So given my being scared and seeking an alternative to installation is it possible to install to USB storage device and if so how? It is possible to install to a USB flash drive. I have done it with Puppy 4.00. After you put a FAT formatted USB device in a USB port, you have to mount it ...

If you installed to hda1, then that is what you would select at the GRUB boot menu. Sorry if you had trouble with it, but this howto was really just to show how to do a FULL install, and not so much about GRUB. Normally the installer gets the menu.lst entry right, when doing a FULL install. The ...

I found installing Puppy 4.00 to a bare hard drive was easy. Editing the menu.lst file get Puppy to boot to the hard drive was the hard part. Menu.lst is in the /boot/grub directory. My menu.lst is below, to use as an example. My hard drive has two partitions (hda1 and hda2) plus a swap partition ...

I downloaded Puppy 4.00 a couple of weeks ago and like it a lot so far. But I think something is wrong with PuppyDialer. I can't edit my user name, password, and modem speed. Left clicking in the blanks would not bring up a cursor. I worked around the problem by entering the necessary information in ...

Puppy's default is to do everything as root. But if you do not want to be root all the time, you can set up a user account, too. There was a long thread recently on the dangers and benefits of being root. So I will just point you to that thread. http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=29358 ...

I like running as root in a full install (Puppy 4.00) on a single user box. I'm all for man over machine. So when surfing the net, I'd just as soon put limits on other machines touching mine and doing something I don't want. That's when I don't want to be root. See spot/README.TXT in puppy's home ...

Same problem, later computer. http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=16950 This URL has a downloadable image of a 1.44 MB boot floppy. This will start Puppy from a nonbootable USB pen drive, which has Puppy already installed. From there, you ought to be able to install to a hard drive. It ...

I have a pen drive with a U3 read-only partition and a read/write FAT32 patition on it. Puppy does not recognize the pen drive's existence, even on refreshing Pmount. Doing a mount/unmount a couple of times on some other drive does get Pmount to recognize the pen drive. Then only the read/write ...

I've got a multicard reader and compact flash cards but haven't had any problem. Have you tried putting the card in the reader before plugging it into the USB port?

I followed (mostly) the directions in that how-to file I referenced in an earlier post and successfully installed puppy 4.00. The installation directions in the manual help, too. Its at http://www.puppy-linux.info/en/manual/main.html Have you downloaded the puppy 400 .iso file? Have you made a ...

I'm a Puppy newbie, and I want to get rid of the windows OS on a desktop box, too. Here's a how-to file that may help both of us.

http://puppylinux.org/wiki/how-tos/gene ... lchecklist

Can't help with skulltag. Good luck.

I've got a Memorex traveldrive 1 GB mini pen drive that is U3. I tried to install Puppy 4.0 on it a couple of days ago to use on an old Pentium II. The OS installed, but the boot floppy could not find it on the pen drive. I think it was looking in the wrong place, in the U3 partition. I wound up ...