FatDog64 Install Is A Trip

Fatdog64

Note: Interesting Puppy Linux Site Here
Pets are here

Installing to hard drive: (Why? I was curious.)

It can coexist with Windows 7 but the installation is not clear (at least to me) in any single online document. My explanation may not be any more clear than others but here it is anyway.

1. Use “EasyBCD” to create the NeoGrub Bootloader.

Then add the NeoGrub as a menu entry.

2. Then you can edit the menu.lst. Here is the entry for Fatdog64 files sitting on root of the second hard drive, first partition.

3. These are the 2 files from Fatdog64 and I got them from a Virtualbox install of FD64. I put them in Dropbox from VirtualBox. I could have opened the Live ISO with WinCDemu and copied them.

Once this is done Fatdog64 appears as an option in the Windows standard boot options and chain loads Grub that EasyBCD created and placed on C:\

I assume other versions of Puppy can be installed this way also. It must be the Frugal install done manually.

WiFi Takes awhile to scan the ssid broadcasts but eventually picks them up.

Num-lock starts off.

Odd Stuff:
Text files saved to Desktop do not appear on Desktop but are in the Desktop folder. In fact saving anything is a mystery yet to be solved. I can’t seem to direct the saves.

Certain items in the control panel hate click/double-click but enter works fine.

Unsettling:
I change the time zone through control panel and FD logged of and back on. Everything I had open was gone. No big deal but good to know.

Installs:
lxterminal in and old one out (no cut/paste).

Maybe more coming ....