Whether you want a light OS to use on unfamiliar PCs, or just want to experience a Linux distro, Puppy is a good choice for a flash drive based system.

New here.I'm trying to install Macpup 550 onto an older Packard bell Easynote E3100 from a burned ISO CD. I can install this same burned disk on my Desktop and another older Toshiba laptop just perfectly fine Live CD or Full install.

Apr 10, 2012 - 3 min - Uploaded by ipsrsolutionsVideo on how to install and run puppy linux from a usb in windows. By Rohan Sunil - RHCE. Puppy on a USB Flash drive. Puppy on internal hard drive. Puppy on a Zip or LS120 drive. Great stuff, but we can do some more exotic modes of installation. Puppy is actually capable of booting off a CD/DVD and save back to the CD/DVD, which is what we call multisession Puppy. Then there's booting off a network.

When I put the same disc in the PB Easynote E3100 it boots from CD right to a GRUB Prompt. And I'm failing short on understanding or knowing which is the right prompt command to enter to get the full install or Live CD to run. One note: I can install Ubuntu And Kubuntu just fine Live CD or full install no problem on the PB Easynote. Rpg Maker Vx Ace Modern Day Resource Pack Download Free.

I really would like to Run Macpup as it seems to be a lighter OS for a older laptop. Any advice would be awesome, as I'm sure there is an easy answer! Six Sigma Kano Template For Cover there. Here is another method which is ' bomb proof'. It involves using a USB jump drive. The steps are (1) Put the Macpup 550 on a pc that has an operating system, either a MS Windows or a Linux.

Then put a jump drive to the same PC. (2) The operating system should mount the CD automatically and you will be able to read its contents. So copy the entire CD content to the USB jump drive. (3) Take the CD and USB jump drive back to the PC that reports a Grub prompt. Boot up the CD to the same Grub promp.

(4) Find out the disk number for the USB jump drive. This you can do by issuing the geometry command in a Grub prompt. The 'bomp proof' option is not working as it can't seem to read the jump drive. When I use the command geometry (hd0) all way to the number 5 it throws back no drive error or something. I have an older puppy Linux distro that loads just find, it's not Macpup though.

It does not seem to use grub and this version loads to the laptop no worries. Install Snort 2.9 Windows. however I can't seem to get the WLan to configure on that distro as it can't find a driver (I would presume) Is there any way that I could just some how plant or create a boot option/files to the Hard drive for Macpup so the it will load?? Kubuntu is still loading and running fine, however when I fully install Kubuntu it runs slower on the laptop as it doesn't run in ram I would guess.? I like the Macpup as it runs totally in ram and there for makes the laptop more bearable to use.

Any Help or suggestions would be great?? Let's solve one problem at a time. Your jump drive boots sucessfully if you can run the 'goemetry' command from Grub. 'Geometry (hd0)' command is to show up the partition information of hard disk No. The idea is to test each drive to see which one has just one partition of type b because only a jump drive has one partition formatted in Fat32 or Type b. Once identify this drive you use the given Grub instruction to boot Macpup up manually. You can copy Macpup into a hard disk partition and use an installed Grub, say from Kubuntu, to boot up Macpup.

However newer Kubuntu is likely to be factory fitted with Grub2 and you need a different set of instructions. If you fail to fire up Macpup with the bomb proof method, which I used successfully, and want to use Grub from Kubuntu you need to tell us which version of Grub you are using and which partition has you copied Macpup to.

Fair play.one problem at a time. I booted the the laptop with the macpup 550 cd. At the Grub prompt I entered geometry (hd0) it returned something C/H/S with two partitions, this was without a USB jump drive installed.

I inserted the USB jump drive and rebooted to the same Grub prompt and entered the same geometry (hd0) it returned the same info. I persume this is the hard drive.

I continued with geometry (hd1) this returned ERROR 21 selected does not exist, I continued with (hd2) and so on right upto 6 these all returned the same error. I'm puzzled Thanks! It is possible when Grub is loaded into memory it will acquire a copy of the Bios information. At that stage you have not yet inserted the USB device so to Grub the PC has only one hard disk (hd0). I am unsure of your current version of Grub is capable of detecting devices later after it is already in the memory but i do remember older versions of Grub1 can't do it. In most versions of Grub its version number is displayed once Grub is loaded.

Grub1 is those with number less than 1 (0.9x) whereas Grub2 will be larger than 1 (1.xx). It is possible the later versions Grub2 may has a ability to rescan the Bios continuously so as to be aware of newer devices introduced after Grub is up and running. Grub2 is much larger than Grub1. Could you insert the USB device before loading the Macpup CD? This then eliminates this possibility of Grub unable to detect USB devices inserted after it is in memory. Grub1 has ceased to be maintained for probably over 10 to 15 years now as its maintainers declared putting their effort into Grub2. Both Grub1 and Grub2 can be doctored by the distros to suit their own needs but Puppy is supposed to run everything barebone and so its version of Grub will not be one all singing and dancing type.