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Installing to a USB Flash Memory Drive

Easy Install

Puppy Linux has a Universal Installer that can be used to install jOrgan Pup to boot and run from a USB Flash memory stick. The following steps describe what to do.

• Plug the USB Flash drive into a USB port

• Run the Puppy Universal Installer (Menu -> Setup -> Puppy universal installer)

• Follow the onscreen instructions which will walk you through the Puppy USB installation process

• When finished with the Puppy USB install, reboot your PC and go into system BIOS to change your boot order to boot from the USB device

• Save your settings and reboot your PC to enjoy running jOrgan Pup from your USB Flash drive

Manual Install (for when things don't work as they should)

The USB Flash Memory drive installation will produce a 'frugal' installation of jOrgan Pup 2011.6. This means that the CD image will be copied across to your USB drive, and a Save File layer will be used to store your changes.

First you need a 2Gb or larger USB flash drive. This tutorial will use the whole drive, so if you do not have a dedicated USB drive please go and purchase one. Also, make sure that your computer is set up to boot from the USB device(this is set in the BIOS).

• Run the jOrgan Pup 2011.6 Live CD without a Save File (use the 'puppy pfix=ram' option at bootup)

• Plug the USB Flash drive in

• Use the System -> GParted partition manager to format the whole partition to the Linux ext3 disk format (this is a safer format than FAT32 or NTFS)

• Once GParted is finished formating the drive partition, close GParted

• Now mount the USB drive by clicking on its icon (and take note of what it is called - something like sdb1)

• From the Live CD copy the lupu_525.sfs , vmlinuz and initrd.gz files to the USB drive

• Now run the System -> Grub4dos bootloader config from the system menu

• Select the USB drive from the dropdown

• Then select the "search only this drive or partition" option

• Now click on 'OK' to install the grub4dos boot system, allow it to write to the drive's MBR and make a new menu.lst

• You can now reboot and create a new Save File on the USB drive during the shutdown process

• Boot using the USB drive

• Once you have booted successfully from the USB drive you can configure the system to match your Audio and MIDI settings and customize the jOrgan dispositions

• Click on the 'Save' button when you have made significant changes (there is an autosave feature, but better safe than sorry)

If you are unsure about what to do at any stage in this installation please let me know so that I can improve the tutorial...

Installing to a Harddrive

Puppy Linux's Puppy Universal Installer will also intstall jOrgan Pup to an internal hard drive. The process will also depend on variables you will supply answers to: selecting default settings where applicable and/or recommended.

• Right click on your desktop, and under Setup, select Puppy Universal installer.

• From the available media options, select Internal (IDE or SATA) hard drive.

• Choose the drive you wish to install it to, if more than one is displayed.

• Puppy Linux will display the specifications of the drive you are about to use.

NOTE: It is highly advisable to install on a hard drive that has been formated with either EXT2 or EXT3 file system. If your hard drive is not reflecting either of these file systems, you should run GParted application to correct this.

• When ready to install onto the hard drive, click the icon next to Install Puppy to... (Please note that the drive description could change from one system to another based on configuration. In the case of most older single IDE drive based computers, this will typically display as SDA1.)

• Acknowledge your selection to install jOrgan Pup to the hard drive by clicking on the OK button

• Select the CD option on the next window. This tells the wizard where the installation files can be found

• Make sure the CD is still in the drive and click OK to continue

• Select the FULL installation option to install Puppy Linux on the entire drive. (Although the Wizard recommends the Frugal option, it is best to dedicate the entire drive to Puppy Linux, since this is what we are actually aiming to do. If you prefer to run the Frugal option, you will need to choose partition sizes and other variables that may not be suitable for beginners. More experienced Linux users will typically choose the Frugal option.)

• Puppy Linux will begin its installation to the hard drive and prompt you when it is done

• For its booting option, select Install/Update GRUB

• Select Install to proceed; then choose OK at the next window to confirm

• For the GRUB Configuration, choose the default simple value and click on OK

• Choose the default standard resolution and click on OK

• For the GRUB partition, keep the default path and click OK

• For the GRUB destination, keep the default Root value and click OK

• When the installation is complete, you will see the GRUB INSTALL SUCCESS window. Click OK

• You may be prompted to reinstall GRUB. If so, simply select No to exit