sure move it where you think appropriate.

lol teddog said there would be more guys reading the project section than the beginner room that could help. many of the project goals are similar to puppy, getting a functional linux build on target machines that are not bleeding edge. So i figured lots of the inevitable mistakes I will make will h...

This is basically where I will rant and rave about my newbie problems trying to get this to work. Hopefully I can get some help and tips from you guys. Q:Why do this anyway? A:I wanted to learn, and like most I looked at the available options and through a mixture of hubris and ego I figured I could...

Project goals. Cockroach basic: The initial goal of the project is to produce a bare bones sd-micro bootable (through a usb adapter interface.) live version of Debian that's 100% compliant with modern Linux standards, with apt-get. Core packages would be stored in a separate partition on the same de...

So I am trying to cobble togeather my menu system and I figured - ncurses/curses can do everything I want (and more). But I cannot get the function keys to respond. #include <ncurses.h> int main() { int ch; initscr(); /* Start curses mode */ raw(); /* Line buffering disabled */ keypad(stdscr, TRUE);...

At the moment I would like to develop a system that was able to function on low powered device so it could be powered by battery. This is so I can use it when I go into areas with no access to electricity. I figured perhaps a Pi or a similar device (like the Begalboard or a intel atom board) would b...

gparted seems to be doing everything right, partitioned the card, fat32 and set the flag to boot. no problems, no errors, fdisk identifies it as being a bootable partition. it all seemed to be groovy, after a "heee heee shamo" was back to the keyboard. alas, my MC outburst must have angere...

You can try the suggetsed method from Sickgut here using dd command. http://foxyroxylinux.com/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=133 It is not linux general problem having working package without troubles. If you can boot Cat-0.41, or Light-Wheezy, Or Porteus-Wheezy you just need to do: apt-get update apt-get...

hi package manager said there is no package available. downloaded it from the website and surprise surprise its broken. (or I should say my distro is broken.. am installing the dependency now so hopefully it should work after that.) Thanks for the walk through - thats very helpful and explained alot...

http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch04s03.html.en might be as easy as to do cp debian.iso /dev/sdX sync this will overwrite contents on the card. There are several other possibilities, like using programs like "unetbootin" or maybe try the method described here: http://www.murga-...

can I ask how would I install this on a microsd? is there a command line option i can use from puppy/tool or will I need to use windows?

I found the bare-bones puppys, what one would you recommend to get the most updated kernel? 8) Just out of interest, does anyone have the full SD specs? I can only find the overview docs on the SD website. but It does not have things like timing info ect... I found a great book that explained many o...

Cheers mike & ted, first I agree puppy has a very supportive community and you guys are great. :) Will take a look but I could'nt get half the apps I wanted to work with puppy, I just seem to waste hours getting basic stuff to not work. What I wanted was a linux distro that ran in ram. didnt hav...

# fdisk /dev/sde Welcome to fdisk (util-linux 2.21.2). Changes will remain in memory only, until you decide to write them. Be careful before using the write command. Command (m for help): p Disk /dev/sde: 3951 MB, 3951034368 bytes 122 heads, 57 sectors/track, 1109 cylinders, total 7716864 sectors U...

I found wget to be very reliable, I use it for my not-trivial downloads.

I tend to think of it like the 357 magnum of download programs.

Heres a question, is DD what is going on 'under the hood' of the installers for puppy?

could I use it for say tinycore isos?

Hey semme yea - I don't know what crazy thing must have happened when i copy pasted the link from archive.org lol. How bizare! Cheers for the assist. Lets see if this works... https://ia700806.us.archive.org/18/items/byte-magazine-1979-05/1979_05_BYTE_04-05_Computer_Generated_Maps.djvu Thanks mike, ...

Hi, I couldn't find the add on for firefox, I guess its not compatible with my current version. *26.0.. and thats weird because I remember there was a add on for the previous versions... I would like a stand alone package. Mike if you could fix it for me to get that viewer I would be really grateful...

Hey Semme, [ https://archive.org/stream/byte-magazine-1976-07/1976_07_BYTE_00-11_Core_Memories.djvu I would like to view this collection of magazines on my computer, I have a highly unstable pdf viewer that causes macpup to crash more times than a zxspectrum + the size difference is why I want to us...

:cry: Just want to view Djvu files Searched the package manager and all there is is some run-time support widget, that did nothing (surprise surprise) :roll: . Found a package called djviewer but tried 3-4 different versions and none of them work (again surprise surprise) broken library's. now nothi...

Thing is ppm is a tool for a problem that was solved with apt-get already more effectively. I don't know if I am understanding the problem correctly but this is generally what I experience with ppm. search for an app, cannot find anything or its hopelessly out of date. update the database, you never...