Windows XP, 98 - Puppy 4-0 - Ubuntu Hardy Heron 8.04

I have been working for more than 20 years with Windows. Since Win 3.0 graphical interfaces (1986 aprox.) the personal computers at home became possible. Three months ago I found that Ubuntu could be installed from within Windows, since then I entered the Linux world, so far so good. I Installed Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron coexisting with Windows XP. Ubuntu was installed in my main desktop, a Texamatch Pentium 4, 480 MB Ram, 40 GB Hard Disk and 1.7 MHz of clock speed. I had been using this machine with this dual configuration for more than 3 months almost without hazzle. (A litle bit of trouble yet with networking...)

I got Puppy last night, because I was desiring to revive and old Packard Bell Legend 812CD desktop (Bought in 1995 with Win 3.1 and right to get Windows 95 as update). The Packard Bell Leyend 812CD had previously upgraded to 55MB of RAM memory, a 6 GB Hard Disk and 133 Mhz as clock speed.

I installed first Puppy 2.17. It was not an easy task due this desktop is not able (Phoenix Bios 4.04) to boot from CD.

I got great help to do this from http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=7979, and from TeraByte, Inc.'s http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/downloads-free-software.htm that provides BurnCDCC, a fine program that burns CDs from Iso images.

Using wakepup 2.02 and BurnCDCC with the Iso image I was able to install Puppu 2.17 without problems and without damaging Windows 98 that was already installed on it.

Because I did not have any trouble, I decided to download and try Puppy 4.0 using the same wakepup 2.02 and it worked fine.

The Puppy 4.0 is working, but very slow.

So I am decided to make a hard disk bootable installation of Puppy 4.0, without uninstalling yet Windows 98. I have been browsing Puppy official pages and is not completely clear for me how to do this without a lot of Hazzle. I greatly appreciate some assistance with this.

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Go on the forum and post a question for help

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/index.php?f=2

and maybe think about extra ram - it is a slow processor, so needs some help, try

http://www.computermemoryoutlet.com/CMO14841.htm

Aitch :)