Well it sounds like a good small distro to get started on.
If you feel you need to install it on the hard drive (which isnt needed, as i read on their site, you can run of a CD then it installs to ram, so you can use the CD for other stuff...or even run it of a CF card or something) there is a installation to hard drives located at:
http://www.goosee.com/puppy/hard-puppy.htm
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Puppy v0.8.5 has a script "Install Puppy hard drive", in the Setup menu. This is now the preferred choice, as it is so simple. You need to create live-Puppy, that is, boot Puppy off a CD. Go to the live-CD Puppy page for more about that.
Basically though, creating live-CD Puppy is extremely simple: you just download the latest "puppy-xxxx.iso" file, which is a complete CD image, and burn it to CD.
The install script is very cautious. It does not alter any partitions on your hard drive, nor does it touch the MBR (Master Boot Record). It creates a boot floppy disk. It does copy image.gz (Puppy himself) (and also file usr_cram.fs if it exists) onto a partition, but they are just files, so the partitions are not messed around with at all.
When you get Puppy installed in this very cautious way, you might like to read further down this page to the "take two" instructions, to see how to configure a boot manager.
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Shouldnt be too hard to set up...by the sounds of that it doesnt destroy anything...
But as mentioned in an earlier post, id say you would need FAT32, not NTFS
Luke
john gibbons wrote:
I think I just successfully downloaded the iso for Puppy and I also think I have successfully burnt a copy. No guarantees on either score, I am still in the early stages of understanding much about Linux.
Can anyone tell me if Puppy can be installed to dual boot with the dreaded XP? If so, how might it be done?
It would be appreciated if advice can be expressed in as non technical language as possible.
John.
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