Boot Puppy Mac Mini

[Smithy]

Well here's the specs
http://www.everymac.com/systems/apple/m ... _1.66.html
Is it possible to make a puppy on a usb stick, traditional method i.e
Idlinux.sys, syslinux.cfg, and get the sucker to boot.
And would it pickup ethernet with barry's simple network.
I don't want to touch the underlying system AT ALL, no grub, nothing.
User is having problems with sluggish safari and crap, offered a solution that might resurrect a bit of life into it (a puppy).
So can this be done? I don't know much about EFI but apparently this mac has it.

That's it really. If it can't be done exactly that way as above. I will advise user to defrag, virus check throw away and get something else etc.

[Billtoo]

Well here's the specs
http://www.everymac.com/systems/apple/m ... _1.66.html
Is it possible to make a puppy on a usb stick, traditional method i.e
Idlinux.sys, syslinux.cfg, and get the sucker to boot.

My newer macmini won't boot from a usb stick but:

On my newer macmini I can boot from the external DVD drive by pressing
and holding the left option key, then using the right arrow key to move
to the DVD icon when it shows up.

If that older macmini will boot from the built-in CD/DVD drive I'd burn
one of the older Puppy iso's to a CD and boot from that, it may offer
to make a savefile on a usb flash drive, could save documents to a
flash drive at least.

I'm booting LxPupTahr from a DVD with the savefile on a 4gb flash
drive.
LxPupTahr requires 1gb ram so that won't run on your older macmini.

HTH

[Smithy]

Thanks for the info Billtoo, I had the chance to look at the macmini today. actually the mac os doesn't seem too bad, but i don't think the user knows much about defragging, etc that is what i would assume is causing the eggtimer circle thing before going about its busineess. I think the user will eventually just buy a newer model, because they just want things to switch on and "go".

[mini-jaguar]

My newer macmini won't boot from a usb stick but:

That's strange, it should work, unless the grub is missing from the USB stick or the boot flag is not set.

Anyways, you simply press the option key after the beep to boot from USB. Or else you can install rEFInd and it will automatically sense you have a bootable USB stick plugged in and ask where you want to boot from.

[Billtoo]

My newer macmini won't boot from a usb stick but:

That's strange, it should work, unless the grub is missing from the USB stick or the boot flag is not set.

Anyways, you simply press the option key after the beep to boot from USB. Or else you can install rEFInd and it will automatically sense you have a bootable USB stick plugged in and ask where you want to boot from.

Hi,

I'll try your suggestion next time I powerdown the mini, I'm running LxPupTahr from a multisession DVD now and it's been up for 11+ days.

Thanks

EDIT:

I finally shutdown the macmini today and tried booting from a flash
drive.
Grub4dos wouldn't work, bootflash wouldn't work either, installing to a
flash drive with the Puppy Universal Installer does work, not the first
time but everytime afterwards until the drive is unplugged from the
macmini.

SCSI Disks
ATA APPLE HDD HTS545
HL-DT-ST DVDRW GX40N
Kingston DataTraveler 3.0
Operating System
Version
Kernel Linux 3.14.20 (i686)
Version #1 SMP Thu Jan 8 12:54:43 GMT 2015
C Library GNU C Library version 2.17 (stable)
Distribution X-slacko - 3.1
Current Session
Computer Name Puppy-PC
User Name root (root)
Home Directory /root
Desktop Environment XFCE 4