Wakepup2 questions

[etude]

>>>>>> EDIT 12-9-09: had two problems here, but most important was RAM. Added 64M sodimm and now 2.14R (thanx, ttuuxxx!) and meanpup (2.12 Opera) boot just fine. According to the ram meter in meanpup, i was just a few MB shy of having enough. I have not tried 4.3.1 per advice below. all working except sound card and that is a matter of tweaking ALSA config, I hope. BTW, be sure to go into toshiba BIOS (ESC key) and change pcmcia to cardbus 16 bit to get pc cards working (Xircom CE 2 10Mb ethernet in my case) racepres gets much thanks for innumerable PMs over the past few weeks. <<<<<<<<


I am using wakepup2 0.3 to try to boot from CD on an old Toshiba Tecra 510CDT with 32M RAM and pentium processor. Wakepup finds the CD (spins it up) and trys to boot, but the boot craps out just after the "loading disk drivers" prompt with "can't find PUP-431.SFS" then quits to ramdisk console. Tried all the options. I assume there is a typo in the error message (-431 vs _431) as the same CD boots fine in a machine that *can* boot from CD.

I tried copying the files to root of CD drive and put the marker file there as well, but this fails with a "ldm_invalid partitionsomethingorother" error. The HD is fat16. FWIW, I tried to upgrade to win98 SE to convert to fat32 but this is not an option without a complete reinstall from FDISK; last choice at this point.

I was hoping to boot then run gparted to push win98 into a smaller partition and setup at least a swap space on the disk, then go from there.

So, can this be done without making a custom distro first? Or is there something more sinister going on with the failure to find the squeeze file on CD? I planned to make a this bare bones system per how-to posts I've read, of course.

Recap:

1) fat16 OK to mount HD with to start install?
2) smaller SFS needed before successful boot?
3) 32M RAM achievable (pain assumed)

thanks for help. this is great fun and practice.

[racepres]

I sincerely doubt that 4.3 will run on your box.. It definitely won't on mine! Generally folks talk about running such and such distro on a [insert puny # here] ram system w/ no probs... but, Neglect to tell us that they have a 1.2Ghz processor!.etc....
Your system is a good home for an older version. I run a 500cdt with Mean Pup, but I have 80M of Ram in it. An even older satellite w/ a really pathetic ram # [seems like 16-30M from memory.], Runs a dual boot win 98SE and Puppy 1.0.8, sort of acceptably... But it was a pain to get it going... More Ram, Older Kernel = Happy System!
Details ... PM me, There are wayyy too many "how to install" here.
I will help ya if you want
RP

[Sit Heel Speak]

For an old Toshiba you stand a better chance of success with the 2.6.21.7 kernel. Kernel source code for old Toshiba's has not been maintained for the last...mmm, I guess year or two. In the vanilla 2.6.31.6 kernel the Toshiba laptop extras don't even compile unless you go in and hack toshiba_acpi.c by hand, restoring code which has disappeared from the included header file semaphore.h between 2.6.31.5 and 2.6.31.6.

So, I would recommend you try:

http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/dis ... modems.iso
md5sum:
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/dis ... d5sums.txt

devx for it:
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/dis ... s3_431.sfs
(md5sum is in the same md5sums.txt file linked above)

Kernel source if you need it, for compiling things:
http://puppylinux.com/sources/kernel-2. ... 1retro.sfs
md5sum:
http://puppylinux.com/sources/kernel-2. ... d5sums.txt