Thanks for that. Its an old pentium 3, only 512MB ram.
I'm determined enough to get this going, so I will dig round for a spare HD, then see how many versions of Puppy I can fill it up with.
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- Mon 31 May 2010, 12:34
- Forum: Beginners Help ( Start Here)
- Topic: Lucid Puppy frugal install failure
- Replies: 3
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- Mon 31 May 2010, 08:13
- Forum: Beginners Help ( Start Here)
- Topic: Lucid Puppy frugal install failure
- Replies: 3
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Lucid Puppy frugal install failure
I liked the looks of lupu-501 from cd, and tried to do a manual frugal install, but it fails to boot up (lupu-501.sfs not found etc).
After messing with grub settings for far too long and reading all about Puppy installations for hours, I have found statements from Jan 2009 to the effect that Puppy ...
After messing with grub settings for far too long and reading all about Puppy installations for hours, I have found statements from Jan 2009 to the effect that Puppy ...
- Mon 26 Oct 2009, 11:38
- Forum: Puppy Derivatives
- Topic: Now - Puppy 4.3.1 VirtualBox - Much Simpler than Before
- Replies: 45
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Networking is sorted
Got it sorted now. VirtualBox defaulted to NAT, changed it to bridged, rebooted the client and it came up ok.
Guess I should have read the help files a little further first
Thanks.
Guess I should have read the help files a little further first

Thanks.
- Sat 24 Oct 2009, 04:07
- Forum: Puppy Derivatives
- Topic: Now - Puppy 4.3.1 VirtualBox - Much Simpler than Before
- Replies: 45
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Im missing the networking instructions someplace
Hi all, thanks for the excellent instructions and for sharing your time.
Have installed virtual box and imported the puppy image. Cant get the browser to see out tho. What I dont seem to be able to google up is...
Do I need to mess with the networking settings on VirtualBox or use defaults.
When I ...
Have installed virtual box and imported the puppy image. Cant get the browser to see out tho. What I dont seem to be able to google up is...
Do I need to mess with the networking settings on VirtualBox or use defaults.
When I ...