I'll try shrinking a partition and making a little new one. I guess nobody knows whether Puppy is supposed to be able to use a FAT16 partition. I'll let you know how it turns out -- thanks for the suggestions.

It looks like I'm going to have to give up on getting Puppy to work on my friend's machine. I defragmented the C: (hda1) and D: (hda5) drives, then booted the CD and used option three to choose hda1 as the pup001 file location. A pup001 file was created, so I thought all was well. When I rebooted ...

Since nobody else seems to have the problems we do (did), maybe you're right about defragmenting. She's been running this thing for 10 years or something and probably never done it. I'll give that a try. Win95 reports that both partitions are uncompressed, but I don't know if that means anything or ...

Is there an OO2.x dotpup file anywhere? I'm trying to install Puppy on a friend's old computer. She needs OO2 in order to be able to open a ton of WordPerfect files. If not, is one in the works? If not, would installing OO directly allow me to remaster a CD that knows about OO? Speaking of which, I ...

Puppy 1.0.8 boots fine most of the time on my partner's old PII 233 box w/ 512 memory, running Win95. Problem is, it says it can't find a place to put the pup file. I ran CFDisk, and it finds hda1 with 3249MB, 29MB used. hda5 has 1098 MB. It identifies both as FAT16 partitions. Win95 finds C: at 1 ...

I guess the problem started as soon as I joined, leading me to wonder if I had some setting wrong or something. Long live coincidence, I guess.

Every time I post a message here I get a screen that says "General Error

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The message shows up on the forum, so I can't figute out what this is about. Can't find any obvious problem in my profile. Anybody know?

Huh. All I know is, the error message says it needs an MSdos or VFAT partition, period. That''s 1.0.5, so maybe I'll burn the 1.0.8 disk and see if that says the same thing.

It still seems to me the problem is the requirement that Puppy needs either a VFAT or MSdos partition. Anybody know a way around this, other than making a new empty partition?

Today I landed in exactly the same maze as Rick did. I wanted my partner to be able to start using Linux instead of Win95 on her old computer, and Puppy seemed like the ideal solution. Her HD apparently has 3 gigs on 2 partitions. When I bootup with the Chubby Puppy 1.0.5 CD I get the message about ...