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Hi everybody. I have an old P3 64 MB RAM computer with Windows 98 SE. I want to install a suitable version of Linux on it. I looked into Puppy, DSL among other distros. While DSL is the best for my machine, I really want to get Puppy. According to their website, if I have less than 128 M RAM, I need to create a swap file. How do I make a swap file?
I've never done a HDD install of Puppy, but the swap partition is usually created as part of the installation. However, you can always partition/format in advance.
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many distros do create a swap file during the install but, puppy & dsl do not. boot with the puppy cd and use the gparted app to create a linux partition for puppy & a swap partition. I would format both as ext2, this can also be done with gparted. If it already has 98 & only 1 partition, you may want to try resizing that partition, and then rebooting to see if you can still boot into 98. If you can reboot into 98, reboot with the puppy cd and use gparted to create the partitions from the unallocated space. You have nothing to lose by trying to keep 98. Gparted, on the puppy cd is all you need to set this up. keep in mind you do not need a big partition for puppy, 512mb is enough. make the swap partition 256mb.
larry
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Start here.
http://www.puppy-linux.info/en/manu...Read all of setion 4.
Puppy can work differently. All you need to do is put the 4 files on a dos partition. You don't need a free partition or two.
"'Option 1' install - Install Puppy onto a msdos/vfat partition. Puppy will just be 4 files on that partition, and will not interfere in any way with another OS already on that partition, such as Windows. Option 1 requires any pre-existing msdos/vfat partition. Option 1 is BEST CHOICE FOR LINUX NEWBIES."
See this for hard drive installs.http://www.puppylinux.org/docs/?Ins...
I read it wrong and answer it wrong too. So get off my case you peanut.
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If I install the puppy files on my main windows partition, does it have any chance of messing up windows?
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no one can make you any guaranties.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...
what model is your compaq??
larry
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I'm away from it now and won't return sometime soon, but I know that its something like 5000xx (I don't know what xx is)
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I believe that response number two is incorrect in that swap partitions should be created as a swap partition then not formatted. Using option 1 (in response three) will use what's called a loop-back file system and be much slower than a native install. I agree that you should boot puppy/dsl into ram and then use gparted to create partitions and file systems as indicated in the puppy docs...
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