How much space on a USB flash drive is needed for the Puppy Linux installation? I suppose if the flash drive was partitioned, the Puppy Linux could go into a partition of the right side. The rest of the flash drive could then be used for storage or transfer of info. Yes?
Install Puppy Linux Usb Flash Drive
Can't say I've experienced this - how are you running puppy when the slow-down occurs [thumb drive/virtual machine/CD]? I believe there's a known issue with Opera slowing down, so disabling caching would definitely help if that's the case.
This allows you to install this distribution on just about any system and storage medium possible. For example, you can install and boot a working copy of the latest version of Puppy Linux on a 512MB flash drive. This article shows you how you can do just that.
While Puppy Linux is perfectly usable as a live system, it is also possible to run it on a separate USB flash drive. This is useful in cases where you want a quick and easy way to duplicate your installation.
Puppy Linux on USB; In this USB Puppy Linux tutorial we illustrate how to easily Create a Puppy Linux USB Flash Drive using the Universal installer included on the CD. Puppy is a unique Linux compilation created by Barry Kauler in 2003. This super small distribution contains many useful tools and utilities while remaining tiny. Early versions of Puppy Linux would even fit on a USB stick as small as 256MB. Which makes it great to install to those older thumb drives you might still have sitting around.
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If either of these bullet points interests your eyes, then you should carry on and learn how to install Puppy Linux on your machine. First things first, grab a copy of Puppy Linux from this download link. Depending on the Puppy Linux OS version you wish to download, compare it with the supported architecture from the download page. Your installation machine architecture should either be 64-bit or 32-bit. There are two approaches to installing Puppy Linux. It can be through an optical disc or USB drive.
If you manage to fix the BIOS setup issue or do not run into issues with its pre-configurations, getting Puppy Linux up and running on your installation media is straightforward. After you successfully boot into the installation media, you will encounter a text screen interface that will lead you to a flashy desktop.
This direct boot into the OS desktop environment from the installation media is courtesy of Puppy Linux live mode. It is popular in almost all Linux operating system distributions. It helps you interact and familiarize yourself with an operating system before you can decide to install it on your hard drive permanently.
With this type of installation, you will also need optical or USB boot media. However, the installation of the main Puppy files will take place on the available USB drive. The USB drive should be inserted into an active machine port. You might also need the aid of the GParted graphical partition master to be certain that your USB drive has a suitable partition for the installation of Puppy Linux.
For good portability, you should consider formatting the USB drive to fat32 Windows TM style filesystem. This format makes the USB drive ideal for storing other files on a Windows or Linux operating system environment. It will also be able to hold other supported Linux filesystems. It is important to note that the support of the f2fs filesystem is not viable in all Puppies. The OS installer usually determines the viability of the supported file systems.
You will also receive a prompt to direct the installer to the boot media files location. They can be files, optical media, or ISO images too. Once the installer confirms the existence and viability of the requested boot media files, copies of these files will be stored in a folder inside the availed USB installation drive. The final step is installing a bootloader that will enable you to boot into a fresh Puppy Linux OS environment from the USB drive.
With this installation approach, you will always have a potable Puppy Linux copy in hand. You will be flexible enough to boot into the Puppy OS from any computer you come across. You will also have the option of using the OS on live mode or fully installing it once you boot from the USB drive.
Most users might prefer this approach as it is a traditional way of getting most Linux distributions successfully installed on a dedicated hard drive partition. Again, to create a viable partition for the full installation of Puppy Linux, you will need to borrow the functionalities of the included Gparted graphical partition master. First, familiarize yourself with the interface of this partitioning tool to be swift and effective in its usage. The partition you use or create should be of a Linux file system.
Whether you are using a USB drive or a CD optical drive, the following are the typical steps of installing a Puppy Linux distribution on your machine. The first step is to boot your machine with a viable USB drive or optical drive containing the Puppy Linux image. You should see something similar to the following screenshot.
Hello everybody.I'm trying to install bionicpup 32 on a 32gb pendrive.to do this I followed the procedure of partitioning the pendrive with gparted, making two partitions one ext4 of 27gb used as boot where the operating system will go and the other of 1 gb used as linux swap. so far everything ok, but when I proceed with the installation I get the following error.
I normally use ext2 for pendrives (USB flash drives). I believe ext3 or ext4 are not wrong, but was told that the writes to the drive for journaling will mean that the life of the pendrive will be shorter than with ext2 which has no journaling, not sure if it is true, but never had any problems with ext2 anyway.
I think the Puppy Installers may be designed for installing to fat32 flash drives, but have not really checked in recent Puppies. I do my installations manually by copying the Puppy files into the right place (normally in a /boot sub-directory to keep things tidy and orderly).
The extlinux executable should be in Puppy. You can install extlinux (to the pendrive) with the command extlinux --install followed by the path to the sub-directory in the boot partition on the pendrive. EDIT:- No extlinux in BionicPup32 for some reason, so you may have to hunt it down. EDIT:- Extlinux is part of syslinux, but Ubuntu have split it off as a separate package named "extlinux" so you can install via Puppy Package Manager.Just to be clear, first install extlinux into your running BionicPup32 via PPM and then install it to the pendrive using the command.
Extlinux installs a file ldlinux.sys which should be immutable (can't be modified or deleted)You might also need to provide a extlinux.conf configuration file.AND you might also need to load in the mbr from Puppy syslinux into the pendrive.
hello everyone and thanks for the replies.unfortunately I am a beginner with linux in general and therefore many things you tell me unfortunately I do not understand.I'll explain what I did so tell me where I went wrong.i have a small asus eeepc with 4gb ssd hard drive and 1gb ram.with another pc where windows xp is installed, using rufus I flashed the iso of bionic pup 32 on a 4gb pen drive.after which I started the eeepc with the pendrive inserted and bionicpup32 started in live mode.at this point I installed it on the internal 4gb ssd hard disk and so far everything is ok.now I would like to install bionic pup 32 on a 32gb pendrive so that I can use it on another pc where there is xp. but not in live mode but definitely but on the pen drive in order to always have xp on the internal hard disk.this point what should I do?
There are many different ways of installing Puppy to USB pendrive. I have my way which works for me but I am not an expert and since you say that you are a beginner it might be difficult for me to help with this, but I will say a couple of things and then maybe others can advise better than me.
If you use gparted to change the ext4 partition to fat32 (or "vfat") you may find that the Puppy Installer will complete the process without errors, but it is not something I have tried for a long time as I do not want to install into a fat32 file system, only a linux ext2 file system. EDIT:- See below
Doing a manual install of Puppy into a pendrive only involves copying a small number of files (6 in the case of BionicPup32) to the pendrive from the Puppy .iso or from a running frugal Puppy. In the case of a manual install, the Puppy Installer is not used.
After doing that, you still need to install a bootloader into the pendrive. One bootloader is syslinux, but if the filesystem is ext2 or ext3 or ext4 (and not fat32), then you have to use extlinux which is the special part within the syslinux suite which handles ext2 or ext3 or ext4 bootloading. If the filesystem is fat32, maybe the Puppy Installer will offer to install the main part of syslinux bootloader for you, but I am not sure about that. As an alternative, you may be able to use grub4dos, but I am not sure about that either.
EDIT:- I have been doing a bit of testing in BionicPup32 with the Puppy Installer and a pendrive. If you install extlinux via Puppy Package Manager first, the installation to the pendrive worked using ext2 without any errors. This is much better than using fat32 so ignore the suggestion of that above.
I went back and tried the Ubuntu Bionic extlinux again (That is from syslinux version 6.03) and it completes installation and bootsI also tried a syslinux 6.03 .pet which I complied from source in Wheezy some time ago and that also completes installation and boots.
In each case I boot a fresh BionicPup32, install the syslinux/extlinux package to be tested, wipe the files from the test ext2 formatted USB flash drive, repeat the installation to USB flash using Puppy Installer > Universal Installer (NOT BootFlash Installer), then test to see if the USB flash drive boots. 2ff7e9595c
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