I have managed to get it to boot from the floppy but not been able to get it to see the PCICMA CDROM drive with puppy linux on it.
At the moment it is running
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Anybody able to give me some pointers on this one?
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puppy ide1=0x180,0x386 nopcmcia acpi=off
Agreed.. Tho I prefer Mean Puppy..tempestuous wrote:Oh, regarding 64MB RAM, that's quite a limiting factor. If you're keen on running Puppy in RAM, it will be essential to increase your RAM. You will require RAM that is unique to that model of VAIO, but it should still be available on eBay. If, like my PCG-505, the maximum RAM is 128MB, you can forget about using the latest Puppies. You should go back to Puppy 214X, and maybe even Puppy 2.01.
An easier option would be to do a full HD installation. Nuke your hard drive and format it with ext3. Then reboot and do a full HD install. Now the RAM requirements are really modest.
Without a working CD drive, it will be difficult. Is your bios set so that you can boot from a CD?hairybiker wrote:I have a viao pcg-c1f, (233 pentium/64Mb/4Gb HDD)
I have managed to get it to boot from the floppy but not been able to get it to see the PCICMA CDROM drive with puppy linux on it.
At the moment it is runningWin98
but I want to completely wipe it and run linux on it.
Anybody able to give me some pointers on this one?
As you say, it sounds like an addition to your menu.lst file is needed.Is there any parameters I can pass to use usb/sata ?
Here's a good how-to on full installs using puppy 4.01. There wasn't a choice like on image 26?there was no option for frugal/full on the install menu just choose the hdd and press ok.
That might help--and you might try experimenting.EDIT: will try the PMEDIA=satacd to see if it boots.