Puppy Linux Installation To a USB Flash Drive

How to install Puppy Linux lupu 5.2.8 Lucid to a Flash Drive

Puppy Linux Lucid installation tutorial to a vfat format flash drive with a useful application and tricks BDX

Table of Contents
1.What is Puppy Linux?..........................................................................

2.Downloading Puppy Linux and burn it to CD..

3.Installing Puppy Linux Lucid to a USB flash drive

4.Extra application and tricks(Additional)..

1.What is Puppy linux?:

- Puppy Linux is a GNU/Linux LiveCD distribution developed by Barry Kauler. It's designed to be fast and small. It can be run and installed even on very old hardware (Pentium I) and it's light and portable. - The entire operating system and all the applications are runs from the RAM (if there's enough on the PC) and this grants great performance to Puppy Linux. - Even if it's possible to install it on the Hard Drive like the other Linux distributions, this is not necessary, because the OS can be used from CD or USB without changing any setting on the host PC's OS.

2. Downloading Puppy Linux Lucid and burn it to CD: Download the latest version of Puppy Linux Lucid from www.puppylinux.org (follow the blue arrow):

After downloading Puppy Linux Lucid, you will need a burning tool(CD burning tool). You can use any tool you desire(do not use Windows normal cd writing wizard because it will not make a bootable cd),here some of good programs:

CDBurnerXP, http://cdburnerxp.se (4.9MB) Imgburn, http://www.imgburn.com (5.8MB) Nero, http://www.nero.com (118MB Trial)
In this tutorial I will use Imgburn.

Install the software to your pc then open it, you will find it like this:

Press on "Write image file to disc", another window will came like this:

Press on the file browser icon in the Source field, make sure to make the "Write Speed" in the Settings field to (4x) and enter a blank CD. (make sure you have a CD Writer or a Multi use ROM) after entering an empty CD, the CD icon on the bottom will be available. Press on it and the operation will begin.after a period of time the operation will finish the CD will ejected, but it will enter again automatically for verifying. After the process you will hear a tone and a message appears telling you that the operation has done. Now you have a bootable CD and a full operating system on it. ..
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3. Installing Puppy Linux Lucid to a USB flash drive*: Now we will start on the Puppy, make sure that the CD is in then restart your PC. When the puppy boots, you will see the boot screen:

Wait for 5 seconds for copying vmlinuz & initrd.gz, after loading you will see this commands running:

.. *make sure that you configure you BIOS options to boot from USB(some old BIOS use ZIP not USB)
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That calls the command line interface(CLI), after finishing loading, you will see the Puppy Linux Lucid desktop:

Nice, isn't it? You will hear two barks and a message that welcoming you to Puppy Linux Lucid. Then will come to you the Personalize wizard, from it you can change the user name, country, time zone, keyboard layout and screen resolution:

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The default name is "puppypc"..but I will change it to "mypc":

Change whatever is suitable with your country then press OK, another dialog will come asks you to restart X-server:

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Press YES then the X-server will restart(restarting X-server doesn't mean restarting the PC) After restarting you will be switch back to the command line Interface(CLI), seeing the old loading commands. At the end you will see this message: (The networking hostname has been changed. To return to the desktop, please type "logout" and then "xwin") Type logout then press enter, then type xwin then press enter to return to the desktop. After restarting the X-server you will see this window:

This is the wizard that will help you to connect to the internet, if you have an available internet connection and already activated press eth0 (this may change from connection to another), if it isn't activated close the window then activate it. I have an ADSL modem router which I will use it as an example, press on the connect icon on your desktop, you will see this window:
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Tick on the Simple Network Setup then press OK, Nothing will come, press on the connect icon again and the previous wizard window will come:

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You notice that eth1 have been added, press on eth0 and this message will came and it will do all the hard work:

After finding a network you will have this dialog:

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Press OK, and you will have an live connection to the internet. Otherwise open the wizard again and press on eth1.

Now feel free to explore puppy linux, enter any application you see, and adapt yourself with the atmosphere of Puppy linux(Don't worry, your running from the CD which means anything goes wrong, just restart the pc, nothing will be saved), open the menu and see what's hiding in it. Sadly there isn't a default internet browser, but you can have one. Press on the browser icon will come: on your desktop, then this window

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Choose the browser that you like and it will be downloaded to your puppy.

After exploring Puppy Linux Lucid, it's time to put it on a USB flash drive. Press menu>Setup>BootFlash Install Puppy to USB

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The next dialog will came:

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Tick the USB-HDD then press OK

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Here the program tell you to plugin the USB drive, plugin the flash drive then press ok(wait until the flash drive is recognized like the next pic)

The flash drive is known as "sdb1"(in linux the devices is recognize as "sdb" "sda" sdc" usually the hard disk drive is recognize as "sda", "sdb" & "sdc" for the portable devices, "sr" for the CD ROM, the number next to it refer to the partition number, more partitions more numbers)press OK to continue.

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Here you will choose the flash drive(if there is more then one, more choices will come)

Reconfirm by pressing OK

Wait until it's formatting.

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Now your USB device is bootable, press Exit,finished. Now we come to the real installation, the best in it that it will take about 5 minutes to install. impressive, right? Press on menu>Setup>Puppy Universal Installer

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The Puppy universal installer(PUI) is the main installing wizard for puppy linux, from it you can put puppy linux to any device. After opening Puppy Universal Installer this dialog will come:

In our example we use the flash drive, so we will press on USB Flash drive then OK

Choose the flash drive, press OK

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Press on Install Puppy to sdb1(on the top)

Press OK

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Since we boot from CD, we will choose CD

Make sure the CD is in and press OK(in case if you press OK and this dialog came):

Press OK a dialog will come:

Close it and mount the CD by clicking the CD icon (on the right)until a green dot will appear on it, a window will come showing you what's on the CD, close it and open the PUI and continue to were you stopped.

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The dialog above is for the Master Boot Record(mbr), just press default then OK

Also press default then OK

Press Enter
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We will answer here with No, because we don't want to delete what have we done on the BootFlash Install Puppy to USB. Press Enter

Now, you will answer depend on the size of your ram, so if you have a ram with less than 256MB you will answer NO(Enter), but if you have a ram with more than 256MB you will answer YES(any char then Enter, for example y then Enter), It is recommended that you answer YES to make the OS copied to the ram when it's booted, which makes Puppy Linux super in performance.

After a while the installation will finished, press Enter. The CD will ejected automatically(in case the error of the CD haven't come), In case the error of the CD comes right click on the CD icon an press "unmount sr0 (if currently mounted)". Now you have your own operating system on your USB flash drive and ready to go.
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 4. Extra application and tricks(Additional): - Here's a good application for the desktop, it calls Pwidgets. Pwidgets make an analog clock, calendar, weather, sidebar colors and many more, here's the link: http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=35601

Download the two files that is mark next to the arrow:

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A username and password is required:

User name: puppy Password: linux

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After finishing downloading, install the two packages by pressing on it:

a dialog will came, Press OK:

In a matter of seconds this dialog will came:

Install the other one and you will find the application in menu>Desktop>Desktop Settings>Pwidgets tiny desktop apps (the second package have an extra clock shapes and other) Enjoy. - Now I'll show you a wonderful trick that will make your desktop even better, open the file icon
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on your desktop then click

on the return icon folder

(the green arrow), then enter the usr then applications

then the share folder

folder , in this folder you can find most of the applications that it's ready for the desktop, in this example I will take the "pmusic" which it is the music player, I took it from the folder then I drop it on the desktop:

Then press right click of the mouse on the app icon, then press Edit Item:
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Then this dialog will came:

I will rename it to "My Music"

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Press OK

After renaming press the right click of the mouse then File "My music" then Set Icon:

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You can drop and image file(jpg,png,bmp,ico) to the "Drop an icon file here", after droping you will have the application with your own icon and name:

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