Step 3 Restart you computer with Puppy CD in your CD-Rom
drive. (If it does not attempt to boot from the CD,
see this page)
At the boot screen, Type '1', '2' or '5' to tell Puppy
if you want your settings saved on shutdown and where
to save them (see the session below).
Step 4
Upon restart, you are asked some questions
* At the Select the keyboard map dialog,
use arrow keys to scroll down to us
(or whatever keyboard character system
you wish) and press Enter.
* At this message: Enter mouse type serial, ps/2, usb [ps/2]:
Press Enter if you have a ps/2 mouse
(ps/2 is normal).
* At this message: Do you have a wheel/scroll type mouse? y/n [n]:
Press n if not, else type y, then press Enter.
That information is then stored on an available hard
disk in one file (called pupXXX, where XXX is a number)
along with your puppy settings. They are remembered
next time you use Puppy.
Step 5
You should now see a screen with wallpaper and taskbar
(like what you have in Win98). At the Puppy Video
Wizard dialog, follow the instructions on screen.
Step 6
Done! Now click on the start button (bottom left) to
start using Puppy!
Puppy can be run in many different ways
You can run it off a CD (LiveCD) or install it to a hard drive, USB card, a Zip drive, etc.
1. Run from CD - the easiest way to try Puppy out
You don't need a hard disk to run Puppy. No
installation is required either
You can choose whether to save your settings (any changes you made to Puppy
after boot up) or not, by typing '1' or '2' when the CD boots
1 = Normal boot configuration and data saved on Hard Disk settings are saved in a 256M file
(less if there isn't enough space) called pup001 in the hard drive
2 = Do not touch the Hard Disk (thus hard disk not required) nothing will be saved and you'll be asked your settings (keyboard / mouse / video) every time Puppy boots
'pup001' is just a compressed file on the first
partition of your hard drive. It won't make any changes to your
computer
Or, if
you press '5' when the CD boots for the first time (do not use without further investigation), it will become a multi-sessioned CD. All settings will be saved (burned) as a track to the CD. Nothing
saved to hard drive, so again, hard drive is not needed. Burning is done
automatically on shutdown.
2. Install to hard drive
You don't need to read this part if you are a first time user of Puppy.
Before installing Puppy to hard drive, it's good to know more about how Puppy works.
See here for a short introduction.
As Puppy runs in a ‘virtual drive’ and is contained
in 4 files it does not really need to be installed the same way that
other operating systems usually are. All that is required is for the
files to be located where you wish and be bootable by some medium such
as a floppy disk, a CD or from the Master Boot Record (MBR).
One can
install Puppy to hard disk by running the installtion script (Start
-> Setup -> Install Puppy hard drive). Two types of installation are
available:
'Option 1' install - Install Puppy onto a msdos/vfat partition. Puppy will just be 4 files on that partition, and will not interfere in any way with another OS already on that partition, such as Windows.
Option 1 requires any pre-existing msdos/vfat partition.
Option 1 is BEST CHOICE FOR LINUX NEWBIES.
'Option 2' install - Give Puppy his own partition. There are a few ways this can be done, but this script requires that you have a spare partition that Puppy can take over entirely. This option is recommended for anyone interested in developing applications for Puppy, as it gives the most flexibility. With this option, Puppy does NOT run in a ramdisk, and /usr folder is read-write.
Option 2 requires a pre-existing spare partition. Puppy will convert it to ext2 filesystem. PARTITION WILL BE ERASED! (partition will not be erased if you are doing an upgrade)
Other ways to install Puppy without using this script can be found here, here, here and here
3. To install to other media
such as USB drive please see here
