Puppy Linux Discussion Forum:: View topic - How to remove Windows XP, run Puppy instead? (Solved) Puppy Linux Discussion Forum Puppy HOME page: 'THE' alternative forum: The time now is Fri 09 Feb 2018, 17:52 All times are UTC - 4 » » Moderators:,,:: Page 1 of 1 [14 Posts] Author Message ohmykomu Joined: 09 Sep 2015 Posts: 6 Posted: Wed 09 Sep 2015, 08:27 Post subject: How to remove Windows XP, run Puppy instead? (Solved) Subject description: From eeepc now running Slacko Hi, VERY new user here.

Just installed Slacko Puppy 5.7.0 non PAE on my eeePC s101 by using the windows installer.exe featured on the puppylinux website. Everything is working great, internet is running smoothly and such. Only problem is that I'd like to completely remove Windows XP from the computer(so little space, so many things), and I can't figure out how to do that. As far as I can tell everything is located in the sda1.

What I've done: Followed the instructions in the windows installer and installed slacko 5.7.0.NON-PAE Started it up and got internet working with frisbee. Looked at the sda1/2/3 - windows folder is in sda1, so is the slacko puppy folder. No idea how to proceed. Looked around on the forum and can't really find anything that applies. Note that the computer has NO CD/DVD drive, so whatever I need to do I can only use an usb if anything external is needed. The reason for why I chose to use the win.installer instead of usb was mainly - confusion.

I am not a tech-savvy gal when it comes to anything that's not adobe photoshop, sigh. If anyone can help me I'd be very happy! Flash Official Dog Handler Joined: 04 May 2005 Posts: 12762 Location: Arizona USA Posted: Wed 09 Sep 2015, 09:13 Post subject: I think that installing Puppy inside the Windows partition makes it difficult to then remove Windows. Probably the most direct and foolproof way to completely remove Windows would be to reformat the hard drive using Gparted, then reinstall Puppy from CD. I could be wrong. Ohmykomu Joined: 09 Sep 2015 Posts: 6 Posted: Wed 09 Sep 2015, 09:21 Post subject: Flash wrote: I think that installing Puppy inside the Windows partition makes it difficult to then remove Windows.

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Probably the most direct and foolproof way to completely remove Windows would be to reformat the hard drive using Gparted, then reinstall Puppy from CD. I could be wrong. Hi, as I said, I can't use a CD. Flash Official Dog Handler Joined: 04 May 2005 Posts: 12762 Location: Arizona USA Posted: Wed 09 Sep 2015, 09:27 Post subject: Sorry. Will the eeepc boot from a USB flash drive? OscarTalks Joined: 05 Feb 2012 Posts: 1669 Location: London, England Posted: Wed 09 Sep 2015, 09:30 Post subject: Hello ohmykomu, I have no experience of running Puppy via the Windows installer but I agree with Flash and think it will probably be awkward to remove XP from a Puppy that is running within it. There are lots of options and methods for installing Puppy to a USB flash drive so I would suggest you try that and see if you can get it to boot.

From there you can run gparted on your internal hard drive which will not be mounted (it needs to be unmounted). Format the whole drive as ext3 and flag it as 'boot' (with just a little bit as linux swap if you want). This wipes XP completely and leaves all the space for you to then go ahead and install Puppy on its own. You will also need to install grub or grub4dos bootloader but it is all available in the Puppy menu and quite easy to do really. Folks here will be happy to help if you get stuck anywhere along the way.