I am making a directory for you if you want to run linux,
Persistent linux- A boot-able linux.
Vm Linux-Linux- As a quest opperating system under windows.
Almost all of you could find this sites useful.
http://www.pendrivelinux.com/
http://www.linux.com/distributions/
Persistent
Try Unetbootin. It will make supportive hardware of portable memory bootable.
http://lubi.sourceforge.net/unetbootin.html
*Many distributions of linux have utilities to make their distribution bootable on a usb drive.
Also try infra recorder to burn a disk image to a cd.
https://portableapps.com/apps/utilities/infrarecorder_portable
Vm Linux
I would recommend watching these videos.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHL0qf9pNMw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eL8CzlxFRj4&feature=related
ftp://ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/damnsmall/current/
use embedded.zip to run inside windows
I would not recommend linux unless it is completely necessary. If windows get the job you need done than stay away from linux because it will always be a hassle. In linux you might try to go too deep into it and find out later you are not getting completely what you need.
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Try
http://wubi.sourceforge.net/
http://www.sun.com/software/products/virtualbox/get.jsp
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/winfamily/virtualpc/default.mspx
http://www.vmware.com/
http://infrarecorder.org/
If you don't care about linux being portable.
http://wubi.sourceforge.net/
An interesting link indeed.
Ed
Unfortunately most linux live cd's do not save files. You can use partitioning software to make a partition to save work and open when the live cd it being used. Other types of linux cant save any work because they are 699mb and are being burned to a 700mb cd
many linux distros will save users infos, inclusive settings in a file on local installation.
This is then used as 'home' directory and all relevant variables are stored there. This can be on any writable media.
Check all variants based on knoppix and derivates and also based on slax and other similar based distros.
Otto Sykora
Basel, Switzerland
I hope this is the right place, if not please accept my apologies.
I have got an old laptop, an IBM Thinkpad 240 to be exact, and I want to install Damn small linux onto it. I tried Unebootin and Wubi in order to get something installed but no luck.
The thing is this laptop has no CD rom drive, no floppy disk drive and it does not want to boot from it's USB port. Any ideas how I can install DSL and run it. At the moment the laptop has got WIN 98 installed. I am just interested to learn about Linux and use this laptop purely as a surf machine or to write some emails nothing to ardent really. Can anyone help?
Kind Regards DF
Well wubi is an installer for ubuntu.I have not had any success with unetbootin. My uncle just gave me his old laptop and i have tried accessing the boot menu but windows 98 or 2000 comes up to fast like there is not a boot menu or bios to begin with. Now if you had an external cd rom you could burn a live cd with infra recorder and mount it to you hard drive with what is called the frugal install for damn small linux. Though I have been researching linux for a few months now I have not found any way to make a dry linux install except for wubi which as i said is only to install ubuntu. Now ubuntu could work on your sestem but i am not sure. Like the laptop my uncle gave me it originally came with windows 98 and had windows 200 put on it. The downside is that it only came with a 6 gigabyte hard drive and ubuntu requires 4 gigabyte. On the other hand I have seen netbooks like the asus eeepc and acer expire one run windows xp on 2 gigabytes but that is a different opperating system and most storage devices have less space than they say they do. Well good luck with putting linux on you laptop.
you could look at taking out the HD and put it into a labtop, that has a working drive on it, or put it into a portable case and plug it into a usb port.
An Old Irish Blessing
May the road rise up to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm upon your face, and rains fall soft upon your fields. And until we meet again, May God hold you in the palm of His hand.
MickeyJ4J
with those older IBM laptops.
They might have rather problems when you run on it linux with kernel 2.6xxx.
In such case anyway you have to run it with acpi=no and noapic commads since it will not run on it otherwise at all.
Older linux with 2.4 kernel might work better in this case. So you might need quite old linux distro, wubi will be of no big help, this machine will run out of memory before even serious installation will start.
My Dell Latitude c400 had 256mb, the wubi refused to do the job, now I put other 256 into it and it just works somehow, but w2k is far more faster then the ubuntu on it anyway.
However such laptop with no floppy, no cd, no ??? how the hell came the w98 into it?
Do you have a network card so you could connect to internet at least somehow? Or just dial up?
Otto Sykora
Basel, Switzerland
Thank you everyone for taking the time.
Using a cdrom drive which gets plugged into the PCMCIA slot is apparently how you install windows to the laptop, but I don't have one of them.
I will heed the kernel advice.
I can connect to the internet using a ethernet to usb converter adaptor plug.
Regards DF
Here is the November 20, 2009 Link for Windows Users to create a portable bootable USB Flash disk with Puppy Linux 4.3.1 installed to the Flash Disk.
You can also down an .ISO image file and burn to CDROM disk (as a multisession CD) and boot as a Live CD. PuppyLinux will even allow you to write back to that same CD to save your settings and files for the next time you boot up. So you can run a computer that has a CDRW disk but NO HARD DISK. Is not that a great feature for a broken Windows computer with a corrupted hard drive that does not boot any more.
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=49077&start=15
They are updating this today and have a working model, that will even create a bootable floppy disk like for machines that don't have a CD-ROM.
http://www.puppylinux.org/download
I have Good Luck using 4.11 and 4.20 and 4.3.1 Puppy Linux your mileage may vary
Would like to hear comments back from other people who try the USB Flash disk method of booting PuppyLinux. You can also post at the PuppyLinux Forum.
Is there a method of getting a link to PuppyLinux under the "Operating Systems" menu in the upper left corner of this page?
The OpenOffice 3.1.1 is an add on to PuppyLinux but is operational and very useful to create Business Cards or to take a written MS WOrd Document and create through "Export PDF" menu a PDF file to share with other people.
http://www.theopendisc.com has Open Source Software that runs under Windows.
Fred
I recommend to try easy distros like Slax, DSL, TinyCore
http://www.slax.org/ ... just 200 MB and compact, full-featured
http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/ .... only 50 MB
http://tinycorelinux.com/ ..... onyl 10 MB
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If you want only one-way-linux-solution (for example Windows crushing and recovery, Internet Banking, bad Wi-Fi security, or else reason,,) - try
http://gparted.sourceforge.net/livecd.php
http://partedmagic.com/
http://www.sysresccd.org/
http://www.clonezilla.org/
http://www.knoppix.com/
http://ubuntu-rescue-remix.org/
the core developer of dslinux is actually now working on tiny core linux.
your friendly neighbourhood moderator Zach Thibeau
Another really good portable Linux is Slitaz. It's really impressive for a 30MB distro, partly because it's really about 80MB that uncompresses to memory when booted.
I like Puppy the most of all the mini distros for it's versatility. There are dozens of "Puplets", modified versions with different programs and default settings. If you don't like something on the regular Puppy, look around a bit. It's also the easiest Linux I've found for setting up a persistent OS from a live disk, most of the larger distros make you jump through a lot of hoops if they can do it at all.
I don't really care for most of the other mini distros that I've tried. Damn Small Linux has some serious bugs, and isn't being developed any more. Tiny Core is just too tiny, it's more of a build-your-own kit than an OS. Also, you need a wired ethernet to get started. Slax is a lot of fun to play around with and looks very good, but the web and file browsing run through Konquerer, which strikes me as a pain to use.
One good option is to use a multi-boot system to put more than one OS on your flash drive. PenDriveLinux.com has an interesting system for booting ISOs from a flash drive, but it only supports 10 distros so far. Ultilex is made to run several from a CD, including Puppy, Slax and TinyCore, but can easily be put on a flash drive. There's a how-to on the Ultilex site for building your own, but I haven't tried it yet.
http://www.pendrivelinux.com/boot-multiple-iso-from-usb-multiboot-usb/
http://ultilex.linux-bg.org/
I sorta like puppy for when I'm on my "brother's" play laptop and the parental controls kick in. Puppy and Mandriva are the only two Linuxes that can use the stupid Broadcom network adapter. But I hate how ugly it is, and not very easily customized (crowded menus, most of the packages don't run because GTK or QT aren't there, etc. etc.)
As for Slax, use the slax builder and add these.
I'm waiting for Mint 8 to come out before I start playing with my Voyager.
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mint 8 is already out for several weeks in full final release before your poste that is
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MickeyJ4J
I really have to fix my RSS feeds...
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http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=48484
This URL link above was the original method detailed manually step by step in "Make a Puppy USB pendrive from Windows.
Puppy to a Flash Drive for Windows Users
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=49077
This URL link is the development of a single .EXE file to execute in Windows and create a bootable USB Flash disk with PuppyLinux installed on it. Plus create a bootable Floppy disk image for BIOS that cannot boot directly from a USB Flash disk maybe because the BIOS is too old or does not support booting from a USB Flash disk.
Booting Puppy Linux from a Linux Live CD is detailed in http://www.puppylinux.org website. Tells you how to download the 105MB pup431.ISO file and burn it from Windows to a CD.
Carry Anywhere (Portable) - Because Puppy is able to live in CD/DVD or USB flash, as well as save data to these same devices, you can carry your programs and data with you.
http://puppylinux.org/main/index.php?file=How to download Puppy.htm
BREAKING NEWS: The latest released version 4.3.1 is in the puppy-4.3.1 folder!
The newest official release will be at the bottom, like the puppy-4.2.1-k2.6.25.16-seamonkey.iso that you see above. Right-click to download/save to your PC. Then use a CD-burning program to burn the ISO image slowly to a CD or DVD disc (4X is recommended for CD and 1X for DVD). A small and excellent CD burning program for Windows is BurnCDCC - just download, unzip to a folder in Windows and click on burncdcc.exe (do not forget to choose low burning speed).
http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/downloads/burncdcc.zip
You will have fun with a PORTABLE USB Flash disk or multi-session CD ROM running PuppyLinux. Give it a try for your portable uses.
Fred
i was just wondering if this version of puppy will work on a linux only computer???????
most of the apps will run in wine. just some of them will have blank or messed up menues, bland screens etc, in any linux os with wine.
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May the road rise up to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm upon your face, and rains fall soft upon your fields. And until we meet again, May God hold you in the palm of His hand.
MickeyJ4J
I'm not sure what you mean by a "Linux only" computer. Puppy is a version of Linux. If it's installed on a flash drive, it should be able to run in any PC-based computer that can boot from a usb drive. If you can't boot from the usb, you can install to the HD or run from a CD-R. It's a very versatile OS.
I haven't tried running portable apps from puppy myself. Since the whole OS is portable, I just install apps to it.
It wont work on some of the ARM-based devices, but there are some people working on porting it to the OLPC XO-1.
I have a USB pendrive loaded with the Portable Apps suite and made bootable under Puppy-4.3.1
One needs to install wine in Puppy. "MOST" of the Portable Apps suite runs fine under wine in puppy.
Perhaps a few of us Puppy users should jointly work on a How To for using Portable Apps on a USB drive with a bootable Puppy.
Thom
I have both on a USB drive and because puppy is a portable OS & most of the apps could be installed I did not find a need to install wine. I have always wanted to know if anyone had success running PortableApps thru wine over Puppy linux on a USB drive, I am glad to hear there was some degree of success. A joint tutorial would be very helpful to those who are interested in doing so. A guide could include the partitioning options, the file structure difference between ext, fat, ntfs and how that effects read/write capability. Joint effort would be useful to bridge the gap as the learning curve can be time intensive for people who are interested in using their files in both worlds. In addition it may be helpful to include information on how to run Puppy without requiring a re-boot...some emulation maybe. Reason? b/c someone posted how they must use a computer lab at school and would not be allowed to reboot to USB. (privilege removed by admin or some such scenario)