Lucid Puppy frugal install failure

[LesF]

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 can't be installed on a filesystem with inode size set to 256.

Can anybody confirm if this is still true?

My system was installed from, and is currently running Debian Lenny, which I will not be wiping out in a hurry, I just wanted to have a frugal install of Puppy as an alternative boot option, rather than needing to poke a cd in there whenever I felt the urge to use it.

[looseSCREWorTWO]

G'day LesF,

I have found statements from Jan 2009 to the effect that Puppy can't be installed on a filesystem with inode size set to 256.

The last I heard this was still true.

You haven't said what type of PC you have. If it's a Laptop or Netbook they usually have a Card Reader slot. You could put an SD Card in there, install Puppy to it and boot off that. Or you could shrink a partition on your HD, install Puppy and amend Grub accordingly. This is from my Grub, used to boot a Frugal install which sits in folder /sda1/wary

# Linux bootable partition config begins
title Puppy Linux Wary 020
root (hd0,0)
makeactive
kernel /wary/vmlinuz root=/dev/sda1 pmedia=ATAHD psubdir=wary pfix=copy nosmp ro vga=normal
initrd /wary/initrd.gz
# Linux bootable partition config ends

[LesF]

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.

[rjbrewer]

Puppy since 4.30 uses a gparted which makes 256 inode file systems.
Puppies earlier than 4.30 need 128 inode partitions.