Hi, Can anyone point me in the direction of a puppy with almost no applications. I want the smallest footprint (Megabytes) so I can load only those apps I use.
Thanks
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Thanks, My gut feeling is that I will need to concentrate on init within the initrd and rc.shutdown. Thanks for confirming there's nothing else Ive missed

Can you help me work out how to configure a USB boot with a multisession save? This is easy with a CD. My reasoning is that if I want to see the changes that have happened on each save, a multisession configuration allows this.

Thanks. I checked the ibiblio md5 against the ibiblio sfs and both checked out ok. To recreate the headers I mounted the sfs on Ubuntu and used mksquashfs on the mount point directly. The output was a v4 squashfs like the original. That version was mounted by lupu528 without complaint. Following the...

Solved: in the extlinux.conf I had to add pmedia=usbflash to delay the reading of the USB until it had settled. like append initrd=initrd.gz pmedia=usbflash pfix=copy Thanks for the suggestion it led me on the right path. I ended up with lupu528 which works with the USB 2 ports. The wifi worked once...

Thanks, That sorted the USB.

Wireless:

I am now trying to sort out a driver for the wireless card:
03:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Ralink corp. Device [1814:3290]

I think its otherwise known as a Ralink RT3290 wireless card.
Is there a driver for this in three headed dog?
Thanks

A usbstick which boots on an Acer 5535 (USB 2.0) is dropping out in the init script during ramdisk part of boot on a new HP ProBook 455. The BIOS is running the USB mbr, which gives me the boot menu. When I start lupu_528 booting, when it tries to load the lupu_528.sfs file, it fails and drops to an...

I want to have a single usb boot on many machines. So I want the running machine union fs to look like for machine A /initrd/Pup_rw / /initrd/pup_ro1 machine_a.sfs /initrd/pup_ro2 lupu_501.sfs And for machine B /initrd/Pup_rw / /initrd/pup_ro1 machine_b.sfs /initrd/pup_ro2 lupu_501.sfs Can I indicat...

Thanks I managed to see the files in each fs by cd /initrd/pup_rw and doing an ls -lR. As you say, seamonkey is a bit hungry in its cache. I also found the System > Boot Manager menu where I can specify additional sfs to load on boot. I've now got enough info to be able to clear out the caches from ...

Odd my gdmap on / or /dev/sda or /dev/sda1 or /dev/sdc1 etc errors, saying # gdmap /initrd/pup_rw ** Message: No such file or directory Any suggestions? Also for interests sake... PUPSTATE and mount show... # cat /etc/rc.d/PUPSTATE PUPMODE=7 PDEV1='sdc1' DEV1FS='ext2' PUPSFS='sdc1,ext2,/lupu-501.sfs...

Hi Pupmode is 7 Usb is a usb 2 device Is there a way of logging what is being written out? I am wondering if puppy is writing all my /initrd/pup_rw to the ext3 USB device each time I save. Thinking about it, if I move the contents of /initrd/pup_rw to a .sfs and load it on boot, the size of my pup_r...

I have puppy 5.2.5 on a USB stick. When I make a change to a 1 k long file and shutdown puppy, the save process appears to he writing huge amounts of data to the stick. The file system is AUFS joining a squashfs base puppy under the USB file system which comprises of individual files (not packed int...

Using Puppy Racy 5.2.2 I cannot work out how to divert some messages from /var/log/messages to a different file. I want to send the log output from the firewall iptables to a different file. I am trying pitch the output at a debug level so iptables -I INPUT -i eth0 -J LOG --log-level 7 I can find th...

Thanks, I'll try that OS and the boot options.
I am creating a read-only USB OS, so once its frozen I can be confident it doesn't get changed during a session.

Hi I am looking for the smallest ISO of Puppy. I want to boot quickly from a USB stick. I only need to use a web browser and wifi network. I am happy to install a browser and networking stuff myself from PETs. Should I be looking at a build which loads files from the USB on-demand? Any suggestions? R

The target OS is Ubuntu. 2.6.32 running on a netbook. I've set it up so usb puppy reverse tunnells through an eth0 connection to my server so I can restore a botched hard disk. I am protecting against a Ubuntu upgrade freezing the machine. I've been using ubuntu for years and once had an obscure gra...

Its an very old tried and tested utility, What It gives me are incremental backups and backups which span media. Also I don't have to copy its output into one place to restore. My situation is - my father lives in a remote location. I want to have a base backup at his location and to transfer small ...

Hi Guys,

Hope you can help. Where I can find a pet to install the unix dump/restore facility onto a puppy distro?

yvonne wrote:tried dpup and got wireshark 1.0.2 working fine instantly.
great!

Err booted dpup, opened package manager and in repository debian-lenny-main I found wireshark. Whilst downloading the dependencies it failed to download some. Has anyone had any success recently?
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Thanks, is that because it is compressed as small as it can be?