Download puppy linux to sd card app

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In each case I just downloaded the iso to my desktop computer; used dd to copy the iso to a USB flash drive; booted the desktop PC from the flash drive; plugged in the SD card; and installed, selecting the SD card as the target.

If you're used to a full version of Linux, I highly recommend getting a decent size SD card 8 GB is kind of marginal and going with a distro with which you are familiar. The various methods of installing Puppy are at the site below. Ask your question here. There are the experts on Puppy. Originally Posted by Fixit7. Last edited by John Roe; at PM.

Unetbootin is not the best way to 'burn' an iso to usb. Since about , modern liveCD. From Linux you can do this using dd and from Windows you can use win32diskimager. Unetbootin was designed at a time when liveCD and install CDs were pure. At the time, netbooks that lacked optical drives either needed a special.

Unetbootin filled the gap. The introduction of the hybrid. As for booting from an SD card, this depends largely on the 'bios' or firmware of the device. Atom based tablets should be able to run the average x86 distro, but whether that will boot from SD or not will depend on the firmware. S: Running Puppy, or any other desktop Distro, on a purely touchscreen device may be helluva tricky.

You will have to install support for touch-screens and an on-screen keyboard which is usually not included in the default version of the distro. Not sure if any of the recent Puppies can do this.

Furthermore, I have no idea how it might work on a tablet. My goal is total removal of the Windows OS. I appreciate that helpful post, RockDoctor. It seems to have a USB drive so that is an option. Unetbootin has never worked for me but will give it a try when able. Your goal of removing Windows completely is admirable. Linux is most excellent, but there a a few tasks that are better performed using Windows. Not saving the session does not leave a trace of the operating system as Puppy runs entirely in RAM and as soon as the computer is powered off the RAM is flushed.

This is ideal from a security perspective for internet banking or other sensitive financial transactions performed over the internet. You can save the session to a harddrive or an USB drive in a vfat, ntfs or linux [1] partition. This will save all your settings to what is known as a pupsave [2] file or folder. When you boot off the same media next time the pupsave will be found and all your files and settings will be as you left them. If you booted off of optical media you can save the session and all settings back to that same optical disc.

Naturally you can actually install Puppy if you wish. Once you boot Puppy and are happy with what you see it is time to open the Puppy Installer from Setup in the main menu. There are 3 main types of install; frugal , USB and traditional full install. This type of install copies the main puppy files from the boot media either optical or USB to your harddrive. Firstly, you are presented with some information about your system and what partitions you have available.

Once this is done you are prompted for the location of your boot media files either an iso image, optical media or just the files themselves and once confirmed these are copied to a folder in your chosen partition. A bootloader is then installed and once finished you can reboot into your new system. This will be a pristine system that requires you to save your session at shut down if you want to keep your settings. Once saving the session is complete, a pupsave file or folder is created. On you next boot your files and settings will be exactly as you left them at last shutdown.

Firstly, you should insert the USB drive that you want to use for installation. Again using the graphical partition manager GParted you need to make sure that there is a suitable partition on the USB drive. Note : not all Puppies support the f2fs filesystem. The installer is intelligent enough to know this. Again, you are prompted for the location of your boot media files either an iso image, optical media or just the files themselves and once confirmed these are copied to a folder in your chosen USB drive.

This can be booted on any computer you like! This is also a type of frugal installation.