The beautiful page on how to do a frugal install talks about XP, and I used it when I had XP, with no problems. Now I have Vista. Does it apply, without change, to Vista? If not, what has to be done to install with Vista? I would use EasyBCD to do a dual boot. I have done umpteen searches on the For...

I have discovered that the Netcomm NP544 USB dongle has Ralink chipset RT2501USB. This can be found at www.atlantis-land.com (which is in Italian, but the specs are in English). The specs also show as: RT2501USB (RT2508+RT2571W) I got wireless to work with Pup4.11. However, I had to by-pass Ndiswrap...

Today I posted a similar problem with wlan0.
Is there a similar workaround for wlan?

Puppy 4.1 frugal install on my widoze vista PC works really well, and all changes, except connection details (ndiswrapper) are saved for next bootup. So I have to re-set the connection each time after booting up. Is there something I'm missing? I can post more details, if someone can tell me what de...

Thanks for the suggestion, icpug.
I'll try with the live CD.
If it saves, I'll move the pupsave to where puppy4.00 is - actually, it's on the Win H/drive root, i.e C: ,in windows talk. The puppy files are on the bare root, not in a folder on the root.
I''l post the resutlt.
Thanks again

Both Vista and Puppy4.00 boot OK with EasyBCD. Puppy 4.00 is a frugal install on C: However, Puppy doesn't save the session on shutdown. The Grub text is as follows: kernel (hd0,0)/vmlinuz root=/dev/sda1 PMEDIA=idehd initrd (hd0,0)/initrd.gz boot What must I do to get Puppy to save the session on ex...

Hi ColinB
That info re removing h/drive looks really useful. I feel encouraged to try!

Hi muggins - and everyone who has made suggestions. Ye olde laptop is a CompactPresario 1692. I did have Puppy on it, via a dying CD drive, but then I trashed Grub (don't know how), and then the laptop became pretty useless. Now I'm trying to revive it, without a CD or floppy drive, and no hardware/...

Hi Sage You may recall that some time back I asked a similar question, and you suggested I remove the laptop CD drive and replace it with a new (or 2nd hand, I suppose) one. I tried , but I couldn't get the darn back of the L/top open. I think I'd have the same problem with the H/drive. I will try a...

Iwill: Thanks for your post. Did you mean that you removed the h/drive from your desktop, then connected the laptop to the desktop with the IDE adaptor? I'm reluctant to remove the hard drive from my desktop - you know, "if it ain't broke, don't fix it", or in this case, "don't mess w...

:cry: I have an old laptop (Compaq Presario 1630) of which the CD drive and floppy drive are kaput, and which doesn't have an option to boot from USB. Moreover, the MBR is broken, and trying to boot from the H/disk (which once had Puppy on it) shows a broken Grub that won't go beyond the first stage...

Sorry - I solved it by fiddling around. First I set up alsa mixer with maximum settings.Then I used Puppy sound mixer likewise. GXine seems to be OK now.

I'm running puppyOS RC5,. I can't get sound at all. When I run GXine it cuts out of X and into the non-gui screen, where I have to type xwin to get back to the gui desktop. I've searched puppy for info, but it seems to be very technical and not related to the problem. My sound card is a REALTEK HIGH...

I can say with absolute certainty that this world (Earth) - will end sometime between now and a few billion years. so why worry?

Thanks maddox and klu9 - that was very helpful.

Is there a simple way to update from puppy3.01rc4 to rc5, without re-installing the whole iso?
Thanks for any advice.

Well said mcewanw! Pizzagood: many Original Australians (OA) live under shameful third-world style conditions because they and their ancestors have had their lands stolen by settlers. Their culture and languages have been destroyed, and their children taken from them by the combined efforts of vario...

Thanks everyone - you've been very helpful. Now I have an embarassing confession to make: :oops: just yesterday I discovered that pressing ESC when booting up my computer produces a boot menu where there is a choice to boot from USB stick :oops: My only excuse is that it's a new machine - just 2 wee...

Sorry folks! I just noticed this thread in Howto:
"How to make a multi-purpose boot CD for Puppy"
I'll try it.

Can wake2pup be installed on a CD? My new VISTA machine doesn't have a floppy.

It seems they don't make them with floppies these days, which is a pity - I have loads of stuff on floppies - old docs from way back that I'd like to access. I suppose I'll have to buy a floppy drive.