sindi wrote:Thanks for steering me to all the wifi drivers for puppy 1, which I like but did not think would work for this project.
Just to be clear - the 2.4.29 kernel in Puppy 1.0.4-1.0.9 fully supports cardbus devices. Any failure to recognise a cardbus device will be due to a missing driver, or the existing drivers being too old.
The ipw2100/ipw2200 drivers, along with most of the other wifi drivers I contributed for the 2.4.29 kernel, have been tested successfully.
sindi wrote:Where do I find dotpups? Package manager failed to download them.
My dotpups (and dotpets) are unofficial, and are not located in the official Puppy Linux download sites.
But I don't think there was ever an official package manager for the 1.x series, anyway. I could be wrong.
sindi wrote:I can't get puppy 1 or 2 to boot with loadlin or lilo and that laptop has no CD-ROM.
Connect an external CDROM via USB, then boot to this CDROM via floppy using "Wakepup" -
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=3875
And I can answer one of your older questions:
sindi wrote:Do I understand correctly that downloading vmlinuz, initrd.gz, and the .sfs file to NTFS partition and installing grub4dos will do a frugal boot of puppy?
Yes, but there are 2 configuration steps as well -
i) boot to windows, and open the grub configuration file,
menu.lst, in Notepad. This defines how grub will boot Puppy.
ii) open C:\boot.ini in Notepad and add an extra line, which allows the Windows bootloader to chainload Grub -
This assumes, of course, that you have "grldr" (the main grub2dos file) located at C:\
If you wish to locate it elsewhere, modify accordingly.
The next time you boot Windows, you will see an additional boot option labelled "Puppy Linux".
And be aware that you are booting Puppy from an
NTFS filesystem. That's fine, everything is read-only ...
until you wish to shut down and create a
savefile. At this point you will be
writing to NTFS. Puppy may refuse to do so, if it diagnoses the NTFS filesystem as "unclean". To avoid this possibility, prior to installing Puppy, boot to Windows and defragment the C drive.