(old)Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

Hello,
Man, I am loving Puppy 4.30. I tried it out on my system after several versions and pups, and as a trial I put it in a small partition, at the end of the drive, right next to the swap partition. It has been behaving wonderfully on my old Micron lappy, and I want to feed it and let it grow. The problem is the partition is small. I have bigger partitions at the front of the drive. I don't think I can make the partition it is in grow towards the front end?
I have been feeding the Puppy, and customizing to what I think is pretty darn cool, and loathe the thought of re-doing all my work.
What would be the best way to preserve my current setup, and move to larger digs? Is it as simple as moving the sfs file? What about all the file structure? I thought of remastering, but the Micron does not have a CD burner.
I appreciate any comments you may have.

Frugal or full install? Dougal Remaster script (Pupremaster) allows the creation of a new sfs file only so no need of a burner.

Hi Dave,
Sorry, it is a frugal install.
OK, I'll try that. Simple huh?
I love Puppy

OK, if its a frugal install, the whole thing will be installed in its own folder, say puppy43. You can drag and drop that folder anywhere you want, but you must tell your boot manager (grub?) where you moved it to. As far as I know, you cannot move it while it is still running, so you must use some other operating system to do it. You could just boot a puppy live session from a live CD or USB and do it, but I usually have at least two pups on my hard drive, and just use the running one to manipulate the other.
If you use Pupremaster with 4.3* , there are two known issues
1)The sfs file it creates will be called pup_430.sfs which is wrong, it needs to be renamed to pup-430.sfs before it will run
2)It borks the package manager. The fix is to rename the .packages folder in /root/ to something else just before you re-master, then rename it back again after in both the original system and the remaster.

Hi Dave,
OK, lucky good, I made the iso file, and can't figure out what to do with it!
I am not using Grub, as Gparted set my inodes up as 256, and I understand that messes with Grub. Never booted from the HD yet, much as I have tried. I hear there is another version of Gparted that formats to the inodes to 128? Anyhow, I've been booting with the live CD.
I'll try moving these files and see what happens!
Oops, so that means my package manager is borked now?
Thanks again