Takilla wrote:Thanks for the help, but no cigar for me. I have tried all the solutions that I could on this post and others but have not been able to bring about a change.
1. There are no files missing, X is where it should be.
2. Puppy will not rename /.usr_cram to /user because there is already a /user, which contains /X11R6/bin/X.
3. Puppy will not copy files, says not enough room.
4. Tried PizzaPuppy but HD install will not let LiveCD engage.
I just may not know enough to make use of this help.
I have 50 Dell GX1s on which to install a stable small linux OS and my next choice Damn Small, which apparently has no install issues, tho' not as friendly as Puppy.
Must I give up Puppy?
Thanks for your help.
G'day Takila, I had a similar problem and was really stumped.
I found firstly that downloading anything like this with any of the MS explorer programs seemed to commonly cause problems of one kind or another, then using some ISO burner programs also seemed to cause some problems.
This is over a fair period using different machines.
I also found that Puppy 60Meg ver 1.0.5 seemed to be more susceptable to this problem more than other Puppies, I have no idea why!
I found no problems using Puppy 1.0.4 and using Firefox as a browser, and the isoburner off this site.
I have no idea why, but I experimented with a hard drive all day and if I attempted to load Puppy 1.0.5 as an install to HDD and it failed, Puppy 1.0.4 would not load on that drive until it was re-fdisked and reformatted, otherwise the not enough room thing kept appearing..
I have been setting the drive as EXT-2 (total size)
These are just observations over the past six months and I have made a lot of downloads using different machines and ISP's. Mainly becasue people I reccommended try this system reported problems.
I have also found that some motherboards and processor combo's are prone to hic-cups, the intel stuff is generally much better. (but this is with Linux distros accross the board)
I have also found a couple of cases where changing the CDROM fixed problems. I suspected they were poor reads, although they appeared normal.
I am amazed at this Puppy, I even took files off a crashed W-XP system with it a couple of days ago.
Persistance pays keep trying!
Cheers, Wombat.