Installing Puppy on Dell Inspiron 3500

[Simon Taylor]

would like to say it's Puppy love, but having been going back and forth with these issues:

running Dell Inspiron 3500 64 Mb ~ 333.9 Mhz ~ i686 CPU (with Neomagic vid card and Asus Wireless AP Card WL-107 to connect to WLAN)

have tried running install off 'installers' - with no luck: reboot / shutdown won't work / no pup_save file / no settings stored

have tried Gparting sda1 to Ext3 and using PUI with similar result

have tried connecting via said WL-107 running Puppy of CD - right driver (rt2400 - according to Asus) would not connect / connect icon on destop froze out the system

have lastly partitioned sda1 with 1000 MiB in ext2 format for Puppy's playground and installed from installer for full install (getting ready to stop the grub loading as it's included in installer) - no dice / instruction to remove Live CD - would not remove (in use) - reboot - no reboot / no shutdown / hitting off button lost any headway I might have gained.

would like to proceed with Puppy as the laptop is for my son - to learn Linux - I obviously have nothing to teach him! - and it suggests itself as an excellent introduction.

I would appreciate some help,

Thank you,

Simon Taylor

[rcrsn51]

Try modifying your menu.lst file like this:

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kernel /vmlinuz ...... acpi=force

[Simon Taylor]

Booting 'Puppy Linux Full'

root (hd0, 0)
Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83
kernel /boot/vmlinux root=/dev/sda1 ro vga=normal acpi=force

Error 15: File not found

press any key to continue...

yes. The infamous Error 15.

?

[ICPUG]

In this post you say:

kernel /boot/vmlinux root=/dev/sda1 ro vga=normal acpi=force

If the post does not have a typo then alter your grub config file to say

kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/sda1 ro vga=normal acpi=force

It's vmlinuz NOT vmlinux