Sky Aisling wrote:Is Puppy the only Linux OS that loads exclusively into RAM?

If not, what are some of the other distros?

Thank you in advance.

I used to play around with a distro called

Blue Flopps

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I have also found that a lot of those old PC's have bad CD drives.
I would try a known good CD drive and see if it will boot then.
OR:
Could be a bad IDE cable.

Sometime Puppy doesn't like "cable select" on the jumper settings.

More RAM would help though.

Just my 2 cents worth.

If you have 2 drives, try putting your puppy disk into the other drive.

I have done this with good results.


I hope this helps.

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The easiest way would be to replace the bad CD drive.

But, you could create more than one user partition.
One for one version of puppy, another for any puppy upgrades, and a data partition(for storing things you want to keep).

This might be an option for you.


I hope this helps.

Try plugging in a head set, and see if it works.


Just my 2 cents worth.

I am running several different versions of Puppy on these laptops: puppy 4.0.0, 4.1.1, 4.1.2 I have had several laptops that load sound card drivers, but don't seem to work properly. Try plugging in a set of headphones or ear buds. The sound card works just fine, but I can't hear it through the spea...

Check your CF adapter for a jumper, and set it to master.

Make sure your CD drive and your CF drive are not on the same controller.

Just my 2 cents worth.

Did you use gparted to set the boot flag on your CF drive?

Your system doesn't see a bootable drive without the proper flag set.

I hope this helps.

I always copy my data to an external drive, and do a clean install.
I have better luck this way.

Just my 2 cents worth.

Did you use gparted and set your flags to boot on the flash?

If you didn't it's not being seen as a bootable drive.

I hope this helps.

If you have a flashcard reader in your tower, try unpluging it from the mother board.

I had a problem like yours and this was the fix.

It seems the card reader was shorting out the USB bus.


Anyway: My 2 cents worth.

Please let everybody know what Belkin card you are using, Please.

Part# and Version # are usually on the bottom of the box.

Thanks!

I got my Belkin F5D7010 Ver.7032

Note: I had to use NDIS Wrapper.

This card does work good though.

It is working with Puppy 4.1.1

I bought this card at Wal-Mart.

I hope this helps.

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You might purchase an adapter and remove the laptops hard drive, and put it in a PC . Use the CD rom drive to install puppy on the laptop drive, the put the drive back in the laptop and boot puppy that way. I have done this several times with success. Here is a link to get the adapter: http://www.ge...

List the steps you used to try to install teenpup.
Then we might be able to see what you did wrong, and steer you the right way.

You might list some specs. on your PC? laptop?

I hope we can help you

Let us know OK?

Try searching for


boot 2 pup

Basically it is a bootable floppy loading USB drivers looking for puppy on a flash drive .

I hope this helps.

You could boot into Puppy and use Gparted to reset the partitions and format to the desired file system, then install Puppy to that drive.

I have an EEE, but I left the original OS (XandrOS) and just boot from an SD card for Puppy.

I hope this helps.