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So I just push back the NTFS by 1 GB and create an ext3 partition for Puppy Linux. (Note: make sure you have back up your important data if you are doing any partition resizing). If you are starting clean (which is the best), make sure the first partition is a Windows based partition (eg FAT16, FAT32, NTFS) as Microsoft Windows can only read from the first partition. Next create the Linux partitions giving about >5.5 GB for Ubuntu (more may be needed if you plan to update Ubuntu versions without clean installs, but I don’t have so much space to spare), about 1GB for Puppy. And finally a linux swap partition (about 128MB to 512MB). And you will have something like my USB drive partition configuration.<\/p>\n
You can install either Ubuntu first or Puppy Linux first. Either way ok. Though I have not tried it, if you install Puppy First, Ubuntu installer may spot the Puppy partition and include it in the GRUB configuration and solve all your headache. In my case, Ubuntu was already installed, and Puppy came in later, thus making the dual booting of Puppy and Ubuntu configuration a bit more difficult.<\/p>\n
Installing Puppy Linux<\/h3>\n
Boot up the Puppy Linux and install O\/S into the your thumb drive. Make sure that the booting is not installed into MBR (which was the default setting).<\/p>\n
If you boot up your pendrive now, you will only be able to boot into Ubuntu. So while still in Puppy Linux, navigate to the Ubuntu partition and goto the Grub folder and edit the grub.cfg (or menu.lst). Although the correct way was to create was to use a 40_custom config file and tail into grub.cfg because if Grub were to update (by gtub-mkconfig), any changes that you made would be lost. However I find doing editing the grub.cfg directly this way is simpler for me.<\/p>\n
\n \/boot\/grub\/grub.cfg\n<\/pre>\n<\/p>\n
If you are in Ubuntu itself, you will need to bring up the terminal and key in:<\/p>\n
\n sudo su\n\tgedit \/boot\/grub\/grub.cfg\n<\/pre>\n<\/p>\n
Navigate to the menu entry area and key in:<\/p>\n
\n\tmenuentry 'Puppy Linux' {\n\tset root = (hd0, x)\n\tchainloader +1\n }\n<\/pre>\n<\/p>\n
Where “x” is the partition number where your Puppy Linux was installed.<\/p>\n
Boot your USB flash drive and give the Puppy Linux entry a try and see if it will boot. If yes, congratulations! You have made your pendrive dual boot Puppy and Ubuntu Linux!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
How to dual boot Ubuntu and Puppy Linux in USB pendrive. It was actually rather easy although it took me a long while to figure it out. All along I was carrying two thumbdrive, one with Ubuntu Linux installed and the other with Puppy Linux. Why bring along so many Linux distros? Well, each has …<\/p>\n
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