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4. How to install Puppy

If you don't want to start from CD-ROM each time, you can install Puppy on a harddrive. There are four alternatives:

• Install Puppy on a harddrive
• Install Puppy on a USB-stick
• CD-ROM-image on a harddrive
• Install Puppy on a multisession CD/DVD

I recommend the third alternative (see chapter 4.3).

4.1 How to install Puppy on a harddrive

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4.2 How to install Puppy on an USB stick

(Author: Steve D)

Start from Windows.

Format the usb drive fat (not fat32). Use device manager or this utility ftp://ftp.compaq.com/pub/softpaq/sp27001-27500/SP27213.exe

Make the USB memory stick bootable using syslinux. Get it here http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/boot/syslinux/. Scroll down to the bottom and get the latest .zip file, I got syslinux-3.36.zip. Extract anywhere convenient, e.g. your desktop. You will have to type syslinux f: or whatever the letter assigned to your thumbdrive is.

Now try to boot from the USB memory stick. If this works you should see someting like: SYSLINUX 3.11 2005-09-02 EBIOS Copyright (C) 1994-2005 H. Peter Anvin. Could not find kernel image: linux boot:

Copy LiveCD data: I used a program called winimage v8 available here http://www.winimage.com/download.htm. Copy all the files from the .iso image to your usb drive

rename isolinux.cfg syslinux.cfg rename isolinux.bin syslinux.bin

wordpad syslinux.cfg change the line append root=/dev/ram0 initrd=initrd.gz loglevel=3 PMEDIA=idecd to read append root=/dev/ram0 initrd=initrd.gz loglevel=3 PMEDIA=sda1

All done. Special thanks to Scientific Linux

4.3 How to save a Puppy-image on a harddrive and how to boot the image in RAM

This is a fine option for starting Puppy. It combines the advantages of booting from CD-ROM (protection from harming programs) and harddrive (speed). If you want to use this option you have to install a boot-manager (e.g. GRUB) first (see chapter 4.5).

After GRUB is installed, start Windows and insert the Puppy CD into the CD-ROM drive. Copy the files PUP_214.SFS and ZDRV_214.SFS to a partition with FAT32-filesystem (in our example this is the second partition, which probably has the letter E under Windows). If you had already stored the file pup_save.2fs from an earlier use of Puppy and if you would like to use it further, cut and paste this file to the same folder as the file PUP_214.SFS. Subsequently, you create a directory named "boot". Then you copy from the Puppy-CD two files named INITRD.GZ and VMLINUZ to this directory.

The partition should have the following content now:

• E:\ PUP_214.SFS
• E:\ ZDRV_214.SFS
• E:\ pup_save.2fs (optional)
• E:\boot\ INITRD.GZ
• E:\boot\ VMLINUZ

Now you still have to configure the boot-manager GRUB. Terminate Windows and start Puppy Linux from CD-ROM with the boot-option "puppy pfix=ram".

• Open a shell "Menu | Run | Rxvt terminal emulator" and enter the following comand

  mount /dev/hda2 /mnt/hda2

  

  The command assumes that GRUB is installed to the partition /dev/hda2.
• Run the program "Menu | Word Processing | Geany text editor"
• Open the file /mnt/hda2/boot/grub/menu.lst with the text editor.
• In the menu.lst-file change the selection of the operating system (the line begins with the command default):

  default 1

  

• Add these lines at the end of the menu.lst-file:

  title = Puppy
  rootnoverify (hd0,1)
  kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/ram0 loglevel=3 PMEDIA=idehd
  initrd /boot/initrd.gz

  

• Save the menu.lst-file.
• Close the text editor.
• Close the FAT32-partition with the command

  umount /dev/hda2

  

• Take the Puppy CD out of the CD-ROM drive.
• Shut down Puppy without saving.
• Boot the PC. Now Puppy should start without a CD inserted in the CD-ROM drive.

4.4 How to install Puppy on a multisession-CD / DVD

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4.5 How to install the boot-manager GRUB

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