Puppy linux installation from windows. Installing PuppyRus-A (PRA) on a flash drive or HDD. Hard drives, partitions and file systems
Puppy Linux is a small distribution created by Barry Kauler. Its main task is to be similar in use to Windows, to contain all the necessary programs, but to be extremely small and simple. The distribution works great on both new and old hardware and is very fast.
Its peculiarity is that you can get a full-fledged system simply by writing a small installation image to a USB flash drive and running it in LiveCD mode. If you think that other distributions can do this too, then no, there is a session saving feature that allows you to save all the data that you have worked with.
The distribution also contains very a large number of utilities and tools for configuring the system, with which you can configure anything you like, and very often you don’t have to go into the configuration files. The last release was in 2015, it was Puppy Linux 6.3, codenamed Slacko, based on Slackware 14.1, but the distribution is still in development. In this tutorial, we will look at how to install Puppy Linux on HDD as a complete operating system.
System requirements
The puppy linux hardware requirements are a little surprising. It looks like it can run on almost any hardware. To run the system requires 64 MB of RAM and a processor with clock frequency 333MHz.
Step 1: Download the image
First of all, we need to download the installation image. The most latest version available on the official website. But there are two versions available here 6.0.5 based on Ubuntu 14.04 and 6.3 based on Slackware. We will install the latest.
Select the desired system architecture and download the image. The image weighs about 200 megabytes, so the download will be fast. Over time, there may be more distributions of Puppy Linux. The fact is that this distribution can be created on the basis of other distributions, and be compatible with their package base. These distributions contain the same set of puppy utilities and are all considered official. For example, Puppy Linux is currently in development, based on Ubuntu Xenial Xerus.
Step 2. Burning the image to a USB flash drive
Developers advise using the dd utility to write to a USB flash drive. The terminal command in Linux will look like this:
dd if=~/slacko64.iso of=~/dev/sdb bs=5M
Here /dev/sdb is the device name of your flash drive, you don't need to add any numbers there. On a Windows operating system, you can use the Windows version of this utility. Here the command will look like this:
dd if=slacko64.iso of=\\.\f: bs=5M
Here f: is the drive letter of your flash drive. Do not forget that you need to run the command line with administrator rights.
Step 3Setting up the BIOS
When the flash drive is written, restart the computer. During the BIOS splash screen, press F2, F8, Shift+F2 or del, to open the setting. There, go to the Boot tab and in the item 1st boot device select your flash drive:
Step 4Setting Up the Bootloader
At the first stage of loading the image, you can enter the kernel parameters, if there is nothing to change, just press Enter or wait:
Step 5: Booting the LiveCD
Wait for the download to finish:
Step 6 System Setup
Immediately after the start, such a system settings window will open, it makes no sense to configure anything now, because after installation the settings will still fail:
So just close this window.
Step 7Run the Installer
There is no installer shortcut, as we are used to, the installer is located in the main menu, in the Setup section. The menu item is called universal.
Step 8: Selecting an Installer
At this step, we can choose which installer to use, for a flash drive, for a flash drive with the f2fs file system or a universal one, we need a universal one:
Step 9. Selecting the device type
In this window, we have to select the type of device to install. When installing to a hard drive, select Internal (IDE or SATA):
Step 10: Choose a device
Select the device on which we will install the system:
Step 11. Prepare the section
The system is installed on one partition. If the selected device already has partitions, you can select one of them. Otherwise, click the button with the Gparted icon:
Step 12Create Partition Table
If your disk is not already partitioned, open the Deices menu and click Create Partition Table:
Step 13Creating a Partition
Create one new section sufficient size. One or several gigabytes is enough to install and fully use the entire system. The file system for the partition can be vfat, ntfs or ext4 and other Linux compatible ones.
In the first case, you will not be able to install a complete system. The installer will create an empty file, make the necessary file system there, and only then proceed to the installation. But this option does not suit us, so we will use ext4.
Step 14 Applying Changes
When finished, open the menu Edit and press Apply All Changes to save changes.
Step 15 Boot Flag
Here check the box next to Boot and press Ok. After that Gparted can be closed.
Step 16Device Selection #2
Once again, select the device:
Step 17 Selecting a Partition
In the upper right corner, select the newly created disk:
Step 18Confirm Partition
Confirm the installation on this particular partition:
Step 19Extra Disk
If you have an additional disk with puppy linux files, you can now mount it:
Step 20 Installation Method
You have two installation options. Installing puppy linux as a file, recommended when installing on ntfs or vfat, as well as a full installation (FULL). In this article, we will use the full installation:
Step 21 Final Confirmation
Confirm that the system definitely needs to be installed on this drive:
Step 22Install Puppy Linux
Wait until the files are copied to the disk partition:
Step 23Installing the Bootloader
Select Yes if you want to install the bootloader. Grub4dos will be used as bootloader:
Step 24Setting Up the Bootloader
Select the partition on which the bootloader will be installed, and also set additional parameters if necessary:
Step 25Kernel Options
Enter additional kernel parameters if necessary, also here you can choose the name of the menu item for windows:
Step 26: Confirm Boot Loader Installation
Confirm that the bootloader needs to be installed in the MBR. Now the installation of puppy linux is completed, it remains to restart the computer.
Step 27: Reboot
Reboot the system using the corresponding button on the panel:
Step 28. Starting the system
Select the first item in the bootloader menu and wait for the download to complete:
Step 29 Setup Menu
After starting the system, the initial setup menu will open again in front of us. Here you can set the language, time zone and many more system settings.
First select the language you want to use the system in:
Then, in the box below, select your time zone:
Step 29Localization
To localize the system, it is not enough just to select the language, you also need to install the package with translations through the package manager, so start Puppy Package Manager from the menu.
In the list of repositories, go to puppy-noarch, then search for langpack. When the packages are found, select the langpack_ru package and double click on it, then click Do It in the top corner to start the installation:
After the installation is complete, it remains to reboot the system. Then everything will be in Russian.
conclusions
That's all, now you know how to install puppy linux on your hard drive and are a little familiar with the features of this distribution. As you can see, this is not quite normal. linux distribution, it can be run both in normal mode and using LiveCD, and in both cases you get a full-fledged operating system. If you have any questions, ask in the comments!
Video with puppy linux installation process:
The process of installing Linux Lucid Puppy 5.2.5 (Lupu-525) on a hard drive is not a super task, however, some features of this process can lead a beginner into difficulty. Below, the installation of Lucid Puppy 5.2.5 will be described step by step, including the installation of the bootloader (Grub bootloader), with the playback of screen images issued by Lucid Puppy 5.2.5 during this action.
The operating system Lucid Puppy 5.2.5 has a data volume of 128 mb on the CD and is capable of running directly from the CD. Its distribution kit, distributed as an iso file (CD image), is written to a CD, inserted into the tray, and the computer is restarted. If the BIOS shows the CD-ROM as the first boot device, the computer will "pick up" the CD, load the files into RAM, and after about 2 minutes, the Lucid Puppy 5.2.5 operating system will be ready to work, even if there is another operating system installed on the computer's hard drive.
Working with Lucid Puppy 5.2.5 in live-CD mode has such a significant advantage as reliable protection against viruses, since viruses are not able to get on the CD. However, in this case, one has to put up with a long start of the computer (copying files from a CD), which is a significant drawback. Installing Lucid Puppy 5.2.5 on your hard drive allows you to significantly speed up the boot, and use Puppy as a normal "stationary" operating system, while being very fast.
So, installation on the hard drive.
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The installer is ready to go, it can be launched by pressing the "Install Puppy to sda1" button, but we will not rush. The hard drive was previously formatted in NTFS, moreover, it has only one partition. It is not good. Linux, including Lucid Puppy, has its own file system, in addition, it will be useful to reduce the living space for Puppy somewhat without giving it the entire hard drive (in order to be able to install another operating system on the same hard drive, if in the future we will need this). Thus, now our task is to create a Linux partition on disk sda1 with a volume of, say, 5 GB. (Creating a partition of less than 2 gigabytes for Puppy is not recommended - taking into account the installation of additional Puppy programs, there will not be enough space.) Accordingly, click on the "Filesystem in partition" button. |
Since the sda1 hard drive was formatted by us, it is clear that there is no Grab on it. How to put the Hornbeam - see the material "Grab Loader for Lucid Puppy 5.2.5" directly continuing this article.
Author Elena the beautiful asked a question in Other languages and technologies
how to install linux puppy along with windows, provided that windows is already installed (so that when you turn on you can choose the OS and get the best answer
Answer from Gnome-forever[guru]
you can put puppy on a flash drive 256 mb is enough. .
or grub in mbr install. .
gnome-forever
Enlightened
(25348)
Olga, in principle, the manipulations are simple, but without such experience, you can get problems ..
It is important to correctly write grub to the section with puppy, and then to the mbr of the disk, you will have to edit menu.lst (manually register puppy and Windows)
The slightest mistake and Windows or puppy won't boot, although everything can be fixed with LiveCD Puppy...
In other more well-known distributions - Ubuntu, Mandriva, OpenSUSE, etc.,
All this is done automatically..
There will be more time, let's chat in a personal, do nothing for now or try to stumble puppy on a flash drive, get a useful experience ..
In general, google and read more here
http://www.puppyrus.org/wiki/index.php?title=Установка_Puppy_Linux_на_flash-носитель
Answer from Silencer[guru]
Just allocate space on your hard drive for Linux and install it. The Linux bootloader will do everything by itself, it will prescribe Windu to boot.
4.1.1 Hard drives, partitions and file systems
A hard disk can be divided into several parts (partitions). In the operating system, each such partition looks like a separate hard drive. On Windows, each partition hard drive(as well as floppy drives and CD-ROM drives) has its own letter. Usually A: is the floppy drive, C: is the primary partition of the hard drive, D: is CD-ROM drive, E: - second hard disk partition, etc. Most often, Windows uses the file NTFS system or FAT32.
On Linux, the primary partition is addressed as /dev/hda or /dev/sda . First letter ( h da) indicates the type of disk: "h" - idehd, "s" - satahd or flash, the second (h d a) the letter means: "d" - disk (disk), third (hd a) - disk number. For example, if your PC has a second hard drive, it is addressed as /dev/hdb or /dev/sdb . Sections are numbered sequentially, starting with one. The hard disk partition /dev/hda1 corresponds to the C drive in Windows, the /dev/hda2 partition corresponds to the E drive (if D is a CD-ROM), and so on. Linux can work with many different file systems, including ext2, ext3 or ReiserFS. These FS will not be read in Windows without special software, but Linux can freely work with file Windows systems. FAT32 is best supported in Linux, so for information exchange and data sharing in Linux and Windows is better just use this FS. The main thing to remember is that files cannot be placed on FAT32 if their volume exceeds 4 GB.
4.1.2 Defragmenting the hard drive
Download the program for defragmentation Defraggler. The program is good because it works faster than the built-in Windows defragmenter. Constantly updated and improved, unlike the last. Russian interface is present. So there will be no difficulty in using it. Install Defraggler on your computer, launch it and first of all select the interface language:
After localization, select the disk that you want to defragment (1), click the Analyze button (2) and check the disk for fragmented (divided) files. Such files are displayed in red. If there are many such places on the disk, and the disk size is large (40 GB or more), the defragmentation process may take a long time.
After reviewing the results of the analysis, click the Defragmentation button and wait for the operation to complete.
4.1.3 Creating partitions
Now you need to plan the number, size and type of partitions you will create. I recommend creating three more partitions in addition to the Windows partition. This example assumes that initially there is one partition with Windows (drive C:). After partitioning, the hard drive will look something like this:
Primary section: NTFS or FAT32 (Windows)
Second section: ext2 or ext3 (we will install Puppy on this partition)
Third section: Linux swap partition
Fourth section: FAT32 (for file sharing between Windows and Linux)
We will leave Windows on the primary partition. The second partition will have a Linux file system (ext2 or ext3), here we will install Puppy. The third partition needs to be made slightly larger than the size of your computer's RAM and formatted for the Linux swap file system. This is the section for swap files. The fourth FAT32 partition will be for file sharing between Linux and Windows, its recommended size is all the remaining free space.
You can familiarize yourself with the procedure for dividing a disk into partitions (preparing for installation) by watching a video. Video clip
Video size: 516 Kb
At the end of all procedures, you should get the following:
Close GParted. Now you can proceed to install PuppyRus on your hard drive.
4.2 Installation
4.2.1 Frugal installation using the "Universal PuppyRus(Puppy Universal Installer)"
Frugal Installation copies the Puppy image file from the CD to your hard drive. At system startup, Puppy reads into random access memory (RAM) in the same way as if you booted from a CD, but it is much faster. Thus, this method combines the advantages of booting from a CD (protection against unwanted spyware) and booting from a hard drive (speed). Moreover, it simplifies the process of switching to new version Puppy - all it takes is to replace some files. ()
To get acquainted with the installation process, you can watch the video. Video clip will start playing after full download. Depending on the size of the video, it may take a long time to load.
Video size: 4.8 Mb
Click here to download and view a screencast created with Wink!
You can also download the video for local viewing on your computer: Archive with the video (4.8 Mb)
To watch the video, unpack the archive into a folder and run the html file.
4.2.2 Manual Frugal installation / Update Puppy
To use this option, a bootloader must be installed on the computer. If the bootloader is not yet installed, we recommend using the "Grub bootloader configuration" ().
Boot from the CD using the puppy pfix=ram option. Copy the files PUP_301.SFS ZDRV_301.SFS INITRD.GZ VMLINUZ
to a Linux (ext2/ext3) or FAT32 partition.
If you are upgrading Puppy, overwrite existing files. Configure the GRUB bootloader by editing the menu.lst file. It is usually found on a Linux partition in the /boot/grub directory.
Add the following lines to the menu.lst file: title Puppy Linux 301 frugal (on / dev/ hda2) rootnoverify (hd0,1) kernel / vmlinuz pmedia =idehd initrd / initrd.gz
Note: (hd0,1) refers to the hard drive and partition where the GRUB files are installed. Depending on the device from which you are booting the system, you will need to set the value pmedia on the usb flash, usbhd, usbcd, ideflash, idehd, idecd, idezip, satahd, →
It all started with the fact that I loaded my laptop from a flash drive and got this wonderful PuppyRus-A system (PRA for short)! My delight knew no bounds - everything flies, the battery lasts 50% longer, there is everything you need to work and all this on a 200 Mb distribution kit! After setting up the system for myself, I recommended to my friends to install a PRA. After 3 days, I find out that out of 4 people, no one coped with this simple, at first glance, task! The problems were as follows
how to choose the right distribution
how to make a bootable flash drive
how to install the system and software on a flash drive
1. How to choose a distribution
2. How to make a bootable flash drive
To install PRA, you will need a 4-8 GB flash drive, more is unlikely to be needed. In order not to be confused with files, clear the flash drive of all contents, you can even format it. We only need a place equal to the size of the distribution image + 300-500 megabytes per settings save file - in total, about 1 GB on the flash drive will be used for PRA, the rest of the space can be used to store anything, i.e. flash drive can be used for its intended purpose. The file system on the flash drive is fat32 or ntfs.
Choose a flash drive based on speed characteristics. This will reduce the boot and save time of your future system! Use utilities to measure performance.
We will do all the work on preparing the flash drive in the Windows environment (it is also possible in Linux). We need any program that allows us to open iso image (7-zip, UltraISO, Total Commander with connected plugins, etc.). Everything we need, we will take inside the iso box or create it ourselves. Find a folder in isoshnik win here along this path: pra03-1503middle1.iso\boot\grub4dos\install\ and rewrite it to the root of the flash drive. From the root of the ISO we will copy the files to the flash drive grldr and menu.lst. The contents of the flash drive at this stage looks like this:
Now let's make the flash drive bootable. Need to work with administrator rights!!! Run the file on the flash drive /win/grubinst_gui.exe, select your flash drive in the upper window (do not confuse it with hdd and be guided by size!)
UPD: If you want to speed up booting from a flash drive, then check the boxes "No backup MBR", "Disable PrevMBR" and enter 0 in the "Timeout" field
click below Install and we get this window:
This place sometimes has problems! In some cases wingrub terminates with an error. But sooner or later we will be able to get the result, here are the ways (you can offer your own methods):
read the error message, add the suggested key to the "Extra" box and try again
didn't work in Win7, but it turned out easily WinXP
it turned out after formatting the flash drive with the utility HP USB Disk Storage Format(found on the web)
it helped if you put a sign on the flash drive boot in a programme gparted in ubuntu(select section, manage flags, tick boot).
in the environment Win you can make the flash drive active with the built-in utility diskpart from command line or external software. This flash drive Windows(disk management) will show the sign of the partition " active". For some reason grub sometimes on some flash drives it does not. (google it and find it!!).
burn the iso-image to CD, boot from it and, while working in the system, create a bootable flash drive (start-system-frugal install).
use UltraISO or Rufus programs, they can format and create bootable flash drives from ISO.
UPD: Sometimes you need to enter a key in the Extra --skip-mbr-test field.
It has been noticed that most often problems occur with flash drives on which the manufacturer preinstalls its software!
Using these methods, we managed to make 8 flash drives bootable, which refused to become bootable the first time! By the way, everything that we did with a USB flash drive can be done with an SD card, but not every device supports booting from an SD card. If none of the available ways to make the flash drive bootable helped you, change the flash drive!!!.
And so, all the preparatory procedures are completed, we try to boot from the prepared flash drive by setting this option in the bios of your device (for different devices there are different key combinations for entering bios, no one had any problems, look for help on the net). If as a result of the first boot you got a multi-colored menu with krakozyabry placed in a frame on the screen - congratulations! You've done it, the last step is left! To make the menu readable, delete the folder on the flash drive win, write the whole folder instead boot from isoshnik (there are fonts and everything you need), we are overloaded, AND !!! You can look through the cool menu!
Worse, when you didn't see anything on the first boot. Do everything described above again, you may have made a mistake at some stage, or try replacing the flash drive. there are answers to many questions related to preparing a flash drive and booting the system.
3. Upload software to a flash drive
This is the simplest thing we need to do. We delete everything that we have written to it from the flash drive and rewrite all the contents of the ISO there. That's all! Now the flash looks like this:
We boot, select the menu line "load to RAM ... ..> 500 mb" and get a clean system !!! It remains only to customize it for yourself and save. More on this in the next step by step instructions -
https://youtu.be/WJ86H8qYFAE - Here is a video - how to put PuppyRus-A Linux (PRA) on a USB flash drive.
4. installation on HDD
PRA can be installed on the hard drive as the main (only) operating system or in addition to the existing one, for example win7. Installing on a hard drive in both cases is no different from installing on a flash drive, you need to follow the same steps
while in windows, unpack the contents of iso to the root of the C: / drive, in this case you will mix all the files and folders from the PRA and Win, but this is a purely aesthetic inconvenience, it will not affect the system in any way, in this case you do not need to edit menu.lst
run file /win/grubinst_gui.exe under account administrator (run as) and install the grub4dos bootloader on disk as described above
Now you can reboot. You will have options to download PRA and Win. You can get into win from 2 places during the boot process. The first time, by pressing the spacebar in response to the bootloader's message, the second time from the ballast boot menu, selecting the "boot from HDD" item.
If the ballast is installed as the only system and you do not have the opportunity to boot under win, then all installation procedures can be done by booting from the CD created from the ballast image, then select the frugal installation and go through the steps, choosing the necessary items in the menus offered.
https://youtu.be/3b-AL7w-mOY - here is a video on how to install PuppyRus-A Linux (PRA) on hdd.
- here detailed description another option, without installing a bootloader, with the ability to rollback.
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