Puppy Linux

Puppy Linux Installation To a USB Flash Drive
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Puppy Linux Lucid installation tutorial to a vfat format flash drive with a useful application and tricks Md. Hanbala (BDX) 2012/9/15 v2.0

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Table of Contents
1. What is Puppy Linux?.........................................................................

2. Downloading PuppyLinux and burning it to CD……………………………

3. Installing Puppy Linux Lucid to a USB flash drive……………………………

4. Extra application and tricks…………………………………………………………….

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1. What is Puppy Linux?:

- Puppy Linux is a GNU/Linux LiveCD distribution developed by Barry Kauler. It's designed to be fast and small. It can be run and installed even on very old hardware (Pentium I) and it's light andportable. - The entire operating system and all the applications are run from the RAM (if there's enough RAM in the PC) and this grants great performance to Puppy Linux. - Even if it's possible to install it on a Hard Drive like other Linux distributions, this is not necessary, because the OS can be run from a CD or a USB (Flash Drive or Portable Hard Drive) without changing any settings in the hostPC's OS. …………………………………………………………………………………………………………

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2. Downloading Puppy Linux Lucid and burning it to CD: Download the latest version of Puppy Linux Lucid from www.puppylinux.org* (follow the blue arrow):

………………………………………………………………………………………………………… *I have not make any hyperlinks (ready to access links) on this book, your PDF viewer may
automatically change it to a hyberlink to make thelinks easy to access. I highly recommend to copy and paste the links to the browser to avoid spammers (Spammers can recreate the PDF file and use the ready hyberlinks to divert you to their websites and there they may hack your pc or send a nasty virus to it or the both.
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The save dialog may be different according to your browser.

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After downloading Puppy Linux Lucid, you willneed a CD burning tool. In addition, your computer should also be equipped with a CD/DVD Writer to write the downloaded Puppy image to a CD. You can use any tool you desire (do not use Windows normal cd writing wizard because it will not make a bootable cd) .Here are some of the good programs:

CDBurnerXP, http://cdburnerxp.se (4.9MB Requires Microsoft .Net Framework) Imgburn,http://www.imgburn.com (5.8MB) Nero, http://www.nero.com (118MB Trial)
In this tutorial I will use Imgburn, a free but excellent CD / DVD burning program.

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Download and install the software to your pc and run it, you will see the following windows:

Click on "Write image file to disc", another window will appear as follows:

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Click on the file browser icon in the Source field and select the Puppyiso file that you have downloaded, make sure to set the "Write Speed" in the Settings field to 4x and insert a blank CD. After inserting the CD, the CD icon at the bottom will be visible. Click on it and the process will begin………….after a period of time the process will finish, the CD will be ejected, but it will be loaded again automatically for verification. After the process has been completed,you will hear a tone and a message will appear to confirm that the operation has been completed successfully. Now you have a bootable CD and a full operating system on it. …………………………………………………………………………………………………………..
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3. Installing Puppy Linux Lucid to a USB Flash Drive*: Now we will start with exploring Puppy first and then we will install it on USB flash drive. Make sure that the CD is in,then reboot your PC. When Puppy boots, you will see the boot screen:

Wait for 5 seconds for the OS to copy vmlinuz & initrd.gz, after loading them you will see these commands running:

………………………………………………………………………………………………………….. *make sure to configure your BIOS options to boot from USB (some old BIOS use ZIP not USB)
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That calls the command line interface(CLI), after finishing...