I think I've been struggling on mostly the same path as this thread, but with a twist. I have a WinXP laptop, with low level disk encryption. Can't alter the boot sector to control a dual boot. I can boot from Puppy 4.3.1 CD okay, if I'm willing to end my Win session and suffer slow start up time ...

Thanks MikeB for the additional info in your reply post. Gives me some more to think about and examine. Am I understanding correctly that there's nothing functionally wrong/bad with making a big Puppy save file if my USB has the room for it? Are the only negative trade offs that the save file has to ...

I can see now that there is a mount point for all of the USB at SDB1 at /initrd/mnt/dev_save. A link makes it easier to access as /mnt/home. I guess I'm confused about the purpose of the 'root' directory, and how it relates to 'home'. Should they be the same thing? I'm still not clear about when to ...

I have my Puppy 4.3.1 running from my 1GB USB stick. My PC has 2 GB RAM. I need help to understand how Puppy uses RAM versus writeable disks such as my configured USB stick. During installation I selected EXT3 for the whole drive. Puppy asked me how large I wanted a space for saving my files. I ...

I browsed and found reference to Samba 3.4.1 available as the current, stable release as of August 2009. http://us1.samba.org/samba There are released versions / bug fixes also for 3.3.7, 3.2.14, and 3.0.36. Puppy 4.3 beta 3 appears to still have 3.0.26. I don't know how to incorporate any newer ...

I just want to applaud / congratulate you on how easy and smoothly the upgrade process from 424 to 425 was for me! I am using Puppy only via USB stick. I followed instructions about copying over just the very few specific files from the ISO to the USB. http://www.puppylinux.com/flash-puppy.htm Upon ...

In addition to my using Puppy at home and at my public library, I would like to be able to carry it with me on my USB memory stick for use in my lab at work. The Windows Server 2003 shares I need to access are not reachable with the version of Samba/SMBClient in Puppy. The latest Puppy I've tried is ...

Thanks for your replies. I found an MS-Windows md5 checksum checker. At first I used it incorrectly, and came up with a bad value for the ISO I had downloaded. So I re-downloaded the ISO. The fresh download checked fine. I found out that I had misentered the checksum value to compare the first time ...

On my laptop Teenpup 2008 startup begins similarly to Puppy 3.01, but the startup has these problems: 1. Hung at serial detect. Had to power cycle, then disable serial in BIOS to be able to proceed. 2. Copying pup_214.sfs took over 4 minutes 3. After 'Setting up network interface Done' status ...