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| Thread ID: 96235 | 2009-01-03 19:26:00 | PUPPY Question (In The RIGHT Place Now!) | SurferJoe46 (51) | Press F1 |
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| 734774 | 2009-01-03 19:26:00 | I'm putting this on the tech-side of F1 but this isn't anything that should be considered a tech-thing anyway . . . . after all, it's just ME asking a dumb question about something I have NEVER gotten to run correctly . . . . . . . . . . . . . so here goes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . I got a downloaded copy of PUPPY, put it onto a USB stick with plenty of room, it was a WinRAR file that I extracted on the same stick then removed the WinRAR'd version as I think it's redundant now anyway . OK, I put it into the USB2 port and all I get is a question if I want to play the MP3s (which are also on the same stick and other options that don't seem logical to use either . PUPPY doesn't seem to have any file that I extracted as a runnable file or . exe, not that I can see and I've clicked on them all . Does PUPPY have to be all alone on that stick to work or can it co-exist with other data and things on the same stick? PUPPY files that I extracted are: BOOT Security Catalog 2KB BOOT MSG File 2 KB ISOLINUX IsoBuster . bin 12 KB ISOLINUX . CFG CFG File 1 KB PUP 412 . SFS SFS File 93,400 KB VMLINUX File 1,590 KB and another WinRAR file called: INTRD WinRAR Archive 1,260 KB (that's INTRD, not INTRO! These are all dated today the same ZULU time so I know they are related to each other . Other things on the same stick are: backups BOOT DVDFab Decrypter LAME TMRBlog aida32 audacity audacity-win-1 . 2 . 6 Audacity Setup avgarkt BOOTEX CruclaiScan hijackthis . txt doc HJT lame RootkitBuster winsockfix WMPInfo siw . . . all with much older dates so I know they are not related to PUPPY . Please . . . keep it simple and let me know if I have everything to get it to run . :confused: |
SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
| 734775 | 2009-01-03 20:02:00 | I am unsure about thumbdrive versions, but this (www.imagef1.net.nz) is the basic system on a CD that I use. (It works fine as long as the CD is right way up.) For a thumb drive, the BIOS must be set to allow booting from USB, and the computer must be rebooted with your mouth held just so. |
R2x1 (4628) | ||
| 734776 | 2009-01-03 20:02:00 | To make the flash drive bootable you will need to go to this site here (http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/) download a run the program, pointing it the puppy iso and your drive, unfortunately I think from memory it will overwrite everything on the drive but it works and the drive will then be bootable :punk | gary67 (56) | ||
| 734777 | 2009-01-03 20:07:00 | You can also create a bootable USB pen drive by using the LiveCD for Puppy. Instructions here (www.pendrivelinux.com). I have no idea on whether it will overwrite the current data on the USB pen drive, so make sure you back up the contents first. |
Jen (38) | ||
| 734778 | 2009-01-03 23:21:00 | Using the Puppy Linux live CD, I just made a bootable thumb drive, booted it, took a screenshot of the thumbdrive, and saved that. So, the thumbdrive contents (www.imagef1.net.nz) look like this. I opted to make the USB stick a super floppy, since I've never tried it before. Just join the dots and lo - a Penguin. ;) Using the Super Floppy option definitely destroys the data on the stick if you tell it to. |
R2x1 (4628) | ||
| 734779 | 2009-01-04 00:29:00 | Using the Puppy Linux live CD, I just made a bootable thumb drive, booted it, took a screenshot of the thumbdrive, and saved that . So, the thumbdrive contents ( . imagef1 . net . nz/files/desktop_plus_pup_files . jpg" target="_blank">www . imagef1 . net . nz) look like this . I opted to make the USB stick a super floppy, since I've never tried it before . Just join the dots and lo - a Penguin . ;) Using the Super Floppy option definitely destroys the data on the stick if you tell it to . Ah! That looks like you are viewing the Puppy-on-a-USB stick in another L-based opsys . Is that my problem? If I have Windows running it won't even access it . . . right? |
SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
| 734780 | 2009-01-04 04:09:00 | Is that my problem? If I have Windows running it won't even access it...right?Did you follow the instructions given earlier on how to create a bootable USB pen drive with Puppy? You do realise you have boot your computer with the USB pen drive as the first boot drive? Puppy won't load within Windows. |
Jen (38) | ||
| 734781 | 2009-01-04 04:10:00 | That's the files on the flash drive as seen from within Puppy Joe, he has already booted from it. Here's (www.imagef1.net.nz) mine open in windows XP | gary67 (56) | ||
| 734782 | 2009-01-04 09:04:00 | ...OK, I put it into the USB2 port and all I get is a question if I want to play the MP3s (which are also on the same stick and other options that don't seem logical to use either.... The very fact that you have mp3s on the same USB stick means that there is a Windows file system there. The BIOS will only boot into the ISO if it is written raw, with no underlying file system. A file system is contained inside the ISO itself. You will need to write the iso to the USB as a raw disk image. |
vinref (6194) | ||
| 734783 | 2009-01-04 09:35:00 | Regardless of what is on the stick aside from the Puppy image - you have to boot into it. Turn the power off, insert the USB stick and power up. The BIOS must be set to allow booting from USB as a priority above the Hard drive, and all should go smoothly. You cannot boot from Windows - (Windows job is to make you want to boot something. Or hit it.) I can't tell you what the drive I am using looks like in Windows because it is far to early in the year for me to use Windows yet. ;) |
R2x1 (4628) | ||
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