Trying to install Puppy but keeps hanging up
Hello new to Linux. I have an older PC that had a bad virus and couldn;t do anything with so I decided to try and work with Linux. I did a complete wipe with Daricks Boot and Nuke program. I downloaded Puppy Linux 6.3 to a different computer and then burned image to disc. I put CD in drive changed BIOS to boot from CD and when I reboot computer I get Slacko screen. When I hit enter it gives the following message
:Loading vmlinuz.... Loading initrd.gz.......Ready early console in decompress_kernel Decompressing Linux...Parsing ELF...No relocation needed ...done Booting the kernel. and thats were it stops working and just sits there. Can anybody please help me? HP Pavilion 9780c 256m RAM 40 G HDD |
Maybe Puppy is not the way to go :)
Linux is furgal...but, there are limits... Welcome to Linux! You'll love it... Melissa |
Some info on the hardware requirements for Slacko at the link below.
http://slacko.01micko.com/notes.html |
As the last link shows, Puppy loads into the memory and 256 MB is not enough. For that you need something like AntiX.
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if you had a virus then wiped your hard drive, you can install on your hard drive again. if ya didn't know that.
but dsl is another choice Quote:
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I installed mine in to the drakeopup3 folder on my sdc2 partition. then edit my /boot/grub.cfg Code:
menuentry 'Puppy sdc2 (PUPPY ALL)' --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os $menuentry_id_option 'osprober-gnulinux-simple-e06b640b-0594-4056-ba7a-7098bbca4e45' { Now the old laptop takes a while to load and using flash will not happen ok. not with 92 mb of ram. now you can rebuild puppy with a with other options that create an extra sfs file that keeps you from loading everything into ram. if you plan on running old old stuff under 1ghz then look at an older puppy like puppy 4.0 |
a hard drive install works better than a fugal install of puppy on a low memory machine.
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As they explain on the Puppy website, any installation that does not load into RAM is not secure, as it runs as root.
Distrowatch lists DSL as dormant. |
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