I would like to install Puppy on a 1GB USB stick and boot from it. It would be useful to know which versions would fit on it, so I could decide which one to choose. Also, to install thereon, should the stick be formatted as NTFS?
Any info gratefully received!
Thanks
Which versions of Puppy can go on 1GB USB Flash stick?
Which versions of Puppy can go on 1GB USB Flash stick?
"It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets." - Voltaire
Puppy 3.01 installed on my USB flash dongle beautifully. 
Alas, I then discovered that my BIOS boot menu doesn't allow booting from the USB
Is there a trick that would boot into Windoze Vista and then boot up from the USB drive?
Vista is @#%& - but my laptop was stolen and my new machine forced Vista on me
Thanks
Alas, I then discovered that my BIOS boot menu doesn't allow booting from the USB
Is there a trick that would boot into Windoze Vista and then boot up from the USB drive?
Vista is @#%& - but my laptop was stolen and my new machine forced Vista on me
Thanks
"It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets." - Voltaire
-
John Lewis
- Posts: 148
- Joined: Mon 03 Dec 2007, 10:19
- Location: Albany West Australia
Hi Marcel,
I had a similar problem.
there is a small program called wake2pup. I have this on a business card size cd. You can google for the iso or search this site as I can't remember where I found it now.
plug in the usb card and run the cd. That works for me.
One thing. I found on my computer I have to wait until the first bit of the program runs before plugging in the dongle or the computer freezes sometimes.
John Lewis
I had a similar problem.
there is a small program called wake2pup. I have this on a business card size cd. You can google for the iso or search this site as I can't remember where I found it now.
plug in the usb card and run the cd. That works for me.
One thing. I found on my computer I have to wait until the first bit of the program runs before plugging in the dongle or the computer freezes sometimes.
John Lewis
-
happyhippo
- Posts: 42
- Joined: Tue 04 Jul 2006, 11:56
wake2pup
Can wake2pup be installed on a CD? My new VISTA machine doesn't have a floppy.
It seems they don't make them with floppies these days, which is a pity - I have loads of stuff on floppies - old docs from way back that I'd like to access. I suppose I'll have to buy a floppy drive.
It seems they don't make them with floppies these days, which is a pity - I have loads of stuff on floppies - old docs from way back that I'd like to access. I suppose I'll have to buy a floppy drive.
"It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets." - Voltaire
Found a post that tells how to do it from CD
Sorry folks! I just noticed this thread in Howto:
"How to make a multi-purpose boot CD for Puppy"
I'll try it.
"How to make a multi-purpose boot CD for Puppy"
I'll try it.
"It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets." - Voltaire
Hi Marcel,
If you have a look at this thread, jcoder24 outlines how to have multiple pups boot, on one CD, using grub. As you can use grub & memdisk.bin to boot any bootable floppy .img file of a hard disk, you should be able to apply this to a wakepup.img on a CD. Something along the lines of:
If you have a look at this thread, jcoder24 outlines how to have multiple pups boot, on one CD, using grub. As you can use grub & memdisk.bin to boot any bootable floppy .img file of a hard disk, you should be able to apply this to a wakepup.img on a CD. Something along the lines of:
Code: Select all
title wakepup
kernel /boot/grub/memdisk.bin
initrd /boot/grub/wakepup2.img-
John Lewis
- Posts: 148
- Joined: Mon 03 Dec 2007, 10:19
- Location: Albany West Australia
-
John Lewis
- Posts: 148
- Joined: Mon 03 Dec 2007, 10:19
- Location: Albany West Australia
Me again Marcel,
Made a mistake. It should be Wakepup2.
The link is to the post by pakt and has download for the cd version that I use.
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=7979
John Lewis
Made a mistake. It should be Wakepup2.
The link is to the post by pakt and has download for the cd version that I use.
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=7979
John Lewis
Booting from USB stick
Thanks everyone - you've been very helpful.
Now I have an embarassing confession to make: just yesterday I discovered that pressing ESC when booting up my computer produces a boot menu where there is a choice to boot from USB stick
My only excuse is that it's a new machine - just 2 weeks in my possession, and it has no useful documentation (it was a demo model, and I guess the dealer didn't include all the docs).
Hopefully all your useful suggestions will be of help to others.
So: apologies and thanks again for your trouble.
Now I have an embarassing confession to make:
just yesterday I discovered that pressing ESC when booting up my computer produces a boot menu where there is a choice to boot from USB stick My only excuse is that it's a new machine - just 2 weeks in my possession, and it has no useful documentation (it was a demo model, and I guess the dealer didn't include all the docs).
Hopefully all your useful suggestions will be of help to others.
So: apologies and thanks again for your trouble.
"It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets." - Voltaire
on the other hand, my computer supports booting from a usb stick, i have an 8gb stick. 
i tried to install TEENpup2.14 on it, but with some difficulty. then i finally try to boot from it an it says that it cant find linux 
and asks for the boot image. 
can anyone help?
i have been trying to get a usb puppy working for a while, but to no avail.
some assistance would be great, thanks.
(the storage file mentioned below is from my main HDD, not my usb drive)
i tried to install TEENpup2.14 on it, but with some difficulty. then i finally try to boot from it an it says that it cant find linux and asks for the boot image. can anyone help?i have been trying to get a usb puppy working for a while, but to no avail.
some assistance would be great, thanks.
(the storage file mentioned below is from my main HDD, not my usb drive)
my avatar is what happens when you run windoze.
-
John Lewis
- Posts: 148
- Joined: Mon 03 Dec 2007, 10:19
- Location: Albany West Australia
Glad you got it working Marcel.
Crabbypup,
Did you use the universal installer to make the USB Puppy ?
That is how I made mine. Booted a disk Puppy and then used the installer by following the prompts. (Frugal Install)
I do remember reading that Puppy might be unhappy with a usb card greater than two gigabytes. My biggest is 2gig so I have no experience with a larger size. Perhaps this only referred to the size of the save file. I'm not sure now.
Perhaps you need to partition the stick.
Have you looked at what is on the stick to see if all the needed files are there ? Mine has:
initrd.gz, idlinux.sys, pup-301.sfs, syslinux.cfg, usbflash, vmlinuz and zdrv_301.sfs . After your first save you also get the pupsave file.
I recall it is important to have the file usbflash which is empty and is a marker for the usb loading I think.
Hope this helps,
John Lewis
Crabbypup,
Did you use the universal installer to make the USB Puppy ?
That is how I made mine. Booted a disk Puppy and then used the installer by following the prompts. (Frugal Install)
I do remember reading that Puppy might be unhappy with a usb card greater than two gigabytes. My biggest is 2gig so I have no experience with a larger size. Perhaps this only referred to the size of the save file. I'm not sure now.
Perhaps you need to partition the stick.
Have you looked at what is on the stick to see if all the needed files are there ? Mine has:
initrd.gz, idlinux.sys, pup-301.sfs, syslinux.cfg, usbflash, vmlinuz and zdrv_301.sfs . After your first save you also get the pupsave file.
I recall it is important to have the file usbflash which is empty and is a marker for the usb loading I think.
Hope this helps,
John Lewis
it is a fat32 formatted drive, and johnlewis, could you post copies of the files for download? i think that by copying the files onto the stick i have that i can get it to boot. (also, after the frugal install to the usbcard, there are no files on it at all) also, my stick seems to not like to be repartitioned with more than one partition. or any, it seems. i tried it yesterday and it gave me error messages. but i finally got it partitioned to fat32 (the original filesystem).
Last edited by crabbypup on Mon 11 Feb 2008, 22:52, edited 1 time in total.
-
John Lewis
- Posts: 148
- Joined: Mon 03 Dec 2007, 10:19
- Location: Albany West Australia
crabbypup,
Ok, I have just tried this and it worked ok.
1) I booted up puppy from cd. I used the neww 301eee version as I wanted to try it. I assume the files will have the same names from version to version or nearly so.
2) I used Gparted to format the stick to fat32 and I checked the box for the boot sector.
3) I copied the following files to the stick from the disk using drop and drag from ROX
initrd.gz
vmlinuz
zdrv_301.sfs
isolinux.bin or similar. in one of my pups it is idlinux.sys
isolinux.cfg may be syslinux.cfg or similar
pup301-eee.sfs (or whatever yours is.
4) open leafpad and save a blank file named usbflash. copy it to the stick then change the properties to executable. Now it looks like a cog wheel.
That was all I did. when I tried the stick it booted straight up.
Hope this helps.
Oh I have one usb stick here that I can save files to and from but there is no way that I can get it to boot up puppy. It seems to have some special windows hardware or something to do with security and it just won't work. Hope you don't have one like that. Can't recall the brand.
John Lewis
Ok, I have just tried this and it worked ok.
1) I booted up puppy from cd. I used the neww 301eee version as I wanted to try it. I assume the files will have the same names from version to version or nearly so.
2) I used Gparted to format the stick to fat32 and I checked the box for the boot sector.
3) I copied the following files to the stick from the disk using drop and drag from ROX
initrd.gz
vmlinuz
zdrv_301.sfs
isolinux.bin or similar. in one of my pups it is idlinux.sys
isolinux.cfg may be syslinux.cfg or similar
pup301-eee.sfs (or whatever yours is.
4) open leafpad and save a blank file named usbflash. copy it to the stick then change the properties to executable. Now it looks like a cog wheel.
That was all I did. when I tried the stick it booted straight up.
Hope this helps.
Oh I have one usb stick here that I can save files to and from but there is no way that I can get it to boot up puppy. It seems to have some special windows hardware or something to do with security and it just won't work. Hope you don't have one like that. Can't recall the brand.
John Lewis
-
John Lewis
- Posts: 148
- Joined: Mon 03 Dec 2007, 10:19
- Location: Albany West Australia
Yes,
Try this link to pupeee for the eeepc but works fine on all my boxes.
There is also another eeepc version too . This link is to the board.
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=25896
Oh, in my last post: Typo Item 4 should read
open leafpad and save a blank file named usbflash. copy it to the stick then change the permissions to make it to executable. Now it looks like a cog wheel. ( or maybe a box with a tv like screen depending on your puppy version.)
John Lewis
Try this link to pupeee for the eeepc but works fine on all my boxes.
There is also another eeepc version too . This link is to the board.
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=25896
Oh, in my last post: Typo Item 4 should read
open leafpad and save a blank file named usbflash. copy it to the stick then change the permissions to make it to executable. Now it looks like a cog wheel. ( or maybe a box with a tv like screen depending on your puppy version.)
John Lewis