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How macpup can work in 2Gb and 4Gb usb thumb drive

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  1. barryspy
    Member

    To share info with all Macpup fellows.
    Just discovered that Macpup can boot up
    successfully on 2Gb and 4Gb thumb drive.
    Do not need to create partition for
    2Gb and 4Gb thumb drive.
    Obtain free pup2usb : http://puppy.cnbits.com/software/pup2usb
    For 8Gb and 16Gb usb thumb drive, still need to partiton
    with 4Gb capacity to boot.
    Conclusion : pup2usb can even work for FAT32 partition,
    as compared to orginal puppylinux distro, limit
    to 1Gb FAT16.
    Not successful using Unetbootin (2Gb,4Gb,8Gb, 16Gb thumbdrive)
    Barry

    Posted 1 year ago #

  2. runtt21
    Member

    I would recommend staying away from Unetbootin , I have heard nothing but bad things about it.

    Posted 1 year ago #

  3. runtt21
    Member

    Not meaning to diss you or anything but the puppy installer is my preferred method of installation.

    Posted 1 year ago #

  4. bluesplash
    Member

    Puppy installer worked great for me, until X got corrupted and I cannot fix it cuz when I mount the usb, the xorg folder of the usb becomes write protected and won't let me copy the the working cd version to the usb drive to fix it. Oh well I guess a fresh install every time this happens is the price we have to pay for the macpup goodness.

    Posted 1 year ago #

  5. Prit
    Pritlogger

    If you run Macpup as a frugal install, you can always keep a backup of your pup_save file to restore incase of such incidents.

    Posted 1 year ago #

  6. bluesplash
    Member

    Well then, frugal it is. Thank you.

    P.S. Is it possible to boot a frugal install from 2g/4g thumb drives? If so, is there a how to? My problem is the BGA chip failed or has bad connection on the laptop, and no legacy drives work, but usb drives are fine.

    Posted 1 year ago #

  7. Prit
    Pritlogger

    I will let you know if I find a how-to for frugal install on USB. It should be pretty simple. If I cannot find, then I will write up something.

    Posted 1 year ago #

  8. bluesplash
    Member

    Sounds good, thanks for the help.

    Posted 1 year ago #

  9. Prit
    Pritlogger

    I found a set of instructions on the Puppy forum on how to do this. Check out this link:
    http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=16437#104453

    I actually wanted to test this out before sending it your way. I could not find a spare usb key to do this. Please let me know how this goes.

    Posted 1 year ago #

  10. runtt21
    Member

    For anyone else interested in a usb install , I like the way Artie does it :

    http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=36014

    Posted 1 year ago #

  11. barryspy
    Member

    To share info with all Puppy Linux distros.
    Just discovered that Puppy Linux can boot up
    successfully with my 8Gb Toshiba USB Flash drive with Puppy Linux,
    using current Unetbootln.
    http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/
    Tested with 16Gb usb flash drive but not successful.

    Posted 5 months ago #

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