Installing Bionic Puppy Linux to hard drive

That's just a part of the aforementioned learning curve.

And as far as I know Vanilla Dpub cannot be installed to hard drive. ( I might be wrong on that but dont think so)
Well that\s a bit stupid... so in other words Puppy is ruined or should be re-named the USB LIVE only Puppy or something. Oh well back to the old Bionic Puppy it is then.
 


What is the point in booting from a flash drive every time to run an operating system? in my opinion its silly. Flash drives are not designed for that sort of use and they will wear out fairly quickly. I don't want to be booting from a USB drive every time I use my netbook. I have a hard drive for a reason. I don\t want a USB drive sticking out the machine the whole time. If this is what the new Puppy Linux has turned into then baffled as to why...

How can I do a full install when there are no options to do so?

I'm going back to Bionic puppy to see if I can work out how to install it.
My advice? Choose a distro that is MEANT to run from a full install, not one that isn't and then work your way around around to do so anyway. Even if you did manage to do a full puppy install it will negate ALL benefits AND most of the security from (any) puppy as intended.
Go for any other "light weight' distro like Devuan, Parrot <home, MS Linus, AntiX...........

One final tip on the Puppy thing: Configure your puppy as you like, layout, browser bookmarks and all other things. Use a Save File ON YOUR HARD DRIVE and from then on boot from your USB device , choose "load session in RAM" from the boot menu, unplug the USB device and use your puppy any way you want. Need to use your drive? You CAN if you order your puppy to do so and your experience will be like a full install.
 
I don't think there is that much in the distribution choice, and I'm not sure what you mean by GB/MB in that I don't know if you're talking about disk size or RAM size.
People want to be fed with applications and therefore 64-bit instead of 32-bit, and gigabytes instead of megabytes cannot be helped any longer.

Even worse there are the few who expect to be able to run 32-bit apps which will include a few hundred megabytes of 32-bit libraries. (Such as Arch Linux having a bunch of libraries that begin name with "lib32-".)

I have a Slackel installation on an external disk which is taking up half the space. But after it finishes starting up it usually takes up less than 400MB. It has been difficult to beat by anything else I have installed. Recently I installed Debian XFCE elsewhere, "Bullseye" without non-free firmware. That came with barely a hundred thousand files and 6.1GB or so. Also I have Bunsen Labs Beryllium which is about the same thing but wants almost 800MB after it finishes starting up.

So the memory requirements cannot be helped, and they will only increase in the future for the sake of comfort and security.
 
Thanks everybody for your help. I managed to get Bionic Puppy installed to the internal SSD so I can grow my hair back now. This time I didn't follow any instructions I just sort of muddled my way through it not really sure what I was doing and I know I needed to check the boot flag which wasn't marked so I marked that. I did a system restart not expecting much to happen and I got something different this time and was asked if I want to do a full install so I proceeded and now I have Puppy Linux on my netbook.

This netbook only has a N455 single core Atom processor at 1.6GHz probably about as good as an intel Pentium 3 at 800MHz so the only light wight desktop environment that I know off is Puppy Linux and I had my heart set on making this little netbook into a Puppy Linux machine originally I'm chuffed I got Puppy finally installed. Its a shame about the new version.
 
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People want to be fed with applications and therefore 64-bit instead of 32-bit, and gigabytes instead of megabytes cannot be helped any longer.

Even worse there are the few who expect to be able to run 32-bit apps which will include a few hundred megabytes of 32-bit libraries. (Such as Arch Linux having a bunch of libraries that begin name with "lib32-".)

I have a Slackel installation on an external disk which is taking up half the space. But after it finishes starting up it usually takes up less than 400MB. It has been difficult to beat by anything else I have installed. Recently I installed Debian XFCE elsewhere, "Bullseye" without non-free firmware. That came with barely a hundred thousand files and 6.1GB or so. Also I have Bunsen Labs Beryllium which is about the same thing but wants almost 800MB after it finishes starting up.

So the memory requirements cannot be helped, and they will only increase in the future for the sake of comfort and security.
I liked it when there was a better selection of Linux Distros and I don't understand the need for small light weight distros that are 64 bit only they may as well scrap the light weight distros if they are just going to be 64 bit only. The whole point of light weight distros was to make older, less capable machines faster or run better. Its also rendering all those 32 bit machines useless for Linux. The days of reviving that old PC are going.

I have Bunsen Labs I like the basic look of it.
 
@VanillaCoffee :-

Sorry; I kinda lost track of where this was getting to. Had the decorators in fixing a water-damage insurance claim the last few days, so I haven't been paying attention like I normally would.

I just wanted to add that I, personally, haven't bothered with ANY of the multitude of various installers that have been crafted for Puppy.....not for several years. I run with the 'multiple sub-directories in a single partition' model (remember, OUR modified Grub4DOS bootloader has been re-configured to search TWO layers 'deep' in order to find a bootable kernel).

I perform a 'quick'n'dirty' install of Puppy every time. I have a dedicated partition - sda2 - just for my Pups & their associated save-files/folders, etc. I create a uniquely-named directory for a given Puppy, then simply mount its ISO and copy the contents across to the new directory.

Sda1 is a small, FAT32-formatted partition, necessary because despite running all Pups in 'Legacy' mode - no SecureBoot/FastBoot crap here, thank you very much! - this IS a modern machine with UEFI rather than BIOS.......and a FAT32 boot partition is a standard requirement for such, unfortunately. Ignore the 'standard' at your peril; the system hardware/firmware will throw a tantrum and refuse to 'play ball' if you do! This is where I install Grub4DOS to initially, then ever after all I do is a manual edit of 'menu.lst' to add another boot stanza.....I copy an existing one, then edit four words to change to the name of the new Puppy's directory. And that's ALL I do.

In your case, I suspect you don't have UEFI on that machine, but rather good old regular BIOS. In which case, you simply run the Grub4DOS installer, and point it at your primary partition.....it'll search the entire drive to find Puppy, so it doesn't matter where you put the Puppy directory. It'll still find it.

Glad to hear you got it sorted on your own, though. Kudos....and respect, my friend.


Mike. ;)
 

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