CPU = Intel q9550 (quad core - 2.83GHz)
RAM = 2 x 2GB DDR2-800MHz
Graphics = NVidia 8600GT (1GB GDDR2)
monitor = LG W2252TQ (LCD - 1680x1050)
HDD = 3 x 500GB seagate sata2
optical = 18x DVDR/W DL - sata (sata2 ??)
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installed OSs :
Windows 7 Pro (gaming with flatmate & friends)
Xubuntu == main O.S ...

just something I'd like to add - for flash and otherrrs who might not be familiar with xfce ...
it also happens to (in my experience) play very nicely with the whole compiz / compiz-fusion environment - and it's probably the most light-weight desktop available that does so (erm, unless anyone know ...

I'm going to ignore the blah of should he shouldn't he etcetera ...
fact is Doglover wants to, and appears to have permission to use a swap partition on the machine in question ...
what I have to contribute though, may make the whole lot a bit moot. (well, kinda)

I read the query on a thread awhile ...

in what way are you useing puppy ???
by that - what I mean is - are you ...
booting the live CD ? (if so then, do you have a save file, if so then where)
frugal install ? (if so does puppy have his own folder/directory - or are the puppy file in the root of a drive/partition)
full install ?
erm, to ...

hmmm, let's see, things to check / consider ...
you're getting to the Grub menu alright - so presumably Grub is okay.
can you post your "menu.lst" from Grub ...
Question ::: Does Windows XP boot okay when chosen from it's own menu item ?
(if yes - hal.dll & windows etc. are okay)

hi pcguru,

I created a text file and renamed it as pup_save_Zfake.3fs along with my original pup_save.2fs in Puppy 2.14 frugal installed. Puppy tried to mount my pup_save_Zfake.3fs and returned with a lot of red lines during reboot. It didn't ask me to choose anything. I had to boot into other OS ...

lets see ...
puppy has, as of version 2.13, returned to using the ext2 file system in the save file, previous was ext3 (and much previous was ext2 also)
dunno if this has anything to do with the current problem of 'ignoring' multiple save files etcetera, but anyways ...

my suggestion is NOT to ...

sorry took me so long tae get back here (personal life isa bit busy ATM)
anyways - I've heard o' these difficulties with 2.14+
seems to me though if the 'fake' (or any of the real) save files ends with a .3fs that it works as usual - that is ; the problem is only with multiple .2fs save files.
and ...

in the past I did what you are wanting to (boot a frugal install without save file loading) by creating a file in the same place as the savefile and calling it something like pup_save-Zfake.3fs - if in XP I just created an empty text file
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I have learned there are other (better?) ways of doing this ...

starting puppy with
"puppy pfix=ram"
doesn't / won't work - BUT - all I've ever had to do to sort this out was to run the 'mut' (media utility tool ?)
you can see in muts' display the swap partition, and there is a button you can click to turn 'swapoff'
- okay, I'm assuming everyone has the same as ...

nup, not early atall - in fact it's been 2007 for almost a 1/2 hour now
just thought I'd hop on and be the first (hope not the only) to wish everyone puppy-related a happy new year ...
ah've been havin' soo much darn fun aith pup - keep up the good work guys
and don't ferget tae take a break ...

system ==
[Motherboard] Gigabyte GA-7VT600 1394
AMD Athlon-XP 2800+
1GB DDR RAM (2x512MB)
2x80 GB HDD
[CD-R/W] erm, some 'DIAMOND DATA' thing ?
[DVD-R/W] TSSTcorp CD/DVDW TS-H552U
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Burning/writing software
BurnCDCC (ReadVerify not ticked, SAO not ticked & Finalize not ticked - Speed set right back ...