So proceed as following:
- download some puppy / wary (wary is for old hardware) / quirky ISO and burn it on CD (if possible with Puppy itself if you already use it (Menu > Multimedia >> burniso2cd) as this app simply gives always best goals...
- try to start it!
If enough RAM available, after start, you can unmount the CD! If not, Puppy will not permit it but it will often try to start as it is able to start with low RAM and add on demand applications from CD
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- If if starts correctly (you will soon know if or not!) you can really increase the spped if you save the 3 or 4 important files of the ISO on the your hardisk! Puppy will find it itself, and soon prefer to process with the files on the hardisk as it can read really faster from harddisk as from CD drive!
- if that also works, you can try after that to install an adequate boot loader (your boot loader? I don't know it!) and start directly and frugal (without full installation) from harddisk
which files are needing on the harddisk:
- after hitting on the symbol of your CD drive at the desktop of Puppy, the content of the ISO on the CD will appear in a little rox window
- create a dir (with rox) on the harddisk with a name like «ZZ»
- copy pushing them the files
vmlinuz
initrd.gz
the one or three files ending in *.sfs into ZZ
- restart and look if it works!
note: you also can look here http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 5&t=117306 as racy and wary are 2 brothers the one more for new and the second more for old hardware! They are both children from the Quirky family from Barry Kauler the creator of Puppy!