Anyone - Trying to boot puppy on a dell latitude XPi CD, 150mhx pentium processor, 2gb HD. will only boot from floppy or HD (no USB except with pcmcia card), running win98 2nd edit..
puppy iso no problem. Wakepup won't fit on a 1.44 mb floppy. Newly formatted floppy made from win7 machine gets error message not enough space on the disk to load wakepup iso.
I am not a linux guru, and am new to this forum. Could use some help!
Tuneturkey
Wakepup on floppy
Wakepup is designed to fit on a floppy.Wakepup won't fit on a 1.44 mb floppy. Newly formatted floppy made from win7 machine gets error message not enough space on the disk to load wakepup iso.
How are you trying to install to floppy?
You could try a boot floppy of Grub4dos boot loader or Grub boot loader.
You can make one with Grub4dos bootloader config program.
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The things they do not tell you, are usually the clue to solving the problem.
When I was a kid I wanted to be older.... This is not what I expected
YaPI(any iso installer)
When I was a kid I wanted to be older.... This is not what I expected
YaPI(any iso installer)
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Tuneturkey
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wakepup on Floppy
I downloaded the ZIP file, extracted the .ISO and used copy paste to transfer it to the floppy. I am using WIN7 on a P4, 3ghtz pc, with a Sony2XFDD usb floppy drive. The wakepup iso is larger then 1.44 mh.
If i go the GRUB approach, where do i find the file to download. i am new to this forum and also to Linux.
Thanks
If i go the GRUB approach, where do i find the file to download. i am new to this forum and also to Linux.
Thanks
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Tuneturkey
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Wakepup on Floppy
considering the size of the memory and HD on the Dell, my intent is to get a version of puppy running, as the sole OS. no dual boot.
At one time I had a floppy with boot2pup, but was over written. it did boot to a CD with the ISO.
if you can suggest an alternative way to get puppy on the laptop, I am open to suggestions. the pc will boot to a floppy or the HD only.
it currently has win98 2nd ed., but it is slow. My thought is that puppy will be faster, and the pc can be used for email, facebook, etc. no serious computing.
Thanks
At one time I had a floppy with boot2pup, but was over written. it did boot to a CD with the ISO.
if you can suggest an alternative way to get puppy on the laptop, I am open to suggestions. the pc will boot to a floppy or the HD only.
it currently has win98 2nd ed., but it is slow. My thought is that puppy will be faster, and the pc can be used for email, facebook, etc. no serious computing.
Thanks
Try the PLOP boot manager to get started. Grub4Dos will allow dual-booting your Puppy and Windoze.
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=78880
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=78880
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Dewbie
Tuneturkey wrote:
---->wkpup202.zip
That's the one you want, at bottom of the first post; not the .iso.zip above it.
Instructions for making a WakePup2 floppy with Windows appear in that post.
You will need to make sure BIOS boots from floppy before the hard drive.
The Puppy hard-drive partition must be formatted in either FAT or FAT32, and Puppy must be installed frugally.
(Also, given your specs, consider this as a possible operating system.)
First, go here.I downloaded the ZIP file, extracted the .ISO and used copy paste to transfer it to the floppy.
---->wkpup202.zip
That's the one you want, at bottom of the first post; not the .iso.zip above it.
Instructions for making a WakePup2 floppy with Windows appear in that post.
You will need to make sure BIOS boots from floppy before the hard drive.
The Puppy hard-drive partition must be formatted in either FAT or FAT32, and Puppy must be installed frugally.
(Also, given your specs, consider this as a possible operating system.)
Last edited by Dewbie on Mon 23 Jul 2012, 23:16, edited 1 time in total.
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Tuneturkey
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Great that worked great. 
1. based on the laptop specs, limited memory and HD, I suspect that I should use choice 2 for older computers, correct?
puppy boots from the cd.
2. how do i set it up to boot directly from the HD, no cd or floppy needed? The hD still has win98 plus other stuff that is of no value, so i don't mind losing it.
3. since the laptop does not have a USB port, but does have 2 PCMCIA slots, I was using network pcm cards, and a usb pcm card for network access, and a linksys usb adapter for internet and network. Are there drivers for these devices?
4. the iso I loaded is for 4.2.1. is it possible that a later version might run given the limited mem and HD?
I appreciate all the help.
1. based on the laptop specs, limited memory and HD, I suspect that I should use choice 2 for older computers, correct?
puppy boots from the cd.
2. how do i set it up to boot directly from the HD, no cd or floppy needed? The hD still has win98 plus other stuff that is of no value, so i don't mind losing it.
3. since the laptop does not have a USB port, but does have 2 PCMCIA slots, I was using network pcm cards, and a usb pcm card for network access, and a linksys usb adapter for internet and network. Are there drivers for these devices?
4. the iso I loaded is for 4.2.1. is it possible that a later version might run given the limited mem and HD?
I appreciate all the help.
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Dewbie
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Tuneturkey
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Dewbie
Tuneturkey wrote:
So I would consider this instead.
Does it have an IDE hard drive?
Could you pull it, connect it to another computer and do the setup, then reinstall it?
While Akita looks promising, Sc0ttman didn't provide minimum system requirements.40mb
wish I could say a bigger number, but it is what it is.
So I would consider this instead.
Does it have an IDE hard drive?
Could you pull it, connect it to another computer and do the setup, then reinstall it?
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Tuneturkey
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