Reasonably good, I've got 96 mb of ram. What I do is boot from the live cd, and use gparted to create an ext2 partition and linux-swap space. That means re-sizing your fat32 partition down some. make sure you back up files first. The following applies to a PC with a FAT32 partition for windows already on it. If you've got NTFS you'll need to do more research here and don't follow these directions.heywoodj wrote:I'm D/Ling RC5 now. What kind of chance of this working on this:
Dell Latitude LT: 266 MHz MMX, maxed at 64 MB RAM, 6GB HDD, with external CD, no floppy, and a BIOS that won't allow USB boot.
Thanks.
I do recommend the frugal install to the ext2 partition. Your swap will be 128 mb, and the ext2 will need to accomodate both grub, the frugal install and your pup save files. I'd recommend at least 1gb for that. So you'll need to reduce your fat32 by that much before you can use the free space, then make the ext2 partition and finally the linux-swap. If your setup is like mine you can dual boot windows or linux pretty easily. Gparted is pretty easy to use.
Run the installer(s), from the menu, to install puppy and Grub. With regard to grub it's going to dev/hda2. I go with the defaults and use the MBR. Grub will install an entry for windows automatically if you've got that installed.
With regard to grub which has to be installed to the ext2 partition after it is installed check the menu.list file to see what is in it. I use this to boot:
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#Start of 214x
title = Puppy 214x (frugal) on hda2
rootnoverify (hd0,1)
kernel (hd0,1)/vmlinuz root=/dev/ram0 pmedia=idehd
initrd (hd0,1)/initrd.gz
#End of 214x
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