PSYCH486.HLP

From the applications menu in JWM (preferred), select "Puppy universal installer." This is because PsychOS486 is based on Slacko Puppy 5.3.1.

Choose the type of media you are installing PsychOS486 to. Most likely, you are going to want to choose the "Internal (IDE or SATA) hard drive" option.

Choose the [hard] drive you want to install PsychOS486 to.

GParted and other partition editors, for whatever reason, seem to currently be broken on PsychOS486; however, they are not needed as long as there is a partition already in existence that PsychOS486 does support and can simply just wipe all of the files instead of formatting. Notice the selected button in blue "Install Puppy to sda1:".

The option that was selected in the previous step. Because GParted is broke and the desired partition is formated already anyway, clicking "OK" signifies that the installer is to simply wipe out the contents of the previously selected partition, without formatting, and install PsychOS486 in their place.

This guide is to help you do a full installation of PsychOS486 and so the "Full" installation option is chosen.

Choose "Upgrade" if there is a newer release of PyshchOS486 but if installing for the first time, and are okay with wiping the contents of the selected partition in Step 04, select "Wipe".

After clicking "Wipe" in the previous step, you must wait for the installer to wipe the files on the selected partition.

The rc.update script gets executed, usually followed by what appears to be a finished installation since no windows have popped-up in a while. Do not be fooled. The installation is technically finished only after a Grub Howto-like text file and window shows up and do not skip the Grub setup process.

Some instructions on how to setup Grub will show up, but you can just close both of these windows and move on to the next step.

Select "Grub Legacy bootloader config" from the applications menu.

Select "simple" when the GRUBCONFIG window asks. These installation instructions assume a single GNU/Linux distribution install on a single partition, so "expert" is not needed.

Based on lots of testing with a few programs that use the framebuffer, I would just select "standard." Worse case scenario, just run 'xorgwizard' while in the console if something isn't loading right as this is not done for you first thing like on many other Puppy-based distros to help save resources for the i486DX users.

Assuming that you only have one partition on one hard drive, you probably are going to enter "/dev/sda1" when the Grub configuration wizard asks where to put the Grub files.

For whatever reason, the Grub configuration wizard thinks the "MBR" option for where to be installed might be "unsafe." I've not had problems with this.

If multiple hard drives are detected, including USB storage devices, a window will ask about installing Grub to other hard drives. You can leave this blank.

A "GRUB INSTALLATION SUCCESS" window should pop-up and just click "Ok". You are now done and can reboot the computer. I would remove the CD-ROM from the machine while it turns on to prevent it from booting off of the disc again.