[WindowsXp]

After searching for the answers to my questions on the quick guide to installing Puppy Linux on their website http://puppylinux.org/user/viewpage.php?page_id=1 and checking a bunch of posts on the forums and not finding the answers that I needed I decided to make this post.

I have been following the instructions to install Puppy Linux on their website following their steps to installing linux:

Step 1
Download the latest version
(more download sites and different versions)

Step 2
Burn the CD image file (.ISO) you downloaded to CD

Step 3
Restart your computer with Puppy CD in your CD-ROM drive (If it does not attempt to boot from the CD, see the entering CMOS page). At the boot screen, either wait ten seconds for normal boot or type '3' to tell Puppy where or if you want your settings saved on shutdown (see the notes below).

Step 4
Upon the first boot of Puppy (or if you didn't save your settings), you are asked some questions

At the Select the keyboard map dialog, use arrow keys to scroll down to 'us' (or whatever keyboard layout you wish) and press Enter.
At this message:
Enter mouse type serial, ps/2, usb [ps/2]:
Press Enter if you have a PS/2 mouse (PS/2 is normal) or type 'serial' or 'usb' then Enter depending on your hardware.

At this message:
Do you have a wheel/scroll type mouse? y/n [n]:
Press Enter if you don't, if you do type 'y', then press Enter.

That information, along with your other puppy settings/changes, typically is then stored on an available hard drive in one file (named pup123, where 123 is a number; e.g. pup001). They are remembered the next time you use Puppy.

Step 5
You should now see a screen with icons and a taskbar (similar in appearance to Windows 98/95). At the Puppy Video Wizard dialog, follow the instructions on screen.

Step 6
You're done! Now click on the Start button (bottom left) or one of the desktop icons to start using Puppy!


After burning the CD I went on to step 3 and restarted my computer. However once the computer restarted nothing about Puppy Linux came up. So, I went to the entering CMOS page. Which said that the boot order was supposed to be floppy, CD, hard disk (after checking my computers BIOS I found out that wasnt the order it was in and I changed it).

On the same page it also asked to check in my computers CMOS if it had a USB legacy device support which I couldnt find.

Once I made the changes to the computer I restarted the computer again and again nothing about Linux came up.

My question is what am I doing wrong?

The computer that I am using is my old computer (to see if I want to use Linux on my newer computer) and the specs on that comp are:

Compaq Presario 4410US
Windows XP Home Edition Service Pack 2 (build 2600)
1.30 gigahertz Intel Celeron
384 MBs of RAM
40.02 Gig Harddrive

Thanks for your help in advance.

[vtel57]

My initial guess is that you burned the CD as a data CD and NOT an bootable image CD. If you were using Windows built-in burning application, it does NOT have the capability to burn iso CDs (images). You need a small 3rd party app called ISO Recorder by Alex Feinman. This little app will give your standard Windows burning application the capacity to burn iso CDs. Once you've properly burned the iso CD of Puppy Linux, you'll need to boot to the CD player upon system initialization.

Luck!

[saikee]

I second vtel57.

Burning an iso image is a different operation from copying the file across and burn it.

A complete process in stages in Nero can be seen here

[WindowsXp]

Thanks for the help guys. After downloading the ISO recorder I burned Puppy Linux on a CD and I got Linux to work on my computer.

However when I clicked on connect I couldnt get on the internet and I clicked on the how to get on the internet on the puppy jumping off page.

After looking around there for a bit it seemed that it only described how to get the internet working on Puppy Linux with dial up and ADSL. In addition it also said that my modem should have been located by the modem wizard when I started Linux (which it wasnt) and trying to connect through CHAT, PAP and CHAP on GK Dial also didnt work.

I am currently using Road Runner on an external modem connected through the USB port.

[CouchMaster]

Everything you ever wanted to know about Puppy
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...splay.php?f=71

[WindowsXp]

Thanks for the link.

[fenderfreek]

About your internet...Try connecting it through the ethernet instead of USB. The USB interface requires proprietary drivers that most likely aren't included in a small release like puppy. I'd be fairly surprised if there were Linux drivers at all, since Time Warner is not very Linux-friendly in general.

Once you connect the ethernet, then it should be good to go and you can use the wizard interface to set it up.