Puppy Linux is a suitable for home users, lightweight operating system, born in 2003, is still in the normal update, in addition to booting through the LiveCD disc, Puppy Linux also supports installation in U disk, CF memory card and IDE, SATA hard disk and other devices, today will be carried out in the hard disk to install Puppy Linux 4Version 31 operating system.
1. First of all, we create a 512MB ext2 disk partition, here is the first primary partition.
2. Start the computer through the ISO image of Puppy Linux, we can see Puppy Linux 43.1 of the boot screen, the bootloader waits for 5 seconds by default, and within 5 seconds, you can change the boot option by pressing the F2 key, here we directly press the enter key to start normally.
3、loading drivers needed to access disk drives...The bootloader automatically loads the drivers and then looks for the Puppy Linux system files.
4. Prompt to select the keyboard layout, the default selection of qwerty American English keyboard, here press the enter key to continue, if you do not operate, the system will be waiting on this screen, will not continue to start.
5. Prompt to select the country region, the default selection is also American English, of course, you can also turn the page down, find and select zh cn Chinese Simplified Chinese, press the enter key to continue.
6. Select the time zone, the default selection is GMT+8, that is, when the East 8th Zone is selected.
7. **The wizard starts automatically, here you can choose between xvesa and xorg two x services, both modes can enter the desktop, here we switch the default option, use xvesa mode to start.
8. What appears in front of us is the XVESA Video Wizard setup wizard, the display mode at this time is 800x600x16, 800x600 represents the resolution, and X16 represents the color is 16 bits, that is, 65536 color (highcolor) mode.
9. Start gparted to check the partition, there are currently 2 partitions in the hard disk, the first one is the main partition, which is dev sda1; The second is the logical partition, which is dev sda5, and the hard disk controller is sata, ready to install Puppy Linux in the first primary partition
10. Start Puppy Universal Installer, you can see that there are 9 installation media options, here select Internal (IDE or SATA ) Hard Drive, that is, install it in the internal hard drive.
11. Select HDD
12. Select the installation partition, the installer has automatically identified the partition in the hard disk, you can choose SDA1 or SDA5, as for the file system, Puppy Linux can be installed in the ext2 or ext3 file system, but it can also be installed in the vFAT or NTFS file system, but it can only use FRUGAL mode, which will be mentioned below.
Here you can choose to install in SDA1 and click the Install Puppy to SDA1: icon on the right to continue.
13. The screen prompts you h**e chosen to install puppy to partition dev sda1, the file system is ext2, and the size is 5138MB, click the OK button to continue the installation.
14. Installation mode option, when installing Puppy Linux in the hard disk, we choose two different installation modes, namely frugal mode and full mode.
FRUGAL is installed in simple mode, supports FAT and NTFS partitions, and its installation process is just to copy the files from the Puppy Linux disc in the hard disk partition and save the personal settings in the folderSFS system files will not be expanded.
Full mode is the normal Linux installation mode, which only supports the Linux file system and occupies the entire partition.
Here we use full mode.
15. The installer will prompt you that the file is being copied to the SDA1 partition.
16. After the file is copied, the above Puppy Universal Installer dialog box will disappear for a while, but the installation is not completed at this time, and the installer will automatically pop up a new dialog box to continue the installation.
17. Enter the boot manager installation link, Puppy Linux supports boot floppy disk, boot U disk or grub boot boot, here we choose to install upgrade grub
18. Whether it is installed or upgraded depends on the situation, because there is no boot manager in the hard disk here, so choose a fresh installation.
19、the“grubconfig” script is about to be executed.The installation of grub is about to start.
20. The installation mode of GRUB uses simple mode.
21. The mode uses the standard display mode, of course, the graphics mode can also be selected on the supported graphics card.
22. The default installation location of the grub file is dev sda1
23. GRUB can be installed into the partition boot record or into the master boot record, here we install it into the MBR master boot record.
24. Unfortunately, however, the grub install error 136 error dialog box appeared.
sorry,but the attempt to install grub has returned an error,so grub has not been correctly installed.
you'll h**e to use a bootdisk to start your machine instead.it may be possible to get grub working by editing the /boot/grub/menu.lst file and reinstalling grub manually.
There is a problem with the installation of the grub boot manager, but the installer does not say what the problem is.
25. At this time, there are already grub related files in the SDA1 partitionThere is also a boot menu for Puppy Linux in LST.
26. This is the end of the installation. But will the system boot?
27. Restart, there is a problem with grub booting, and the puppy linux in the hard disk cannot be started, the reason is that grub reported an error during the above installation process, but why the error is reported and how to solve it are clear to you?