1) It is Puppy: No update. The day after installing 5.7 there was a pop-up recommending I install a 5.7 to 5.7.1 service pack. So the mechanism does exist. Why not provide this for every upgrade? With recommended way of installing puppy "frugally" You just copy (3) files of next version. ...

I am missing something, or do I really have to start from scratch with every new release of Puppy? I see there are "deltas" in the distribution directories but how do you use them? This question arises because of the experience I am having with V5.7/5.7.1. I installed* 5.7 about a week ago...

Previously I reported the boot time was slashed if I removed the vmlinuz symbolic link from / in the Ubuntu partition. When I wanted to use Ubuntu I simply restored the link. Now I have found the Ubuntu doesn't need the link to boot since grub.cfg points at the actual vmlinuz kernel in /boot so I ha...

I've been away from Puppy for a couple of months but tried it again with the latest releases. "Searching for puppy files" on Lupu (5.2.8-005) is still affected in the way I described by the presence or absence of vmlinuz in an Ubuntu partition. However, neither Wary nor Racy (5.3) are affe...

Below are listings of the /initrd/tmp log files from a 'fast' boot and from a 'slow' boot. The only filesystem difference between the two is the presence of vmlinuz in / of Ubuntu partition sdb3 as a symlink to /boot/vmlinuz-3.0.0-12-generic . I have also tried a "dummy" vmlinuz in the Ubu...

"Who needs a utility? How difficult can it be to extract a file from an archive and then reinsert it?" Or so I thought before discovering cpio and having all my prejudices about unix confirmed and reinforced. An archive utility could be called "archive" but this is unix so let's ...

I could be wrong - I won't pretend I followed the init script in detail! The Searching for puppy files section of init starts at line 484 and some comments in the script make suspect it was looking for vmlinuz so I simply removed the symlink from the Ubuntu partition and the "Searching" ti...

Searching for puppy files is done in the init script. As far as I can make out it looks for vmlinuz and assumes it's found the puppy files when it finds vmlinuz. But Ubuntu (among many others) also uses vmlinuz and, in my case, it finds Ubuntu's vmlinuz and then gets very confused for a while becau...

Thanks for your input, guys. rhadon : The out-of-the-box syslinux.cfg contains: append initrd=initrd.gz pmedia=usbflash I just changed it from cd to usbflash and it does seem to work. However I tried putting it on the kernel line as you suggest. If anything it took longer to boot and I could hear it...

sfeeley : I used gparted to create the target partition and set it active. Puppy's installer reckoned this was ok so I didn't change it. But, the way see it, it is booting without any problem. The problem arises further down the line. And don't forget that it "searches" in only a second o...

As you suggested, booting with pfix=ram allowed me to use the puppy universal installer to install to sdc1. First, to change as little as possible, I didn't reformat the partition but just let the installer delete all the files and then copy in the puppy files from lupu_528.004.iso . Everything work...

I've tried pointing pupsfs directly at the file. It says Searching for puppy files... and then pausing , then Searching deeper...pausing . The good news is: This only takes a few seconds and then it continues, so it seems to be looking at the right device, nowhere else. But why look deeper than the ...

Thanks for the prompt reply, Rolf, but unfortunately pdev1=sdc1 doesn't help. I have tried it as a parameter during boot and I have tried it in syslinux.cfg . Either way it fails to speed up the Searching for puppy files phase, which still takes about 1 minute. If I remove pmedia=usbflash and just u...

Booting Lupu 5.2.8 on Dell desktop with 2GB. sda: 60 GB internal drive - sda1: Dell utility partition - sda2: XP Pro sdb: 250 GB external USB hard disk - sdb1: Data (NTFS 220 GB) - sdb2: Ubuntu (EXT3 20 GB) - sdb3: Linux swap sdc: 4 GB USB flash - sdc1: FAT32 with LUPU 5.2.8 "live CD" inst...