right ...

Thanks, I know the issue of 2^32 for windows 98


I'm going to recover 512MB of ram from an old laptop
Now we add 16GB of ram block and I'm happy for 512MB :rolf


I boot from Tahrpup and I'm performing a full installation

Thanks all guys!

Many thanks!

Perfect, thanks you so much!

Ok, I'm going to burn tahr-6.0.5_noPAE.iso.

I have only 768MByte of ram, PAE should not be relevant for my hardware, ok?

we can guide you through the necessary small edits to get a PAE Puppy booting. @Mike Walsh: sorry but my English isn't so good for idiomatic sentences :( I didn't get your point. Why I have to edit my linux to use PAE if my cpu has no PAE? Thanks all guys. I'm going to try to burn Tahrpup 6.0.5 nop...

Ok, maybe I made a mistake: I thought that Bionicpuppy was something working 100% on old laptop.
I downloaded these images in this week end..
I'll try them one by one...
The issue is that I have to plug an usb dvd writer to my mac to burn images...lets see tomorrow...

Could try burning a CD of Tahrpup 6.0.5 nopae It has a nopae kernel. http://distro.ibiblio.org/puppylinux/puppy-tahr/iso/tahrpup%20-6.0-CE/tahr-6.0.5_noPAE.iso To be sure that nothing is on the internal hdd I'm going to follow this: insert CD and boot press F2 during the boot process in the 10 seco...

t certainly used to be the case that with booting from CD you had to type the word "puppy" before adding any kernel paramters. good point and still holds true. The flow should be : insert CD and boot press F2 during the boot process in the 10 second time window use "puppy forcepae&qu...

I tried, added pfix=ram and '-- forcepae' but no luck.

I have again the screen shown above

Sorry I didn't get you sentence.

If I remove I cannot go over, it complains for PAE

I'm able to boot BionicPup32 from cd, go in bootloader menu, press tab, add forcepae and proceed but i have this error sda1 /puppy_upupbb_19.03.sfs mount of sfs failed I don't know why is trying to use sda1 I didn't start any installation or something else. I mean I bypassed the PAE issue (I think) ...

I'm sorry guys, I'm really a newbie for this kind of stuff. When I installed xubuntu 12.04 was so easy, cd, boot and install. I'm looking for something similar, "plug & play" No luck for me? I'm looking for the lighter os with gui, after I'll install software if I need them. Now with p...

Thanks for suggestions.

I have a macbook pro, with it I flash iso to usb to try to renew my old laptop: if there is something I can do to make this restoration easy I can use it.

I'll try you suggestion (Puppy iso download + Slacko approach)

Thanks

Please note that you are supposedly booting from a CD-ROM but it is looking for the puppy sfs file on 'sda1'. It should be looking for it's files on 'sr0' at this point. Did you burn the ISO to CD using isoburner, or just copy the iso onto the CD? I don't know why it is looking for sda1 but I simpl...

I'm trying to restore and old pc to try to convert old VHS to dvd with a usb ARKMICRO device. I saw that vlc should work fine but right now I have xubuntu 12.04 on this laptop and I'm not able to install vlc. So I decided to upgrade but my cpu has no pae support and automatic upgrade failed. So I do...

Thanks but probably as said by @mikeslr 768MByte of ram are not enough for BionicPup32

Sorry, you are right. I burned it on a cd, try to run it adding -- forcepae from bootloader and that's all. No cd removed. My Tecra A2 has 768 MByte of ram, still not enough for BionicPup32. Cd burning was good, no error at that time. I'm going to follow you suggestion moving to something lighter. Y...

Hi, I burned BionicPup32 iso on a cd disk to install it on an old Tecra A2 from toshiba with pentium M 1.6Ghz.

I boot from cd, type -- forcepae but I have the error above:
"sda1 /puppy_upupbb_19.03.sfs not found"

What happens?