Which Puppy: Pentium 3 128 Mb RAM on a 1 GB USB stick

[jenom]

I am looking for advise which Puppy (or any of its derivative) to install on a live 1 GB USB stick for a Pentium 3 128 MB RAM ?

if you can please provide details , like exact version number and included features like desktop mgr, web browser, etc...

Thanks

[rokytnji]

Pentium 3 128 MB RAM

Sounds to me like the bios will not handle booting a usb drive.
Not unless a PLOP floppy/cd is made and no mention of floppy/cd drive in post.

[jenom]

yes, it has a working 1.44 MB floppy drive and also a CD-ROM
I am going to check in a BIOS, if USB or CD boot is listed .
thanks

[gcmartin]

There was a "concern" several years ago on use of 'modern' USB sticks on a P3 system with original USB technology. You may want to try your stick elsewhere. Or, you may want to try frugal use of your Puppy on your hard-drive (HDD).

You HDD is ENORMOUSLY faster than your P3 motherboard's USB.

Here to help.

[rokytnji]

@GCMartin.

I bet no hard drive is present. Hence the reason the person wants a usb install.
So my take is. Run Puppy on cd. Use USB for save file for changes.


If I am wrong. It won't be the 1st time.

[ardvark]

Hi...

With that old of a system, you might want to look at either some of the older puppies like 4.21, or something like Wary 5.5. However, I've noticed in the past that Wary's Puppy Package Manager did not upgrade properly, leaving it useless. This may have been fixed since that time, you would need to give it a try.

Regards...

[jenom]

no usb boot available, but cd boot is there
there is a 10 gb harddrive with windows xp on it and it sort-of running even with such a low resources
I should increase the memory at least to 256 Mb, maybe even too 512 mb
Going to make a CD with older Puppy -s after, and try to run it
Thanks for all the replies!

[rokytnji]

You can throw the save file on the 10gig Windows drive. Talking mainly if you just want to run Puppy off the cd.

You can shrink the Windows 10gig drive to like 5 gig for Windows and 5gig for Puppy Frugal install (though with low ram I would do a full install with a /swap partition of like 512MB). Just another road you can travel.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=P ... TG5h8z1fhc

https://www.youtube.com/user/PuppyLinuxWorld

https://www.youtube.com/user/sneekylinux

And when I mentioned plop

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4q3zsYCE5gA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7b4F6QJhVM

Good luck and Happy Trails. Rok

[Colonel Panic]

Hi,

With a computer as old as that I'd be looking at Legacy OS2, which is based on Puppy 2.14 and is aimed at old computers.

If you have only 128 MB of RAM, you would need to make a swap partition on your hard drive; I'd suggest making one of about 512 MB.

[Uten]

Unless you can get your hands on some more memmory you will be better off with a full install.I ran 4.1.2 (I think it was) on my old 450Mhz PIII celron with 64MB of memmory. It's not a surf machine but was doing the job as typewriter / developement machine until the power unit died.

Even thought I love puppy and use it as my main os i would consider tinycore really hard. Currently I'm running TinyCore on a 166MHz PII with 64MB of memmory (swap file on a USB HD ).

But back to puppy. Your lucky to have a cd player on the machine so why not just try it? It will eventually load

If your machine did have a working floppy but not BIOS support for USB booting, then plop could be your friend. You can aslo chainload grub (on the usb stick) from a floppy or have grub on the floppy boot an os on the usb stick directly.

Best of luck, let us know how it goes.