I'm wanting to put a mageia puppy on a i3, 4Gram on sda1 (23G of 1T) and found this page.

puppylinux.com/woof-ce.html31 which I noticed was copyright 2016.

So followed what was there until the terminal reached which is different from the page

Woof builds a Puppy based on the binary packages from another distro.
We sometimes refer to this as the "compat-distro".

1 arch
2 debian
3 devuan
4 mageia
5 pet-based
6 scientific
7 slackware
8 t2
9 trisquel
10 ubuntu
Type number of compat-distro:

Terminal only gave 2 options. 1 Slackware and 2 ubuntu

Typing in 4 the terminal selected ubuntu

Distinctly not what I wanted.

It is mentioned, further down the google page that "not all are tested working."

So I'm wondering if it is possible to make a mageia puppy? and if so how?

I've used Mageia for several years and have grown to rather like it. So I must ask, what is a "mageia puppy"?

@frankbell:-

Frank, I would guess the OP is referring to the way in which the re-vamped Woof-CE build-system (which is what is used to build modern Puppies) takes the ISO file of a mainstream distro, will use the binary files from the OS itself to 'construct' a 'Puppy' based on that distro, and will also connect to that distro's repos and use them to 'build-in' a selection of lightweight apps from those repos.

The whole kit & caboodle is then re-mastered as a brand-new Puppy. Having entered the required parameters (source, URLs, etc.), the build-system then carries out & completes this process 100% automatically, presenting you, at the end, with an ISO file, ready to 'burn' to CD/DVD/USB.

This is the page to which quickbreakfast is referring.

--------------------------------------------------

To the best of my knowledge, no-one has ever attempted this with Mageia. Ubuntu is used as one popular base, because of the sheer availability of software.....and Slackware as the other popular base, due to its extreme stability. (This is why I have always preferred the 'Slacko' Puppies for a 'daily driver'; they just 'work', and as mentioned, are very, very stable.)

You use Slackware yourself, so I believe you can in all likelihood relate to what I'm saying.....


Mike.

Thanks, Mike, but I'm really interested in OP's take on this. Terms need to be defined.

I would like to built/use a puppy that based itself on Mageia.

I tried following the above link,but it seems that is not possible..... Well not at my level of skill.

Do you mean like a Mageia-based "Puppy Linux"?